Getting close to Christmas!  Shopping is almost done (just need a trip to Joann’s now!) and I got my sewing projects done last night!  This was just a quick project that my sister-in-law gave me the idea for because she said my nieces both want hooded towels so I jumped at the idea.  I purchases regular sized towels with matching hand towels at target and some fleece at Joann’s earlier this month.

I cut the hand towels in half and made them into hoods, then attached them and cut out the girls’ names from the fleece, appliqueing that on with a blanket stitch on the machine (that was a first and it came out okay.  I hope the girls like them.  I wanted to add flowers applique’d on too, however I realized while doing the names how hard it was to go ‘around’ instead of in straight lines so it didn’t happen last night.

One for Emily 🙂 - The towel is actually light pink, not white as the picture shows.

And one for Finley!

Can’t wait for the girls to get them on Saturday!  I had high hopes of making embroidered burp cloths for my nephew HOWEVER the universe conspired against me.  I couldn’t find the burp cloths (gerber cloth diapers) ANYWHERE – babysrus only had their brand which were gauze and gerber ones that were already decorated.  Target only had the gauze ones!  Failure!