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We need these Harry Potter hooded towels to take on vacation to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter!

DIY Harry Potter Hooded Towels Tutorial

Learn how to make awesome Harry Potter hooded towels. Easy sewing tutorial or buy one if you're not craftily inclined. Great for vacations to Potterland.

Supplies 

Instructions

  • Pre-wash your towels and scarf fabric.
  • Cut out black glasses, a yellow lightening bolt scar, and yellow snitch. I used my Cricut Explore to do this. With the included program you can use any image to make a cutting design. If you don’t have a cutting machine you can also just trace your design off of your computer screen or print of your design and cut it out like a stencil.
  • Iron your towels to remove moisture.
  • Iron your vinyl onto your towels. See my how to use iron-on vinyl post if you have never used it before.
  • For the hood fold one long edge over about 1 inch and place your glasses above the folded edge and the the scar above that. Unfold your towel before yo press it. I did this on my heat press with a piece of cardboard underneath but if you use a home iron I recommend doing it on the floor so you have better leverage.
  • Iron your snitch onto your towel edge.
  • Fold the long edge on the vinyl side up 1 inch and sew into place. The edge of the towel should be right below the glasses.
  • Fold in half and cut down to the right depth of the hood. For mine own I had to remove 4 inches. For my kiddo’s I removed 4 inches from the depth (opposite edge of the glasses) and then 3 inches from the bottom edge/height (where the neck line would be). I have found that not all hand towels are created equally so you might want to compare the hood of a sweatshirt with your towel to get a good size.
  • Serge or sew and finish with a zig zag stitch the back edge of your hand towel to form the hood.
  • Iron the long edges of your scarf under 1/4 inch.
  • Find the middle of the top edge of your towel and mark with a pin.
  • Pin the hood to the body towel with the scarf on top. You want the straight side of the hold lined on top of the the body towel and then place the scarf on top of that. I like my scarf to start at the side opposite of the snitch so when it is is on the scarf is uneven and has a “wrapped around the neck” feel to it. Remember to tuck the short edges of the scarf under when you’re pinning.
  • Sew around all the edges of the scarf making sure to catch all layers (scarf, body towel, hood towel).
  • And now you’re done!

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