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Puppy Hooded Towels for Brothers

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May 21, 2012 by Kendra 15 Comments

A dear friend of mine is adopting a newborn baby boy and words cannot express how excited I am for her and her husband!   They have a little 31/2 yr old boy that they are in the process of adopting also.    When I heard the church family was  having  a baby shower for them  I immediately decided I wanted to make something for both boys.  Big brother, little brother style.

After spending some time on Pinterest,  I found my inspiration. You can click here to see my inspiration.

The first thing I needed to do was make a trip to the store. Here is what I bought.

2 tan bath towels, 1 tan hand towel and 1 dark brown hand towel, and 3 wash cloths. Total cost- $21

I started by making baby’s towel.  I took the first bath towel and cut off the ends as shown.

Then I rolled and pinned the end, then stitched it. Basically I just shortened the towel a little bit.

Next I took the tan  hand towel and cut it in half, so I had 2 nearly square pieces.

I took one half and used it to make a triangle across one corner of the towel. Then I cut off the extra that is shown folded in, so I just had a triangle piece.

Next I cut the dark brown hand towel in half the long way.

With one half of the hand towel I cut out 4 ears. I sewed 2 together, flipped it so the stitching was inside and top-stitched on the outside so the ears would lay flat.

Then I zig-zag stitched the ends so they didn’t unravel.

Next I cut up the wash cloths to make eyes, nose, spot and tongue. For the tongue I used 2 pieces and stitched it like I did the ears.

The next step was to sew all the pieces on. I used the zig-zag stitch again.  On the nose where the black thread comes down to the tongue, I used a black sharpie to make it all black so you couldn’t see color peeping out.

At the corner of the bath towel I pinned the ears.

I put the puppy face, face-down on the ears, pinned and stitched it.

Turned and top-stitched, here is the result for baby. Is it cute or is it CUTE???  *insert wild happy dance!*

Time to start on big brothers hooded towel. This one was a little more tricky.

Just like with baby’s towel I used the wash cloths to cut out eyes, nose, spot and tongue. The ears were cut out of the other half of the dark brown hand towel.  I don’t know if you can see it very well but the hood of this is the other half of the first hand towel that we cut in half, and I folded it part-way back.

Because the nose part hangs off the front I cut two pieces for it.

Here the 2 pieces are stitched together and the tongue (done just like the tongue and ears for baby) is suck in the hole and I set the black nose on top.

Here it is after I stitched it all together.

The next step was to pin and stitch it to the hood part. I left half of it hanging off as shown here.

Next step was to zig-zag stitch the spot and eyes down. You can also see, how I again used a sharpie to blacken the color showing up in the black stitching.

I folded the towel back like I had it at first,  pinned the ears in and top stitched it.

Next I folded the hood inside out, rounded the top a little and zig-zag stitched it together.

Here is the stitched result.

Here is the finished hood. Now to put it on the towel.

I wanted a pleat in the towel so I used a pin to mark the center of the top of the towel and made one pleat.

I then pinned the hood, face down on the towel. Lining the seam in the back of the hood to the pin I used to mark the center of the towel. Then I sewed it together.

So here is big brother’s towel. I don’t think it turned out quite as cute as the first one though.

Another picture of big brothers towel.

All told, I am very happy with how they turned out. For a girl who doesn’t necessarily “love” to sew I am very pleased!

And hopefully I didn’t completely bore you with all the pictures. 🙂

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Respectful opinions are always welcome

  1. Jessi @ PracticallyFunctional says

    May 21, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    These are just adorable! You’re so talented for someone who doesn’t love to sew 🙂

    Reply
    • Kendra says

      May 21, 2012 at 8:18 pm

      I’ve been sewing since I was younger than 10 yrs old and my mom is a fantastic seamstress, so that may have a lot to do with it 🙂

      Reply
  2. Billie says

    May 21, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    Too cute!! I always make hooded towels for baby gifts, but this dog one is simply too adorable! Great job!!

    Reply
  3. Amber @ MostWhatMatters says

    May 22, 2012 at 1:29 am

    My boys would love this! Thanks for the idea and for linking up with me today!

    Reply
  4. Sue@housepretty says

    May 22, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    Wow!!! I am impressed, really impressed. That took a pile of work!!!

    Reply
    • Kendra says

      May 22, 2012 at 1:37 pm

      It took about 3 hrs Sue so I really think it went fast. It would have been done quicker if I hadn’t been taking pictures 🙂

      Reply
  5. Sarah@Naptime Delights says

    May 22, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    This is so cute and look so much cozier than the baby towels you can buy! I’d love you for to share this project on my new Link Party:
    http://naptimedelights.blogspot.ca/2012/05/document.html

    – Sarah @ http://www.naptimedelights.blogspot.com

    Reply
    • Kendra says

      May 22, 2012 at 6:29 pm

      Thanks! I just might! 🙂

      Reply
  6. britt says

    May 22, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    you did SUCH a good job! you are so talented! i wish i knew how to sew! It’s so cute!

    Reply
  7. Ashley @ The Latest Find says

    June 4, 2012 at 2:53 pm

    Hi! Thanks for visiting and following at The Latest Find! Now following your site as well, I love the towels, so cute! Congrats to your friends! =)

    Reply
    • Kendra says

      June 4, 2012 at 3:16 pm

      Thanks!

      Reply
  8. Jessi says

    June 6, 2012 at 12:21 pm

    I know you already saw the feature over at my blog but I just wanted to say again that this project is AMAZING! Thanks so much for linking it up, and I pinned it today too so I can make some whenever I’ve got some little kids running around 🙂

    Reply
  9. Susie at Earning-My-Cape says

    January 21, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    LOVE this! So cute! What a wonderful gift! Congrats to your friends!

    I will be featuring your Puppy Towels at my Super Link Party on Wednesday!
    (Can you send me your blog button link? My screen is still broken, and I’m having a hard time finding your button. lol Thanks!)

    Reply
  10. Peg Husted says

    August 1, 2018 at 2:49 pm

    Do you have pattern so I can print out for the face eyes ears and snout

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    • Kendra says

      August 11, 2018 at 11:26 am

      I didn’t make a pattern for it really. Just free handed it on paper until I was pleased with how it looked. Sorry, I know that’s not real helpful.

      Reply

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