How to sew a bathrobe from a towel?

Any mother would like her beloved baby after a bath to run around the house in a charming, warm, comfortable robe. But, unfortunately, modern stores are not at all pleased with the presented assortment and unreasonably high prices. The cost of the finished product compared to its tiny size and quality of unknown origin is really too high. It is much cheaper to purchase several high-quality terry towels, to understand how to sew a baby bathrobe from towels with your own hands. This article will describe how to make bathrobes for a baby no older than one and a half years.

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How to make a simple baby bathrobe on your own?

If you decide to sew a baby bathrobe from a towel with your own hands, a pattern in this case will suit both ready-made and home-made. But first of all, start preparing all the necessary tools, materials and take care of preparing the main fabric.

To work you will need:

• Two quality towels, size 37 by 60 cm.
• A piece of cotton dense braid 3.5 m long and 2 cm wide.
• Sharp scissors.
• Threads in the color of the main material.
• Tailor's meter.
• Safety pins.

Sewing a bathrobe from towels is quite simple according to the following pattern:

• Thoroughly wash towels and cotton tape to check how stable the paint is, whether the new robe will then shed.
• Fold the first towel in half, cut it.
• Fold the second towel four times, mark the center on it. Fold it again, only already in half, cut to the center, make a small cutout right in the center. It will be a hole for the neck.
• Lay the cut towels on the table. Then put half of the first towel face to face on a towel with a neckline.

Important! Keep the raw edge aligned with the bottom edge.

• Sew with tailor pins, backing 1 cm from the edge of the stitch. Do the same with the opposite side.
• Continue from the neckline to the cut line directly through the sewn section.
• Fold the blank in half, cut off the material for making the sleeves so that they become as narrow as possible.
• Sew the edges with a zigzag seam or overlock.
• Sew the side seams and the bottom of the sleeves. At the same time, loops from the braid for the belt should be sewn into the side seams.
• Cut 1.5 meters of braid, fold in half, iron. We will use it to process the edges of the robe.
• Sew the tape to the edges, starting from the neck to the hem, around the perimeter and again to the neck.
• Cut the remaining braid into two parts, sew the cuts together to make it twice as wide. The result is a belt.
• Thread the belt into the loops.

The robe is ready!

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DIY baby bathrobe with a hood

This master class will be no less useful for any mother, because in it we will tell you how to sew a baby bathrobe from a towel with the addition of a hood. To do this, it is not at all necessary to be a cutter or a seamstress. Follow these tips, and then everything will work out.

It is necessary to prepare such materials:

• Half a meter of fabric.
• A large bath towel.
• A sweatshirt or dress that sits freely on your baby.

A step-by-step instruction is as follows:

• To begin, fold the towel four times.Lay it out on a flat surface, place a T-shirt or dress on top so that the central point of the collar clearly coincides with the central angle of our towel, the sleeves are located in the direction of its open side.
• Around the T-shirt or dress, cut the fabric, leaving 15 cm in a circle. Nothing should be cut from above so far. Cut the sleeves around the bottom.
• Open the towel, lay flat on the surface, then cut the front part right in the middle.
• Using two cut pieces, make a hood. Try it on the baby right away to mark the required height.

Important! If at the time of sewing it is not possible to make a measurement, it is better to measure the distance from the back of the head to its crown in advance.

• Measure the width of the hood, divide the resulting figure by 4, then attach it to the robe.
• To form a neckline, fold the robe four times, carefully measure the required distance (the fourth part of the width of the hood), at the same time cut 4 layers.
• Using pins, pin the hood to the neck you just created, sew it on.
• With pins, connect the robe under your hands and sew.
• The base of the product is ready. It's time to finish. Here you can show your own imagination at full power.
• Cut strips of fabric 12 cm wide, then they sew the edges of the hood and the gown itself.
• Cut two squares from the same material using patterned scissors.

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So, having spent only a couple of hours of time, having studied a simple master class that tells you how to sew a bathrobe from a towel, you will end up with a very worthy accessory for your child. It will help him to feel comfortable and comfortable after taking a bath.