One of my students wanted to make some hoods for her grand daughters.
They are really easy to make.
You can embellish them in many different ways or simply use a printed towel. Beach towels with fun prints make great hoods.
The number of hoods you can get per towel depends on the size of the towel and how efficiently you place the pattern.
Fold the towel in half lengthwise.
Place the hood with the front opening in line with the finished edge of the towel.
If you don’t have a hood to work from, use the hood of a hoodie as a guide.
Add a seam allowance.
Sew the seam. Sew on a button and loop. We used a french seam.
We also did the applique before sewing the seam.
For the applique we cut out the ladybugs and flowers from one of Kathy’s scraps of fabric.
We used fusible bonding and ironed the pictures onto the hood before doing the satin stitches.
The top thread was black and white for the bobbin. I tightened the top tension slightly to create the shading.
Three hoods completed.