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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These are just adorable! You’re so talented for someone who doesn’t love to sew 🙂
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 🙂
Too cute!! I always make hooded towels for baby gifts, but this dog one is simply too adorable! Great job!!
My boys would love this! Thanks for the idea and for linking up with me today!
Wow!!! I am impressed, really impressed. That took a pile of work!!!
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 🙂
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
Thanks! I just might! 🙂
you did SUCH a good job! you are so talented! i wish i knew how to sew! It’s so cute!
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! =)
Thanks!
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 🙂
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!)
Do you have pattern so I can print out for the face eyes ears and snout
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.