Princess Hooded Towel from Crazy Little Projects

 The talented Amber from Crazy Little Projects is here today with a sewing tutorial for you all.

Hello! This is Amber from Crazy Little Projects
happy to share a tutorial with you today while Allison snuggles her
little Sadie! In honor of Sadie’s birth I thought it would be fun to do a
baby themed, girly girl post, so today I am giving you…a Princess
Hooded Towel Tutorial!

Now first you should know that I have no little girls, just 4 little boys around these parts. And yes, that’s my youngest modeling the hooded towel. He was ever so happy to do that. Give him a few years and he won’t want to have a thing to do with princesses!

 I do a monthly hooded towel on my blog-everything from frogs and monkeys to pink bunnies and sharks, but I think this is the first one I’ve done that’s not an animal. I’ve had a lot of readers request a princess towel though, so I finally went for it.

 

 

Supplies Needed:

Instructions:
I have instructions to construct the actual hooded towel part on my blog, today I am going to show you how to make the crown and attach it to the hood. Please refer to my hooded towel post for help with the rest.

As I explain in my full hooded towel post, I start by cutting the hand towel in half horizontally, so that I have a short and fat piece to work with. I think fold the front under about 3 inches and sew it in place.

Now, cut out 2 yellow pieces for the crown using the pattern pieces provided (note that I am giving you patter pieces that are slightly smaller than what I used in the images here. I felt like the crown was a little too big.
Sew the crown all the way around but leave one side open to turn it: 

 

Turn it right side out.

 Cut out your little jewel pieces from the fabric AND from the paper backed adhesive. Iron them in place on your crown and then applique around them:

 

Now, take your half of the hand towel and zigzag it down the back edge to form the hood:

 

Now take your crown and pin it so that each edge is on the hood but the crown part goes around the forehead. To do this I actually put the hood on my head and went and looked in the mirror to get the placement right. It will just be attached at the two sides. Remember of course that your head will be a little bigger than your princess. Ideally you can use your princess’s head to figure out the sizing, but if not, use your own.

 Pin it in place on either side and then sew a straight line on either end of the crown. On the end of the crown that is still open, fold the edge under BEFORE you sew and this will close the opening AND sew the crown in place. 

  

Then just sew your hood to your towel and you’re all set! 

See more hooded towels (as well as lots of other crazy little projects) over at my blog:

Thanks for sharing this cute hooded towel Amber!