Panda Hooded Towel Tutorial

We have a sweet new baby in our family and there’s no better way to celebrate than by making a darling hooded towel! Surprise Staci! Don’t tell baby Sawyer…I’m sending it soon! I put together this little Panda Hooded Towel Tutorial for anyone who wants to make one too!

A couple of weeks ago, my family and I went to see the new Kung Fu Panda movie and ever since, my kids have been on a panda and Kung Fu kick! 🙂 So, of course, we had to try out a panda hooded towel and I think it turned out super cute! Here’s how to make one:

Panda Hooded Towel Tutorial

Supplies needed:

• 1 white bath towel
• 1 white hand towel
• 1 black washcloth
• scaps of white and black fabric
• Thermoweb Heat’n Bond Lite Iron-on Adhesive-17″X45″ (affiliate link)
• white and black thread
• sewing machine
• Panda Hooded Towel Pattern Pieces

First of all, cut your white hand towel like the picture below. one piece will be for the hood of the towel and the other piece will be used for the snout of the panda.

Print out the pattern pieces and cut out all your pattern pieces from fabric…

…and from pieces of towel fabric. Attach the Heat’n Bond to the fabric pieces according to the package directions.

Then grab your hood piece and fold it about 3 inches under.

And then sew straight across. Set this piece aside.

Put the two snout pieces together and sew around the bottom curved piece leaving the top straight edge open.

And then turn right side out.

Then put two of the ear pieces together, sew around the top, leaving the straight bottom open. Do the same with the other two ear pieces.

Then turn the two ear pieces right side out.

Next, put your nose piece on the snout piece. Iron (according the the Heat’n Bond’s directions) and then use a tight zig zag stitch to attach it down.

Place it on your hood piece where you think it looks good…

And attach it using a tight zig zag stitch.

Next attach your eyes and eye patches (according the the Heat’n Bond’s instructions).

And use a tight zig zag stitch to go around each piece. I had to switch my thread between black and white quite a few times.

Then lay your ears on the towel and make two small slits where the ears should go.

Insert the ears into the slits and sew them to the hood from the back side of the hood, as shown below.

And here is the hood, almost finished.

Fold the hood in half, as shown, and sew straight across the unfinished top.

Then open up the hood like this.

Sew a straight line across the top part. Making a little triangle.

And cut that little triangle off.

Now all we have to do is attach the hood to the the towel. Line up the center of the hood with the center of the towel and pin. Pin all along the edge of the hood. About an inch from each end of the hood you can see where I added a little fold in the towel. This is to help the towel stay on the little one’s head a little bit better. Then just sew along the pinned edge.

And its all finished! Oh, how I love hooded towels on kids! They are just so cute!

If you liked this Panda Hooded Towel Tutorial, you can find my other darling hooded towel tutorials below!

• Polar Bear Hooded Towel
• Fox Hooded Towel
• Yoda Hooded Towel
• Bear Hooded Towel

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!