Hooded Towels. I love them. Emma has two of them, but she's getting to be too big for them. I spent a bunch of time looking around to see if I could buy bigger ones and then realized it would be much easier to just make my own. Emma now has two big hooded towels and with time she'll grow into them. The first one I made is the one on the right. I was mostly happy with how it turned out, just a few tiny complaints here and there, but not too bad. The second one I made... wow. It was kinda frustrating. I spent 15 minutes trying to change the needle in my machine because I needed to use a heavier-duty needle for this towel. I still don't know what I ended up doing differently, but after 15 long minutes I got it. Then it was super easy... except that some how my white thread went missing. A little swap for some gray thread and I called it close enough. The pink towel that I used (on the left) is actually a towel that I already had, that I think I used my freshman year at college. It's mostly just been sitting around, so I decided I would put it to use.
Emma was sleeping, but I wanted to show a little about how it looks on an actual person. Turns out I'm too big for the towel, and it's hard to take a picture of yourself with a hooded towel on.
Still not perfect, but hey... they are functional, and I did them all by myself!
And my next project is a dinosaur hooded towel for Emma's friend who turns three next week. We'll see how that one turns out...
2 comments:
You are just getting so crafty! Great job! My little one uses hooded towels that were given to Princess when she was born 17 years ago. I guess it's time to replace them...
Sandy
Love it, and it looks like you're becoming a pro with that sewing machine! Sorry about the needle mishap. I pretty much have the exact same experience but with the bobbin whenever I have to fill it with new thread. I'll fiddle with it, fiddle with it more, and fiddle on it again -- then one minute it will finally 'work' and I'll have no idea why or what I did. C'est la vie!
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