Sew cute!

The Inspiration

Alexander received a towel for one of his baby showers that was fleece on the outside and terrycloth on the inside. It has a hood and is super warm and snuggly! We use it every time we go swimming, and when he was a teeny tiny babe we used to use it to keep him warm while we would have a quick hot tub after our swims. It works great as 2-in-1 towel and blanket, the towel dries him off and the blanket with the hood keeps him warm! After receiving my first sewing machine for Christmas, and finding a super easy hooded towel pattern I decided to put my creative skills to work and try to make one of my own. The hooded towel pattern I found was a little more basic than what I wanted my final product to be so I just did a few modifications to the pattern and voila! 

I found the pattern on pinterest (duh, of course I did) and I used my own inspiration from the green towel above to turn it into a towel blanket. The pattern is from a blog that made it super simple to sew the hood! I started by purchasing terry cloth, fleece and a cotton accent fabric. I purchased double what I would need because I wanted to make one as a gift! The fabric turned out to be ALOT more expensive than I had anticipated and hindsight I could probably buy this darn towel cheaper than I made it for! But nevertheless this is a project for me to learn from. Another idea might be to go to walmart or some similar store and buy towels on clearance to save money on the terrycloth portion. Anyway back to my sewing, I then cut the fleece and terrycloth in the same measurements and sewed them together! Afterwards I followed the pattern on the blog I mentioned above to create the hood and simply attached the hood to my towel blanket! Im sure a pillow would have been more challenging than this project but I have a lot more use for this one so there you have it! Below is my finished product!

My hooded towel blanket

I think he likes it