How To Make A Towel Wrap With Straps

This guide is a pace-by-step sewing tutorial on how to make a towel wrap camouflage that's cute and cozy, and a hair drying shower cap sometimes as well called "twist up hair towel" or "DIY turbie twist". The towel wrap can be as well used as a beach towel wearing apparel.

This is one of the best gifts you can sew for the holidays! Who doesn't want a beautiful comfortable towel wrap set?

Make it for yourself or for your kids. These instructions are good not merely for a women's size – you tin make a child's towel cover-up likewise. I don't think yous can make a towel wrap without sewing – you lot will need a sewing machine and some basic sewing skills, but this projection is really easy fifty-fifty for a beginner sewist.

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How to make a towel wrap plus a head wrap pattern

You can buy atowel wrap set (mostly online, I think). They are pretty cheap and the choice is large. They come up in a diverseness of colors, sizes, lengths, and designs and look actually nice in photos.

Simply read what people are maxim afterwards they buy those sets.

This towel is microfiber. It's sticky and not absorbent.

Ordered every bit a gift since it had a matching caput wrap. I was very embarrassed as this is scratchy and feels horrible to the bear on.

Other than the softness of the towel wrap, which is fleece (and 100% nonabsorbent) and not fifty-fifty towel material, this is a horrible product. The caput wrap gets fuzzies stuck in my pilus even later on a vigorous milkshake, and falls off my head. The Velcro used on the wrap is scratchy and no matter what I practice it scratches my skin so desperately I am left with marks.

Very poorly fabricated.

The head wrap material is very scratchy and the elastic band that is intended to fasten it is too pocket-size to fit the material through. It is also only hanging on past a thread. The actual wrap is nice simply the Velcro strips are poky and scratch your skin. I do not recommend this detail.

The pilus wrap is awful. Information technology has a tiny, tiny piece of rubberband that you're supposed to put the end of the wrap through. It ripped right off on the first utilize. Practise not buy this.

I detest the feeling and the fuzz comes off on you when yous wrap upward in it.

When the description read "Microfiber towel," it should have read "fleece." This isn't going to absorb anything after a shower, it's going to be like wearing a blanket. As well, I wear betwixt a size medium and large and it JUST fits me to the betoken where I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing it for more than walking to the shower and correct to get inverse. The hair wrap is actually cheaply made but will probably absorb improve than the "towel" will.

And all these complaints go on and on and on.

Of course, you lot tin can avoid all these problems if yous buy a $300 dollars (and up) set. But I know a improve fashion – stitch the towel wrap dress yourself. And then y'all can make it exactly as you like from the fabric of your choice and in the size you need.

As you will see beneath, it's quite easy to sew this set, and most importantly – it'southward then useful!

Recently I was traveling for two months and this prepare was absolutely perfect after taking a shower. It's also very user-friendly to use by the pool, in the spa, in the gym locker room. Information technology's perfect to have while doing all your daily skincare routines.

It provides plenty of coverage, doesn't fall down and the elastic at the top and Velcro closure create a flattering fit. I like also the ease of slipping this towel dress on and off.

The hair wrap is so much improve than a regular towel, information technology speedily absorbs moisture and would work on thick, long hair as well as brusk. It doesn't fall off your head because a push and an rubberband loop make it easy to keep in place. Because the loop is rubberband information technology holds the tail much more firmly and comfortably. It's a good alternative to a plastic shower cap.

The ready launders really well. It also looks skilful! I like my domicile wearing apparel to be not but convenient and practical but also beautiful.

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What volition you need to make the towel wrap dress and the shower cap?

i. Beginning of all, you volition need a towel made of terry cloth. Towels tin can accept different thickness. For this project, choose one that'due south not very heavy and dense. I think the best is to utilise a beach towel – information technology'south usually bigger (and so one towel volition be enough for the towel wrap encompass-up and for the head wrap) and thinner than regular bath towels.

Choose only a towel made of 100% cotton fiber. It's comfy, breathable, soft fabric. It doesn't irritate the skin. I would never make a towel wrap from synthetic fibers!

Of course, yous can make towel wrap set from yardage of terry cloth also.

ii. A piece of wide elastic to insert at the tops of the robe. And a small piece of regular thin elastic to make a loop for a button.

three. One button

4. A pattern for the cap with seam allowances around half an inch (see drawing below)

5. Regular sewing tools and notions (like a sewing car, threads, scissors, needles, etc.)

Tips for working with terry cloth

This projection is a fast and easy sewing project even for a beginner sewist. You will have to brand only a few seams full – no complicated patterns, no darts, no sleeves, no collars, no lining, right?

Simply sewing terry fabric fabric can be tricky – you will need to have in mind some special considerations for working with terry textile to complete the project successfully and non to ruin your expensive computerized sewing car.

And so follow my recommendations below and you volition be fine.

Any terry fabric (even the all-time quality ane) is bound to shed after cutting and during sewing. The fibers will automatically cling themselves to the rest of your towel, resulting in what seems like eternal shedding.

So if you don't want flying fibers from the towel keep your lint roller or a vacuum cleaner handy and make clean the cutting tabular array right away. I don't use my full-size vacuum cleaner – for this, I take a lower-powered handheld model similar this in the image below.

Or take the cutting pieces outdoor and shake them well to become rid of whatever loose fibers.

You tin also put your finished towel wrap in a dryer on air fluff or other no heat setting (for 2 – v minutes) with a dryer canvas, which will aid to remove some loose fibers that are left during sewing.

Merely on the other hand, sewing as a process, in general, is messy, right? I am sure you agree with me if y'all sew. All these cutting fabric pieces, threads, different needles, patterns, rulers, etc. accept to be on the tabular array around yous (where else?) and then the shedding of this terry cloth fabric is just a minor effect really ( compare to the shedding of faux fur, for example).

I'd like to add that because of the amount of lint that comes off of terry cloth, information technology's necessary to clean out your sewing auto after you're done with the fabric. A lot of build-ups occur with this fabric. By cleaning it out you volition have fewer possible thread jams.

Because of this shedding, you must stop or enclose all raw edges (with a serger or a regular sewing machine).

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Cull proper threads, needles, and sewing machine settings.

You may need to utilise a thicker sewing machine needle (like universal size 100/sixteen, but 90/14 can be practiced also), thicker and stronger threads because the seams on terry fabric can exist bulky. Increment besides your stitch length. Test your setting on a chip slice of terry cloth and accommodate as necessary.

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When sewing, try to apply tissue newspaper on top of the towel, it'due south not necessary of grade and sometimes non even possible but information technology will make sewing easier. Information technology would exist even amend to use clear h2o-soluble stabilizer for ease of removal after stitching but if you don't accept it it'south ok to use but tissue paper.

How to make a beach robe from towels – step-by-footstep tutorial

1. Mensurate the desired width of your towel wrap and cutting one edge. How to mensurate for the towel wrap? You can measure out it past wrapping the towel around and making sure y'all have a good overlap at the front.

If necessary cut too the length if you want to make the robe smaller. I didn't cut the length – I used the store bought beach towel and I like the length as it was.

2. Cut 2 pieces for the shower wrap cap using the free pattern (see the drawing upward).

3. Finish the cut edge on the towel wrap. The best style is to fold the edge over, baste information technology and and so fold over again and run up in identify.

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iv. I recall the easiest mode to sew an elastic at the top of the robe is to make a casing for a wide elastic to go in. The casing has to exist a piddling bit wider than the elastic width. Measure your elastic first. I used an elastic 1 ¼ inch wide and I think this is a perfect size.

If it will be smaller the robe may fall down (because the terry cloth fabric is heavy when wet), and if it will exist bigger you lot volition take problem inserting information technology. Also, choose an rubberband that's not very thin and flimsy.

Fold over the tiptop edge for the casing.

v. I usually insert an elastic with a condom pin. So, identify a condom pin at the one end of your elastic and pull the rubberband through until you reach the other opening. Measure your chest line (I measure it right on the person I want it to fit, of course), cut the elastic according to the measurement but make certain it'due south not going to slip back through.

Run up in place on both ends first and trim the rubberband off at both edges. You have to continue the rubberband band from twisting after you start wearing it if yous don't want to notice yourself frustrated. I usually stitch up the areas where the rubberband can become tangled – run up forth the sides of the towel dress and the center dorsum. This will help to keep the elastic stay in place.

six. Sew together Velcro strips. I adopt non to brand it long (4 inches is the perfect size). You don't demand to consider different sizes because you are making the towel wrap for a specific person and you lot have the measurements.

Only you accept to make sure it doesn't scratch your skin. It will aid besides if yous put the softer part of the Velcro (chosen loops) on the within edge of the correct front and the scratchy part (called hooks) on the outside border of the left front because if it touches your skin it won't hurt yous.

Also, I utilise a little bit of sewing glue to attach the Velcro strips before I sew them. The glue will keep them in identify very well.

7. I also put a slice of ribbon to easily hang the towel wrap on a claw.

Basically, that'due south it with the towel wrap cover-up.

I left my towel wrap unembellished. But you can personalize it equally yous similar. You tin can make a towel wrap with straps, you tin add together pockets, embroidery, appliques, beautiful trims.

At present let'southward make the hair drying shower cap.

After I made mine, I decided to change the pattern a little scrap. I had a modest problem finishing the cap's acute corner (check out my tutorial on finishing astute corners easily – you volition beloved it!) because I had the seam in the eye which made the corner bulky. So I advise you to make information technology rounded as you lot meet in the pattern (not in the images beneath).

8. Sew together the centre seam and end the raw edge.

But before stitching insert a slice of thin elastic (mine was four mm) at the stop of the seam (most ⅝ in from the end) to make a loop for a button closure. I used a pin to agree it in place.

If you have a serger, finish the seams with it, merely if you don't have one it'south not a problem – end the seams with one of decorative stitches of your sewing car.

9. Finish the hem – fold over about half an inch and run up.

10. Sew a button – cull ane that is not likewise small (mine was i inch in diameter).

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Use this pilus wrap for drying hair, conditioning pilus, coloring hair, facial cleansing, shower, sauna, hot tab.

The towel wrap set is ready!

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