Summer weather is just about here and so the fun has already begun in getting our beach wear and gear all ready! And what a more perfect way to do that than by making a personalized hooded towel for the kids!
We’ll show you how to make a hooded towel, from start to finish… and you’ll love the ease of this sewing project. You literally can make one in just about 5 minutes! No kidding!
If you love machine embroidery, we will show you some tips and tricks for getting the best results when embroidering onto towels. If you do not own an embroidery machine, we know you’ll still be anxious to personalize your towels with sweet ric rac trims, ribbons, and even hand applique!
Not only are these towels so cute for the summer, but they make the most darling gifts for baby showers and birthdays! Once you make one, we have the feeling you’ll want to make many, many more!
And thanks to our wonderful sponsor this week, Embroidery.com, we are able to showcase the amazing line of Hemingworth products! Our personal favorite? THEIR THREAD! Whether you machine embroider, sew, quilt, or craft, the Hemingworth thread has so many advantages, you may never look at another spool again! We mention several of those advantages in our video, but if you’re interested in learning more about the Hemingworth thread line, then you’ll want to be sure to check out this link where you will find an even more detailed video outlining why Hemingworth thread is a “must-have” in your sewing room.
AND…speaking of thread, Embroidery.com and Hemingworth Products are giving away something we know you will ALL LOVE! One lucky viewer is going to win the Hemingworth Thread Caddy Drawer with 42 different spools of thread! And take a look at those colors – they’re gorgeous and vibrant! Who out there is hoping that this one becomes their own?
Here’s how to enter for your chance to win!
Here are some more photos of this week’s projects!
That is the cutest little mouse ever on that towel.
I can’t wait to make a hooded towel for my grandchildren.
Could you please include the size of the towels, because here in the netherlands handtowels have a different size. A childs head would not fit in in a half handtowel over heren
With a new grandbaby almost here, the ideas here are going to be well used!!! Keep up the good work!!
WOW what a great idea would you ship internationally? Wishful thinking LOL
How cute! I will make some for my grandchildren. Everyone will know who left their towel on the ground. No more “Not me!”. Thank you for having such fun and easy projects.
I embeded this episode, because I just love it! I will make these for my boys. I s there a way to show what I have made with your help?
I confess I am so jealous you have an embroidery machine. I do all mine by hand and yes the thread gets tangled so I know just what you mean. Fantastic way that Hemmingworth enclosed their thread to prevent that! My 6 grand-daughters would love to have me make them hooded beach towels. Thanks for the great idea.
How can I say what I love best from the embroidery webside? There is so much I love. I want the flexi snips (broke mine a few weeks ago) The price of these is great and it is the best tool.
Thay have many many many great designs and even some very nice free ones.
And did you see the stack and store bobbin tower, I want that!
I really like this bobbin tower I found at Embroidery.com!
http://www.embroidery.com/product.asp?sid={E1DCBA8C-E861-457B-8885-534819E3459C}&EFID=1123&productsetid=118305&shopstop=1
Something I desperately need.
I live at the beach and these are gonna come in SOOOOOO handy for my 3 beachbound grandkids!!I’m gonna make one for me and grandpa!!
Posted here:
http://www.babasfarmlife.com/2010/05/make-cute-hooded-beach-towels-for.html
I learned a lot about the embroidery machine today and now I want one.
I just posted episode 9 on Facebook.
Posted Episode 9 on twitter.
I visited Embroidery.com and loved it. Will bookmark this site.
So simple! It would make great summer gifts! Thanks for all the tips!
I love them they are so cute! I only wish I had a little one to make them for. I really enjoy seeing each episode and look forward to the next one. Keep them coming!
Jeanie
What a fun and fast idea to make your child happy.
I love the plastic cover on the thread that prevents staining and tangling. Also the thread colors are endless. Then I took a look at the video gallery at Hemmingworth which is definitely worth a visit.
Great show. Can’t wait to make the towel and tote. Can’t believe the great gift in the giveaway. Love to receive one like that!
I just love the towels they are sooooo cute.
Joan
Love the episode! I need to try this thread! I have dust problems!
I love the embroidery blanks that they have on the website!
I love the beach totes because I always have trouble trying to figure out where to put my personal items when I go to the beach or the pool. A purse is just to much to deal with in this setting so the tote will be perfect. Thanks for the idea I’ll be making a few for this summer.
LOVE this idea!!!! I needed baby shower gifts and there they are.
Love the towels. They are sew cute.
I love this project! I can’t wait to get home tonight to make at least one, maybe more! My granddaughter will look adorable and get tons of use out of this towel at the pool. She is also into purses and the tote is just her size. I have just ventured into embroidery and love Hemmingworth’s cover over the thread to avoid tangles. The color selection is also fantastic. Thank you for sharing these projects and Hemmingworth’s products.
Great video! I think I can do this now. I wasn’t too confident before. Your video was very well done. Thank you!
I embedded the video in my blog. My readers will really benefit from it. And, I’m sending them all over here to enter the giveaway, too.
link to post: http://comfortjoydesigns.blogspot.com/2010/05/diy-dish-giveaway-i-have-to-share.html
Deborah
comfortjoydesigns AT gmail DOT com
Embroidery.com has a little bit of everything. I’m amazed at the gadgets available that I didn’t know about in their sewing supplies section.
Kris & Kim – Great job!! Each episode is better than the one before. I’m going to sort through the abundance of too-many towels that I already have; those’ll be very nice for bath-time. Then I’ll shop for some new ones to create hoodies! You’ve also gotten me very interested in an embroidery machine, something the salesman at the sewing machine shop couldn’t do!
My GD is so anxious to go to the beach this year. She is 3 and loves the beach. Wouldn’t the grand kids love one of these beach towels personalized just for them! Thank You!
Too easy….GD will love these. Thank you
Thank you!! I have been wondering how to make hooded towels and now that we just moved to the hot state of Texas, they will come in handy for my boys and as gifts. I also absolutely love the fact that you are keeping your old episodes up on your website. That way I can go back and do a project I wasn’t able to do right away. I’m putting your logo on my blog! You guys rock and I love these videos. Sharing them with all my friends on facebook too!
I have 3 adorable great-grandkids who will love having their own personalized hooded towels. And this project will be perfect to try out my new Janome MC11000se embroidery.
What a great idea. Thanks
Those thread colors are gorgeous! What a wonderful giveaway. Thank you.
I just went to Embroider.com and I’ve bookmarked a few of their e-classes I plan to watch when I have a bit of free time. Thanks for introducing me to this site.
What a sweet prize! I’d love to win that.
My kids could definitely use some new hooded towels. There’s are looking positively worn out. Thanks for the directions!
By the way, I’ve emailed 2 friends about the giveaway (although I told them they have to share the thread if they win) and I’ve posted about it on my Facebook page.
a great gift,usefull and something they probably dont have:)
Can’t wait to get started on the cute beach towels! I have a backyard swimming pool and 3 kids, so this is a perfect idea. Now all I need is an embroidery machine and all that amazing thread!
We have towels like this…simply wonderful and cozy. Now, I’ll embellish them….
I twittered.
I love Embroidery.com I don’t have an embroidery machine, but American Sewing Guild hosts online meetings there…love it! I can go to ASG and learn from others in my pjs….
Thank you for pointing me to Embroidery.com! I have never seen Hemingworth products and I am interested in that and also the designs available on the website.
As usual, I simply loved this episode. As an avid embroiderer myself, I am dumbfounded that I didn’t think of embroidering one of those towels. I will be making some of those for my grandchildren this summer (can’t believe it’s almost here! yeah!) I also do a lot of shopping at Embroidery.com. I love their embroidery designs, but have not bought any threads there…..I will now@ I think the design of their thread packaging is ingenious! Solves sooo many problems with those big spools of threads. Thanks for showcasing them.
Loved the Hooded-Towel idea! And I already have a super Embroidery machine, so I am going to get a stash of towels and make some gifts for my daughter and all her little cousins, just in time for Summer! I will add a cute little design as well as their own Monogram – what a really great gift idea too, especially for upcoming Baby showers. I might even make me one from a large beach towel, I’d like one too!
Great episode! That little purse would be a great way to start a beginner sewer learning how to sew. You girls are just the cutest! I look forward to every weeks episode. Hope I win that thread I embroidery alot so could sure use it.
Another great idea. What a great gift for someone who does not sew and they would say wow! what a great idea. How did you come up with that. I love these little towels and I used them for my daughter all the time when when she was little. All her friends are getting married and having children and I would love to make these and give as gifts. Thanks so much for all your great ideas.
This is such a good idea, we live in northern Ontario and have made our cottage winterized so we get lots of company in the summer and they are always swimming this is a good way for the grandchildren to regonize their towel and to hang it to dry and get it when we ready to go again. Thank you ladies
Embroidery.com has been in my favorites places on my computer for years. I love to embroidery so they are a one stop shopping place for everything I need.
I just forwarded this episode to my sister-in-law, I know she will love the neat things you girls do too
This is a perfect idea for beach towels…. Love it, love it!! I’ll be working on this project this weekend. It will be perfect for my kids, niece and nephew.
Thanks for the project and the info on embroidery.com
I checked out Embroidery.com and they have a lot of neat stuff for both machine embroiders or hand embroider, so you can embroider on your hooded towels even if you do not have an embroidery machine.
I have just posted about this great Episode on Facebook, and included a great blurb about Embroidery.com . I love you both!
Cute! Cute! Cute! I need to get going and make a bunch of these ~ our kids will be the envy of the beach club! Thanks for another GREAT idea.
My keyboard is now WET from drooling over that thread!!!! I want this!!! I just started machine embroidering and I am so over the moon with excitement. Your beach towel and sling pouch are sooo cute! Going to make one for each of my grandchildren. : )
Have made these towel wraps before and always a big hit as a gift.
Great ideas Kris and Kim! My grandchildren love the pool, and these towels will be great for them.
What a cute project!! Those would make a great summer birthday gift! LOVE the thread drawer!
I love the towel and I really appreciate the embroidery tips. I am a beginner and would love to see more embroidery tips, hints and tricks. I will check out embroidery.com it sounds like a great resource!
Once again…cute
My biggest desire from embroidery.com would be the embroider’s buddy ~ I think that something to hold those hoops still would be awesome! But there are 100s of other products I would want as well!
How fun is this? My niece just had twins last night and what a fun gift for her. Can’t sait to make them.
Great episode. I can’t wait to start working on some of these. As a machine embroidery enthusiast, I really appreciate the opportunity to win the thread. It’s the first I’ve heard of the Hemingsworth brand. I always like to find new products and, here, I get reviews right along with them. Thanks.
Oh my goodness! I LOVE that hooded towel…..I see a few in my future!
Nini
I love the Kangaroo! If I had a dedicated workspace, I could be much more productive…
I love the little bag in this episode. I have a 10 year old granddaughter who loves sewing and crafts. She is going to a swim camp this summer. It will be a perfect project for her to make for herself and her friends.
I think the thread caddy is an amazing invention. Would love to own a few for my thread ‘collection’
Susan
I can’t wait to make these for my kids and all my nieces and nephews for our summer trip to the beach. It is the perfect project for my new embroidery machine. Thanks for the tips on adding the embroidery to the towels.
Love the ideas. Always looking for more ideas for machine embroidery projects, especially for gifts and giveaways. Love the different embroidery threads!
My 5yo daughter and I are making these this afternoon! We’re going to the beach in a month and these will be perfect. My daughter said to say “these are sooo awesome!” Perfect birthday presents…too many ideas!
Love your show. I think I’ll make the wash cloth tote and bath towel hoodie for my niece.
I just can’t wait to make one of these towels for my daughter.
It will be great at those long swim meets.
Thanks so much for all your great ideas.
What a great gift idea. I especially love the simple beach purse. I love the embroidery thread. The holder looks fantastic and all your thread is readily together.
I have a baby shower coming up for twin girls and the hooded towels will make great gifts. Embroidery and rick-rack will make them extra special. I look forward to every episode.
These would make a great baby shower gift as well.
Love the wrap – keep up the good work.
Love the hooded towels! Thank you for a great video!
Oh my goodness!!! Unbelievable! A hooded towel with TWO seams…if I didn’t see it I would never have believed it! Thanks for the fabulous idea!
The towel project was so adorable – and easy! I wish I had some of those when my kids were little….guess I’ll have to wait for grandchildren to spoil! I have never seen the Hemmingworth thread before but you’re right…it has me drooling! Thank you so much<
Laura from Indiana
These are soo cute and I would love to make somje for my 3 yearold for when we go over to a friends house to swim and Bath, but I think 2 seperate ones would be good. Also thought about making a bigger towel tote. Thanks so much.
I don’t twitter…but I did forward the email about the episode to all of my friends that sew. I know they will love it! I hated to send it because now I can’t WOW them when I take this EASY fabulous hooded towel to a shower or birthday…they will know how easy it really is. Oh well…I can still be creative with the embroidery!
Love love love love love! Want the thread … want … want … want … want … want … want … want … want … want … want
I love embroidery.com! I love to look around on their website…I CANNOT get over the Hemingway thread!! I have never seen anything like that set! WOW! I think that is one of the best items they have on their site. The covers on each spool are amazing! Good luck to everyone! Whoever wins that will be blessed!
Can’t wait to show my grand-daughters the beach tote. I am teaching them to sew or their new machines and your site gives great ideas.
I would love to win this! Thanks for the opportunity.
I really liked your towels thank you
I went to embroidery.com and they have some great things there. I love to look at the projects and get inspired. They have the directions to help to get them done. Thanks for directing me to this site.
Love the hooded towel. I’m especially interested in your sponsor. Your tips were great especially how to use the stabilizer. I just ordered myself an embroidery machine yesterday. So, I will definetly stopping by Embroidery.com.
Thanks
love this project!! my grandchildren are ALL going to have these by tomorrow!!
I shared the hooded towel and tote video on my facebook –a lovely project; so appealing and so easy to do! With 14 grandchildren, I need to find towels on sale somewhere!
What I have beem looking for Hemmingway! So tired of buying all those thread cases!
I would be thrilled to win the thread! I own a Husky Star and a Brother embroidery machine and only own 2 colors of thread! Love the case that it is in!
I love the mini tote–perfect for keeping small things together in your beach bag!
I don’t blog, but I am sharing you with my bi-weekly crafting group. Love everything that you do.
I’m telling ALL my sewing friends about you!
Great episode, great ideas, and they really shouldn’t take a whole lot of time. These would look great color coded or monogram initials, it helps little people to start identifying their letters and takes no time at all before they know what their name starts with!
I have posted it into my blog. You make this so easy.
I love the little mouse you put on your towel. I would love to make one of those for my kids. You two are awesome!
Love the project! I have done some for my grandkids but you have given other ideas which are great. I liked the use of the double sided tape instead of hooping the towel.
Thanks
I love your shows, you have really great idea’s.
Thanks for the embroidery tips that you shared. I definitely want to try the Hemingworth embroidery double sided tape.
LOVE THESE!!! GREAT GIFT IDEAS!
Love the washcloth sunglass cover. Perfect for the beach!
As always, what fun and creativity! Thanks! My students will love these projects.
Thanks for the link to embroidery.com; I’ve learned a lot from scrolling around that site! My Viking dealer offers mostly rayon thread for sale, and the Janome dealer in the next town offers only polyester thread for sale. I found an interesting sidebar on embroidery.com under the Hemingworth thread banner that gives explanations for the different thread types and also suggestions for needles. Great information! And when it comes to embroidering on towels, a video like DIY #9 is valuable info to have!
I’d love to make these hooded towels for my great-nieces. They’ll love them! I appreciate the machine embroidery tips. also!
Since I am a beginner, I was drooling over everything. Patterns, thread, machines, everything! Embroidery.com has anything you could possibly be looking for. Thanks for the resource!
I would love to win all that gorgeous thread! And it even comes with it’s own organizer – cool!
Smiles~
Marilyn
I love the towels. I can’t wait to make a couple for my girls. I have a sample of Hemmingworth thread from a class I attended. I am drooling over the set.
Thanks a bunch for the neat idea.
Great episode! These are too perfect for all our summer swimming, and everyone can have there own personalized towel =)
Those embroidery threads are amazing! Thanks for the great giveaway.
Thanks for sharing the coverup. Great idea and so easy.
I love their Dingo Kangaroo Kabinets – could I ever use one of these!
Smiles~
Marilyn
This is a great episode!!!!!!!! I use Hemingworth thread and absolutely love it …this would be a great addition to my collection. I am going to make this towel for my grandson and for my two grandchildren on the way.
Thanks for all the tips. Always fun to watch.
Yummy yummy yummy thread!!
I love the idea of the Hemmingway thread and will be checking it out to see if they send to the U.K I will have to make several of the towels for all my grandchildren sounds a lot but mums and dads like the children to have two towels each for the children even on holiday
I think I would like to make the beach towels for my granddaughters. I’m pretty sure they will love them. Also, I love your show.
Love the towels! thanks for the great Ideas
Wow, I’d love to win that stash!
Love the hoodie towel. It’s perfect for a day at the pool!
Great Idea!!! Thanks for all your hard work putting the shows together! xoxoxox
I love this little pouch idea, so cute!! Thanks for the darling idea!!
Thanks for sharing the Embroidery.com website link. I loved everything! Too hard to pick one thing, but I am interested in a new sewing chair, always needing great threads, and who doesn’t want sewing supplies and crafting patterns. Threads look gorgeous and I am very intrigued by the drawer system!
OOOOOoooooo…i need that thread!!!! I love the hooded towels and have wanted to know how to make these for quite some time. thanks for sharing!!!
What a great selection in the store! I will certainly be ordering some of the embroidery patterns! Thanks for the links!
I tweeted this giveaway @jojobean26!
I love the hooded towel, my daughter’s family is headed to the beach on vacation in 3 weeks, I can’t wait to surprise the boys with the towels, and make a tote for the sunglasses and sun screen, also handy for the cell phone. I just went to the Hemmingway thread sight. Oh I am so excited, I have a embroidery machine, Yeah Grandma’s styling now, I wlll be 72 next thursday, but just learned how to do machine embroidery since I retired. And the Hemmingway thread, I can’t wait to try it, I get such tangles in my present thread, and was relieved to see it wasn’t any more expensive than what I use now. Thank you so much. I have 10 grandchildren who are going to be very happy.
oooh i just so look forward to your email link to the video when it comes, fills me with inspirations…and i sure could put that thread kit to use!!!
Beautiful things. Would love to do some of this myself using the thread and ideas you have. Great!
just love this episode thanks for sharing and can’t wait to get started
I just love it!! Can’t wait to make one for my grandaughter and if I can find a smaller towel I will make one for my little grandson who is only 6 months old, he will be so cute!!
Loved the hooded towel. Always wanted to know how to do one. Thanks
Love this show. Can’t wait to make the beach cover up and pouch.
Sandi
Another great idea for gifts & so easy. Thanks again
I love this hooded towel tutorial! I can’t wait to start making them. I have just ordered my FIRST embroidery machine and cannot wait to get started. This thread would be a great bonus. LOVE THE SHOW!
These hooded towels are wonderful!! I’m going to make one for an upcoming baby shower!! Thanks for the idea!!
I just embedded your video in my Blog!!!!
I just love your shows they give me so many great ideas
How cute! I have a nearly 2 year old granddaughter that loves to swim!
Love the beach cover up. This makes a great inexpensive Birthday gift or Friend gift. Something both that is one of a kind that the receiver will always remember.
One of my favorite things is machine embroidering now! I would love to make the hooded towel with some added personalization! The Thread would be a dream to win!
Ok, I posted it on my facebook page………sure to get some of my friends involved now!!
I enjoyed watching on how to make the tote. Sharing it with my daughter. Thank you.
Embroidery.com is Utopia for stitchers! I even found a cute machine embroidery pattern of a sewing machine that I can use to make something for myself for a change. : )
I love these towels. i have been making them for a while now. they make such fun gifts. I also love embroidery.com. I have never tried there thread. I will be soon. I have to untangle thread all the time. I am in love with the thread cover on the Hemingworth Thread. I will be getting some soon.
Just wonderful!!! Can’t wait to make it for all the little ones around here*S* And I love Embroidery.com………the best place!
Awesome episode! Thanks for sharing this simple and inexpensive project! I am looking forward to giving this a try. We are going on a trip in a few weeks to Florida and I think by boys might have to have one:) Thanks again ladies!
posted episode 9 on facebook
Loved the BobbinSaver on embroidery.com!
tweeted with a link
http://twitter.com/amalgrover/status/14228598255
Thanks for letting us know about embroidery.com! I have never heard of the Hemingworth brand!
i would love to have the Brother Entrepreneur PR-650 (DST)…really cool machine!
Thanks so much for sharing. You have gotten me motivated to make personalized bath towels for all this summers childrens birthday gifts!
Oooo I want!
I just posted this episode on my Facebook page!! (I almost want to keep your great ideas to myself and not tell anybody.)
OMG – I would love to win this! I admit, my embroidery machine has been collecting dust for the past few months – this would help get over that dry spell and get back to embroidery!
Can hardly wait to make several of the hooded bathtowels. They will make great baby gifts.
I can’t wait to make the little purse for all my sewing girlfriends. Why couldn’t you carry all those items you need to “sit and sew something” as you go on a trip or picnic. I alway carry a project to do!!! The towel is going to be my next birthday present for my grandkids!
I like the hooded towels. the items on embroidery.com, way too many to pick just one love! I have tried those Hemingway threads, they are great threads.
You ladies put a little sunshine in my day! I’m so looking forward to creating some of your hooded beach towels for my grandchildren!
Great Episode! I have 6 small grandboys that will have ‘Pirate Theme’ Beachtowels! Thanks – Got to run now to the store for towels!!!!
Wow, love this episode and great giveaway..
OMG…Those towels are awesome and so very very simple…I can’t wait to make some..Yes I said some not one..I think I am gonna make them for my kidds and my lil neices as well. And the puch is awesome too. I was thinking I could line the pouch with some clear vinyl. Because my daughter that is 10 loves to take her cell phone everywhere. I am always worried when she brings it along to the pool so maybe if I put some vinyl in it it would make it a bit waterproof in case she dripped on it… Anyway cudos to another great great show with great and simple instructions fo ra wonderful useful project.
I love the hooded towels at embroidery .com…
Oh yea I learned something new too from todays episode. i had never seen that embroidery double sided tape before. thank you for a wonderful product showcase…I gotta get some of that I hate to hoop ..I usually just pin everthing to the hooped stabalizer with large pins. Thank u…
Another cute project, I love the mouse towel! You guys are really making me want an embroidery machine!
Love all of the animal blanks you can ebroider.
Went to embrod.com and loved it . Bought 2 things and can’t wait for them to arrive Marianne
I can’t wait to make these towels for all my nieces and nephews for our family beach trip this summer!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing these wonderful ideas!!!
The Summer Mouse Design can be found here:
http://www.swakembroidery.com/info/featured-products/SWAK_ame_summermouseapplique.htm
The entire Darling Mouse Set can be found here:
http://www.swakembroidery.com/info/featured-products/SWAK_ame_darlingmouseset.htm
Thanks for your comments!
I just watched the video. Lots of good information I am sure to use. Thanks
Well… if I could go back in time and really listen when my mom was trying to teach me how to sew! Next so that when my children were young, or even my grandchildren were, I could make these really cute towels! I live along the coast so spending time at the beach was wonderful. I still might make one of the washcloth totes, but using a hand towel instead for all the junk I need to carry to the beach but don’t care if they get wet. However, to make it water-proof, I could line it with heavy duty plastic sheeting! Then I wouldn’t worry so much if a bit of water got into it. I could add the ribbon to tie around my waist instead of around my neck…. wow….it just keeps getting better and better!
I am going to make these cute beach cover ups for my grandchildren. I gave my 5 year old grand daughter a little sewing machine for Christmas. When she comes over I am teaching her how to sew. Thanks for the cute beach tote idea. That will be our next project.
I love these towels. My daughter used so many growing up. They really make the best shower and B-day gifts.
I am passing this website on to my daughter. She will love it.
My kids always loved a new towel for summer and even when they wanted their favorite super hero -girly one –Icould still make it their own with the hoody with their name on it and put a quillow pocket to fold it up in and have a place for lotion/sunglass.
I have never heard of the Hemingworth Thread. I LOVE the containers they come in because I can’t stand all the loose ends of thread. I also like the idea of using the double sided tape for embroidery because I hate hooping. I am going to order some thread and the tape today.
Wow! Love you girls!! You make all the tutorials wonderful. I want to do these especially for my grandkids and will. Thanks for a great job again!!
I just embedded your code on my facebook page. I am sure all my freinds will love the video as much as I did ….You should get a lot of new traffic to your site as well. I hope I win the thread..I go through tons of embroidery thread and i have never tried the Hemmingway threads . It does look like a very neat little packaging system that they use.
HOw cite are these towels. I see them going to pool this summer AOLT.
Just posted this episode on my blog as well. http://www.maisysplace.blogspot.com
I just embedded into my facebook page.
WOW! You really made the hooded towel look super easy!!!
and the threads…..WOW! I love the set up!
I made these for my kids when they were young and had forgotten what great gifts they make! I loved the tip on not hooping I too hate hooping great ideas, and that thread was amazing! So cute I look forward every week as to what is next!! Keep it up girls!!! Going to post this on face book!!
Really enjoy your show. Always so glad to see the posting in my email on Tuesday mornings. I have my second cup of coffee and enjoy. I also machine embroidery. It is addictive. Would love to own all that thread.
I’v3 always wanted to make these for my Grandkids, but now they are too big for them but will make one for my Great Niece. Loved the personalization and the mouse was so adorable. Thanks for sharing a great video tutorial.
Loved this episode! What a cute idea to have these hooded towels on hand for when grandkids come over to swim or hot tub! And thank you especially for the idea about the double-stick embroidery tape…I’m getting LOTS of that for sure!
love the towels, allway’s looking for new idea’s for the grandkids.
Great giveaway- as always.
I love the offering of classes on embroidery.com. They cheap ways to learn a new skill with your machine.
I love the little tote out of the washcloth! It will be so perfect when going to the pool for sunblock. It always seems to get lost in a the big bag of stuff I tote along. Now I can just let the kids carry it!! Thanks so much for sharing your great ideas!!
That’s a great project! My nieces and nephews are going to love them as well.
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oh wow! that thread has me drooling
thanks for the fun videos and great prizes.
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The towels are adorable. I’ll be making them for the neighborhood kids!
Episode 9 – Wonderful hooded beach towel and tote – use after child’s bath, too! One caution for the little tote – reduce the length of the strap to 10 – 12 inches so that it will fit around a child’s wrist only – the longer length could pose a dangerous problem to rambunctious children. http://www.embroidery.com is a great website not only for Hemmingworth thread and embroidery blanks, but for their education videos and projects.
I posted the video on my blog: http://prpldy15.blogspot.com/2010/05/hooded-towel-for-summer.html
This is my favorite project yet !!!! I am going to visit my grandchildren this week and I will definitely be bringing out this beach towel and tote !!!!
Cute and simple! My favorite crafts. This is definitely going to be on my list of gifts to make!!
Going to try to make a towel forsure..always wanted to and the thread looks amazing and be so wonderful to use on my projects. I’m anxious to order some double sided embroidery tape (never heard of it) because I also hate to hoop…..KIM…your necklace is so cool that you were wearing in this segment…hoping that might be what we’re going to make next time. I rubber stamp also, and kind of makes me think that is what it is…..GORGEOUS!
I love needle felting and really want one of these Pen Style Felting Needle Tool (8901 / F074295NM). I have the tool that holds 6 needles but need this one too.
I love the simplicity of this hooded towel; what fun colours you could use ~ thk you for a very useful segment. Also love the Hemmingway threads, every embroider’s dream when it comes to threads & such lovely colours. Love the thought of it being contained in the protective cover, also the cap to help thread stay where it belongs & not tangled amongst other items or threads. Thank you for a great video.
margjoff@shaw.ca
Get the kids starting to sew with this easy project!
This week was fantastic. I can think of so many uses for the washcloth pouch. And what a great idea for the hooded towel. It would be fantastic to make these towels for the older children, for their baths to beach wear. Great job ladies. Keep up the great ideas. Just can’t wait for the next idea.
The double sided tape is a must for me….what a find! I am going to try this with beach towels. Thank you….
This is SO clever! I have 9 grandchildren, so guess what I will be busy making!
thank you so much for you wonderful show. This is a project that almost anyone
can make! simple but wonderful! going to check out embroidery.com now!
This towel project has always been one of my favorite projects for baby showers! My daugher and my son each did one for a 4-H fair project years ago!!
I just love embroidery.com! They have wonderful online classes and that Hemingworth thread is the best!! They carry 12wt thread for my serger crochet projects and I get all my thread there!! embroidery.com also sponsors ASG online webinars too!! LOVE them!!
I never thought I’d say thread was beautiful!
My grandmother made a hooded beach towel for my son when he was little. She hand embroidered his name. Now I am going to try to make them for my grandchildren. Thanks!
this is so perfect for the grandkids to use at our pool.
each can choose their very own design, what fun!
My son was watching the video with me and said that he NEEDS a hooded towel so I guess I will be making them for all my boys. I would love to win. The thread that is amazing, and a way to store it! Thanks for showing us such amazing products.
What a great idea!! Can’t wait to make some for my grandchildren, and that mouse is the cutest. Thanks for more great creativity…..
The towells are precious! I am going to visit and this will be a perfect present for my grandson who lives near the beach. Thanks for all your great ideas.
Pris
I love the hooded towel. So useful with the little ones!
I love the hooded towel. What a great gift idea.
the towels are super-makes a great summer gift for my 3 great grandbabies!
I will be trying out this project for sure! I have four children ranging in ages from 3 months to 8 years old. This towel would be much warmer and much more absorbant than the baby towels offered in the stores for my baby. It will also be great for my older ones at the pool. I Can’t wait to get started!
I love embroidery.com. I haven’t seen the double sided tape yet, its a must have for anyone that loves to do machine embroidery!
I posted on FB! Thanks for the great easy instructions. I love to embroider towels I have made them for everyone but my own children, I need to get working.
RT on Twitter because who doesn’t need a drawer full of thread? Especially thread as beautiful as this!
I loved your show today! I’ve always wanted to make a hooded towel, but all my kids are grown and NO grandchildren
The good new is that my nephew’s wife is pregnant and I think a baby towel would be gresat for the baby! Thanks so much! Joyce
i am sharing this one for sure, a great gift for boys & girls.
Can’t wait to make the hooded towels for EVERYONE. I knew it had to be easy. Thanks so much for sharing. And the tape is a must find. I’ve been using the spray adhesive and think the tape will be so much better.
great idea for when grandkids come to the lake!!!
This is the easiest and best looking hooded towel I have seen. I have sewn two other versions of it and this is the neatest. Cant wait to try it.
was very excited about the beach towel. i just started machine embroidering and have had a ball. have four great kids to sew for.keep up the great crafts
My grand babies are in for a beach towel treat!! Can’t wait to make them!!!!
Thank you so much for showing how to make these. I got one as a shower gift when my daughter was born ( 8yrs ago) and would love to make some for baby showers at church.
I use the magna hoop on towels since I did not know about the tape, thanks for that hint I will share with all my friends.
What a great idea, such cute towels…
I’m going out today, I think I’ll stop and pick up a couple of towels and hand towels to make a couple of these for my grandson. He’ll love the hoods on these towels! This is a great idea and extremely easy.
Mare
Just posted to my Facebook
These hooded towels make the most marvelous gift for a new baby.
I would love to win that thread! Cannot wait to try out making the towels!
missy
Looking at the pictures you included of the kids holding the towels closed..how about using the other half of the hand towel for pockets INSIDE the towel. They could put their hands in the pockets to keep the towel closed as they wrap the towel around their body. Also, the washcloth tote is oerfect for an ipod. Put a buttenhole in the cloth prior to sewing together. The provides a space for the ear buds to slip through. I love to listen to books on tape when at the beach. This will keep my ipod clean, sand free and out of sight. Always love your ideas. Love embroidery.com as well and have taken several of thier e-classes. Hemingworth double sided tape is the best!
Is thereno end to your clever ideas? The grandkids are going to love these projects.
Is thereno end to your clever ideas? The grandkids are going to love these projects
These threads are beautiful. It would be amazing to win. I really liked the show, I might do these for my grandsons.
These are just fantastic! I will definitely be making some for my kids (and probably every kid I know!) to snuggle up in after getting out of the swimming pool! The adorable mouse makes me wish I had an embroidery machine, but I am sure I will have a blast embellishing the towels in other ways. As always, thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us!
This is a super quick project for beginning sewers and something for graduate gifts.
I just went to the Embroidery.com website… the stuffed animals are very cute!
That was a great show! I don’t have a blog, so I put it on facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000069365696#!/profile.php?id=100000069365696&ref=mf
I also went and checked out the website and all the furniture is so nice and maybe someday. LOL
I one thing I thought was really great and something I could actually afford was the Arrow Suzi storage cabinet. I am keeping my fingers crossed on this giveaway and will be checking back. That is so cool.
Pattyjo
What an adorable project. My grandaughters swim and this is the perfect project for grandma to make them.
The towel is a great idea. I’m definitely making one for my grand-niece.
I shared the link with my daughter so that she can check you out.
I have been in the process of collecting patterns and ideas for my upcoming new grandchild. Maybe your project idea would be great for children that are 2+ years old. Thank you for the project I will use it in the future. I wasn’t aware of the Hemingsworth line of thread – what a great idea to contain the thread reduce mess – love it. Would love to own that thread!!!
fun giveaway and fun episode. thanks!
There’s so much to see at Embroidry.com! I think my favorite is the <a href="http://www.embroidery.com/product.asp?sid={DEF7AB8E-6782-4BF7-9441-552BB255DDE2}&EFID=1781&productsetid=108181&shopstop=1".Pixie table by Arrow Sewing Cabinets. Right now I have to use the kitchen table to sew on and the floor to cut my fabric on. It would be nice to have something to use that could do both and still be compact when I need to store it away. I share my craft room with Hubby and his computer, so my space is limited. The Pixie table is definitely going on my wish list!
I sent your episode 9 to 3 people I might have missed the first time I spread the great messages you convey.
The sewing chair @Embroidery.com really caught my eye. It is definitely going on my wish list. I’ve also bookmarked the site because there are too many things of interest for only one visit.
Hi! I’ve been working on making bath blankets for babies but hadn’t thought of a way to make one for my older GK’s. I think I will be going to the store soon to get some towels for them. For the baby bath blankets I added some cute embroidery designs and have purchased designs from Embroidery.com but haven’t tried the new thread. Would enjoy all those threads!
Wow! Time to go towel shopping! I can’t wait to make these easy hooded towels! Thanks for another great show!!
Super cute!! I can’t wait to make one! Thanks so much for another great episode
I have been a long-time visitor to Embroidery.Com and you’re absolutely right! Amazing products and great deals! Thanks for showcasing their site!!
Can you please tell me how to find the mouse design?
Thank you, and I just love this towel.
I’m completely obsessed with wool felting right now, So I will definitely be looking into buying some of my supplies from Embroidery.com Great Prices!
Thanks again!
Sirena
These hooded towels are next on my project to give to my nephews for the end of school/start of summer celebration. Thanks!
I have made hooded towel before and was not successful. After watching you do it, I know where I went wrong. It looks so easy. I can’t wait to try again, the right way this time. Thanks for the show. I enjoy it every time.
I LOVE the little towel pouch. My 9 yr old son is begging to let him sew something so I think this will be his first project! Thank you for the idea.
Love this. Well done ladies:)
I did enjoy the beach towel project and will use it for a gift idea.
Thanks,
Wendy
Thank you for the extra tip on how to embroider on towels. I love the idea and will surely use them for many many gifts!
I have always loved the hooded towels. I received one as a gift a couple of years ago and my kids always fought over it!! Who knew they were so easy. I’ll definitely be making some to have on hand for baby showers.
I love those lil bags! Going to make a few for my neices & nephews!
I checked out Embroidery.com. Makes me wish even more I actually had an embroidery machine!! I did see a John Deere fat quarter bundle that I would love to have to make something for my little brother.
Oh how I hate to hoop! I am off to get some of this double sided Embroidery Tape! Didn’t know they made that! Thanks for info alone.
Don’t forget to let us know about the MOUSE DESIGN,
so I can make this for my Grand kids.
Thanks so much
I absolutely love this idea. These would be great party favors for my daughter’s birthday pool party.
I LOVE these! And they are so easy to make:) I will be making these for sure:) By the way I love your shows, they are so inspiring!
this episode was great!love the towel ideas!
I absolutely love the projects this week! Thank you so much for doing the DIY ! It is such a fun way to learn new ideas and crafts
I really love the hooded bath towel. I went to Embroidery.com and looked at all they have to offer. What is not to like. I just love all the set ups for the furniture where you have everything at your finger tips. ahh if I ever win the lottery?? lol
Great hooded towel, I made mine with 2 wash clothes sewn together instead of cutting the hand towel. Great for adults, too like the SR swim at the YMCA. Love the mini tote!
I would love to have the Hemingworth thread. Love your show!
Love the hooded towel idea. I can not wait to make these. They will be perfect for trips to the pool.
I love these ideas!! Can anyone tell me where this embroidery design came from? I’d love to use the same design on my towels. The mouse is sooo cute.
You lady’s are adorable and I loved watching your show! I can’t wait to make a hooded towel for my 4 month old granddaughter for bathtime and swimming! The tote bags will be a great gift for my older grandkids for when they go swimming and to the park this summer! Thank you so much for sharing all your ideas and hard work!
Great! My daughter needs a new one, she outgrew her little ones.
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So cute – great gift for my neises summer birthday!
These towels are so much fun! The embroidery is a great way to personalize them. I wish I had an embroidery machine! Thanks for the fun ideas you present.
The Control-A-Twist Thread Guide is pretty sweet!
Love the hooded towel idea! I’ll definitely be making this for my little one for the summer and probably some for gifts as well! Thanks for the idea and the opportunity to win that beautiful thread!
I checked out embroidery.com. It is a great website! I love the darling stuffed animals to embroider on. My favorite is the cow and the ladybug!. Their retail store is in my hometown and I love supporting our local businesses!
love the embroidery designs at embroidery.com! They have a lot that I’ve never seen anywhere else!! I am going to have to go shopping there!! Thanks for the tip!
The hooded bath towel looks so easy and my grandaughter has been using her oler brothers when she comes to swim so now I can make her own and put her name or something cute on it to make it her own.
I’ve never tried this thread before. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Great episode!
What a GREAT idea!! And I ADORE that mouse embroidery design. I am on the hunt for it on the site now.
The website is fantastic. Thank you for sharing it!!
Another great episode.
Shared this episode with a friend new to sewing.
Loved everything at embroidery.com – can’t decide what I need most
I’ve been making hooded towels similar to this for years. (I recieved one as a gift when my oldest child was born — one of the best baby shower gifts). Love to add a name or other fun design with my embroidery machine.
I LOVE those towels! They are nicer, funner and cheaper to make than buying the ones in stores. I can’t wait to make them for my daughter.
Love the projects….and love the thread!!!!!
The Summer Mouse Design can be found here:
http://www.swakembroidery.com/info/featured-products/SWAK_ame_summermouseapplique.htm
The entire Darling Mouse Set can be found here:
http://www.swakembroidery.com/info/featured-products/SWAK_ame_darlingmouseset.htm
All the grandkids are getting these for the summer! Others are going to get them for Christmas later this year! I’ve been to Embroidery.com and they have great designs and ideas!
Thanks again for a great show!
Love the Hemingway threads, have used them and really like the sheen.
Great show, great ideas!
I visited embroidery.com — what an amazing resource! Would like to try the double stick embroidery tape, I don’t like to hoop items if I don’t have to. I checked out some of the embroidery designs. Some of those could be lots of fun to add to my collection.
i just love the hooded towel. my daughter received one like that many years ago as a baby gift. i was
trying to think of something to make our youth minister and his wife for a baby gift. what do you know
i had purchased many towels at xmas sale so i now know what to do with them. i guess i better get started. thanks sooo much for your ideas i love them.
wow this was a easy project can not wait to do it and the thread giveaway well i am crossing my fingers
Thank you
Pye
I will definitely make this for my granddaughter. I especially liked the hint about the Hemingworth double-sided tape.
Wonderful towel wrap! Not just for the beach, but even for bedtime baths! Thanks for the episode.
Hey, on your website, could you please change the turquiose font to a different color? It is really hard to see.
Thanks!
Lisa N
THis is a great show. I have some birthdays coming up for my little nephews and granddaughter so I will be making them all one. I have always wanted to make them but dont like the directions on the patterns. This is so easy and fast and then I can personalize them with their names on them. Thank you for the great tutorial. Love the wash colth idea also as my granddaughter likes purses so I will make her one for a purse she can carry around and play with.
Thanks for inspiring me with your towel wrap and tote. What about that cell phone or MP3 player? They deserve a handsome tote similar to the tote you made today.
Too stinking cute! My son would love one to wrap around him after getting out of PopPops pool (better get busy)…and Mommy would love to win the thread
Fun Project! Thanks for your fun weekly webisodes!
I just visited Embroidery.com. What a great site for everything embroidery! The blank clothing can also be used for decorative painting. Thanks for introducing me to the site.
Wow i love your idea’s. i would love a chance to win the thread Caddy. What a great idea how to store all your thread. Thanks for the chance to win. I love these towels also.
The hooded towel idea is great for my 3 kids. I love the idea of embroidering their names on it so they can only use that towel! Hooray for less laundry!
Lovely! I have been meaning to make some hooded towels and now have an easy tutorial to follow!
Love the variety of colors
the towels are so cute! i’d love to win that drawer of thread!!
At embroidery.com somekind of sewing table would be a big help
Cute Stuff! Love all the ideas. Now to decide how many to make. Hehehe.
I love it! I have been wanting to make these. Being a visual person, watching you do it so easily has inspired me. Thank you!
The threads are to die for !
I am still drooling!
Please enter me in the drawing:-)
Liz
I have been sewing for over 50 years and this show that you just did has inspired me to keep sewing. I cannot wait to do this project. Thank you so much for your show. You have made this so easy to do. Keep up the good work. Embroidery.com will be my next place to shop.
WOW! LOVED THIS EPISODE!! I have an embroidery machine that I do not use! This makes me want to dust it off and use it!!! Can’t wait to try out your GREAT IDEAS!!! The Hemingworth Thread covers are ingenious!! I would love to WIN their products!!! THANKS FOR ANOTHER GREAT WEBISODE! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!
I would definitely love to get some supplies from embroidery.com. I am in need of some good thread and some bobbins.
Once again another great idea !! My new grand-baby will have all cute things because of all your great ideas…i will do a beach towel soon..we have a pool and this will be perfect for her !! I also have twin nephews that will enjoy !! thanks the thread looks great too…just might get me some.
Love the mouse embroidery. Thanks for the tips on embroidering on towels.
I made matching robes for my boys (about 15yrs ago) out of towels they were so adorable in those robes. thanks for bringing back those memories.
The little totes would be great for carrying a bottle of water too. love it!
Love the project! You always have such great ideas.
How cute! I also love the mouse! I’m going to have to make these for my grandchildren and think this would also be a nice addition to a baby set to wrap baby up in after a bath.
Love this website ! Your ideas inspire me to be more creative!
Very Cute! I can already see my granddaughter’s smile when she unwraps her towel. Thanks for the very clever ideas. She is four, and in love with purses of any kind. She will love the matching bag for all her small treasures she cant seem to leave home without. I enjoy your videos.
I love this show and look forward to seeing what the girls have each week. I think these girls are so cute and funny and enjoy listening to them chat. I would love to see them on a TV program.
Thanks for the video. I plan on making hooded towels for my “water bug” grandchildren. The towels will certainly come in handy this summer since my kiddies spend a lot of time in the pool while grandma crafts!
Thanks again for the video…
Sharon
LOVE the simple yet very cute towel!!! I will be making one for my two nieces, and one nephew within the week! Every child loves to have their name on what is their own!!!
Keep up the good work you two!
Judy
I love to embroider. I have not used Hemingworth thread before. I guess I will have to get some and try it, or maybe by chance win it… I will have to make some of the totes and beach towels for the grandbabies! I really like these ideas! Thank you for sharing!
Love the video. I will be making one of those for my grandson.
I have been explaining to my 8 yr. old grandaughter the basics of sewing and this hooded towel and tote I believe will be the perfect project for her first sewing experience.
I would get the mega rack organizer for thread. I need to organize my sewing supplies before I can get more.
Love the little towel tote bag!
I have been making hooded towels for years, but with a different hood. Yours is very simple and I cannot wait to try it. I love the embroidered touches!
what great fun! I have 4 granddaughters who all go to the pools 2 in San antonio and 2 in ILL. I cAN’T WAIT TO GET STARTED.i WOULD LOVE TO USE THE EMBROIDERY PART OF MY MACHINE. i’M SO EXCITED TO DO THIS!!! i THINK i WILL USE AN OVERSIZED WASHCLOTH SO i CAN ADD A SMALL INNER POCKET(LEFTOVER FABRIC) IN THE PURSE FOR MY DAUGHTER SO SHE CAN PUT HER DRIVERS LICENSE IN THERE. THEN SHE WON’T HAVE TO CARRY A WALLET. aLSO IT WILL HOLD HER CELL PHONE,KEYS, MONEY AND SUNGLASSES AND THE GIRLS CAN EACH HAVE ONE ALSO. i HAVE NEVER SEEN EMBROIDERY THREAD INCASED WHAT A FANTASTIC IDEA. AND THE COLOR CHART HOW GREAT!! WHt a great way to bring in the summer season!
Love the hooded towel, looks so easy to make. I will be making one this week for a weekend birthday party!
I love the hooded towels and am going to try a make one with a bath sheet for my “big” kid who’s on a swim team. Thanks again for another great project!
Totally love this weeks episode…I had heard that these bath towels were so easy…just never dared to do one…but I will definately be making these for the whole family for our trailer. One towel for everyone that can hang up! Thanks so much for sharing a wonderful and easy idea!
Shared this fun video and blog with my facebook friends… thanks so much! I hope they love it as much as I do!
Neat projects!!! I’d love to win this Giveaway.
2. I love the idea Gallery they have on the site.
I love the way you suggested using tape to keep the strap inside of the stitch lines!
I love the thread card…if only I had made my grosgrain ribbon swatches this way..so much easier to have the colors on the side of the card! If I could have anything from this website..it would have to be either..a sewing table for all my machines…or some new digitizing software so I can learn to digitize my own stuff! Thanks so much!
what a great episode again! Love the washing cloth saver…
I love the DMC Stitch Bow Floss Holder….you can load your floss right on there and it keeps it so nice! Great products over there at Embroidery.com!
I share your projects with all of my FB friends by being a fan of your FB page!
Oooh, I am so coveting that neato torpedo embroidery drawer thread holder thingy — that’s genius!
Adorable!!! Will definately be making the hooded towels for grandkids! and for baby shower gifts!
I have several baby gifts that I need to prepare and this is a great idea for them! Loved the website as well.
I always love watching the DIY Dish. I get so many helpful ideas. I love making things as oppsed to buying in terms of gifts. My twins are turing 5 on the 26th and they are going to be getting hooded towls for their birthday. What a great inexpensive idea. Keep the ideas coming please!!!
Told a friend about this give away.
I love these hooded towels!
I will be making one (or a few ) of these for sure!!! Thanks for the great ideas =)
Wow! What a great website. Thanks for sharing!
I keep adding to my wish list!
Will be making these for swim team. Cute, cute, cute.
Just emailed this link to my other crafty friends.
Love the hooded towels. Will be making these for my daughters’ friends when they come over for the beach.
Shared this giveaway with my mom.
I will be making 9 hooded towels and pouches for all of my grandchildren. Great idea!!
I’ve been looking for a new sewing chair and will be ordering one from Embroidery.com. Thanks so much!
I have sent an email with the giveaway to all my daughters!
Thank you for a wonderful DIY Dish episode. These hooded towel projects are something I will indeed try for some little people in my family.
Wish I had known how simple it is to make a hoody towel when my girlies were little! We may be making a slew of these for Christmas gifts! Thanks so much for your fun show!
Would really like to have one of those thread racks to organize my growing supply of thread.
Who wouldn’t I want to make a hooded towel for?! okay maybe adults
but I could make the pocket sling for them! 
What an adorable idea! Living in the Pacific Northwest, these will be very popular!
Thanks for another great project idea! We do a lot of play dates at the fountains and also live near the beach, so this is going on my “to do” list!
I went and looked around the web site and found a lot of things I want to order especially the tape you mentioned. Love It. I will be making this for my granddaughter and doing embroidery on them now that I know the towel sandwich. Thank You.
Loved the project! It will be so much fun for grandchildren’s summer brithday presents. I also love Embroidery.com. I have purchased some of there designs and have had so much fun with them and giving them as gifts. I am always happy with new tips since I have only had my machine for a couple of months. Glad to find out that I have options besides hooping, referring to the double sided tape. Thanks for your ideas and fun projects.
Love your cute beach towels with the hood and all of the cute ideas to decorate them. The little pouch is a fun way for everyone to keep necessary items in for the pool. Embroidery.com is a great website and I have purchased from them in the past. Their service and products are wonderful.
Gail
Wow, what a thrill to hear my name mentioned today in Episode 9. Thank you for reading my ideas for the doggie brown paper basket last week. I feel like a celebrity today! Marietta
I shall make the beach pouch today for Myself, as I go to the beach
at least once a week here in Florida. Your tutorials are wonderful.
Keep up the good work.
I teach beginners sewing classes and I am so excited about using this as a project for my girls!! What a great idea! Thanks so much!
Embroidery.com is best loved by this embroidery enthusiast for their high
quality products, and also the educational classes such as American Sewing Guild.
Keeping my fingers crossed to win that thread drawer! Oh my!
Love these ideas! I don’t have an embroidery machine, but I think adding some fabric shapes and zig-zagging around them would be CUTE! The little tote is a perfect beginner project!
Thanks again for another great week!
Such a cute idea!!! I’m going to make them for the bathroom and the pool! And the thread looks amazing!
You always find great ways of turning everyday things into extraordinary gifts that are so very useful! Wow. You’ve impressed me big time. Thanks!
Thanks for all the cute projects and giveaways. I’m heading over to check out their site right now!
Just posted to my Facebook wall!
I am going to make these for my 4 grandchildren! Wish I had an embroidery machine!
Wow I love it.. I had made some of that towels before for my children and friends and they are wonderful, even do I learn something new today about that spools of thread and the tape to place and embroider that is amazing. I love to embroider and that is a big pain to me. Off course I will love to have more thread Machine embroidery is addictive LOL!!!
So many things on the embroidery.com website! As I was browsing through I designed my dream sewing room! But I really enjoyed the selection of embroidery patterns!
Love the towel and bags, great 4-H sewing project! I soooo want an embroidery machine. Will have to hint around to hubby for my birthday. Thanks so much!!
I would love to win the thread! Thanks for the hooded towel tutorial. I have always wondered how to make them!
The hooded towels have been on my “To Do” list forever! I love them. A friend of mine made two sets for my twins when they were born. They are five now and still love their hooded towels. I would love to have a stash ready to go for shower gifts and birthday gifts. Now that you reminded me of them I will have to move them to the top of the “To Do” list!!!!!
You ladies are the greatest when it comes to ideas for crafting. I especially love the mini tote for the beach. Thanks for sharing your projects with us.
I just emailed this link to my friends who have been interested. One of them remembers you both from Ricks and wanted to see your great webcast!
I also hate to hoop when I embroidery so I will be ordering that from Embroidery.com for sure. I always learn something new and fun with each episode!
I just went over to the embroidery.com website. They have everything! My mom has an embroidery machine, so I would love to do some classes from the website to learn to use it! Thanks!
I just visit the embroidery.com web and is amazing i like they have everything for sewing and embroidery thanks for showing.
Very cute and easy towels, thanks so much. I look forward to every episode!
Thanks for the great instructions… I love cute AND useful projects!!
what a clever idea to use for towels, so easy and fun personalize!!!!!
I just linked to this video on my facebook page!
Thank you for this video. I’m going to make all my small grand children one.
Keep up the great inspirations!
I also hate to hoop!
I just checked out embroidery.com … I really like their precut embroidery stabilizer sheets… it would be so much faster to use those for my embroidery projects!!
I have sent all my friends your site! Have had alot of responses on it!
Thanks for sharing the great idea of making this cute hooded towel. I’m going to make one for my granddaughter and my greatnephew.
I love this idea! I must look into buying an embroidery machine!
Hey guys you said to tell a neighbour, and that’s just what I did.
She was asking me about some quick crafts she could do with her tween niece’s when they come to visit, So I told her about you guys and the DIY DISH. She said she can’t wait to check it out!
Thanks again, I’m off to try the hooded towel.
my fingers are crossed!
looking forward to next weeks jewelry episode…..
These towels are adorable. I think I’m going to make one for my daughter who is on the high school swim team. I’ll use a very large beach towel and do it in school colors. She’ll love it after practices.
I truly l-0-v-e this idea! I’m needing a baby shower gift and this kind of thing would be perfect!
I really like your little pouch idea too…ingenious!
Again, another great project show. Love the washcloth bag-be a great project for my 11 yr old DGD to make. Thanks again.
I can’t wait to make this for my 14mo old. As a swim instructor I go through so many towels on a daily basis. It’s about time I made some cute ones for myself and my doodlebug. I can just see a cute red one with some amazing fabric binding around the hood. Thanks for the inspiration each week!
I LOVE this project – I have been wanting to make these for my kids and your instructions just made it easier! I would also LOVE to win the thread!
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LOVE your projects! So much fun and easy to do. I love to take them around with me on my ipod and sew sew sew! This “Beach Towel” Idead is GREAT! living in FL it is a MUST for everyone! And one never runs out of beach towels to make stuff out of
Im posting this on my Facebook page!
Thanks for the demo–I will have to try that double stick tape–looks like a great aid. Good work.
I was curious about the double sided tape so looked at it on embroidery.com, and I can’t wait to try it, but it is on backorder. I guess I will have to wait for it to come in.
This episode was great, and came at the perfect time for me. I have a 2 yr. old, 1 yr. old, and a newborn that these will be great for, especially because we will be going to N.C. and staying on the beach. I will have to look for towels big enough for my 11 & 9 yr old girls.
Clever, clever…… someday I will have grandkids to spoil with this stuff….. in the meantime….. I would LOVE The caddy!
Another fabulous idea! Thanks for the wonderful crafts.
Your shows get better each week and this week show is perfect for this time of year. I have a couple of gifts to make and this will be perfect. Can’t wait to get over to embroidery.com and check out that tape (although the post before mine says it is on back order). I’ve never tried Hemingworth thread, but it looks like it will be fabulous. Crossing my fingers and toes!
What a great project for my grandchildren!
Can’t wait to make one for them.
Chris
The double sided tape is what I want .I hate to hoop!
Loved the towels. I have made these for baby gifts but i used a wash cloth instead of cuting a hand towel. But with bigger kids i could see useing the larger hand towels. I just might have to look into that for my neices for they are going to be taking swimming lessons soon. The 2 minute countdown though i think was my favorite. I can not wait to try it out.
My Grandchildren would love these hoodies when they go to their swimming lessons or just swimming. A really fun project that I can be creative with. Thank you
Wow! Thanks for introducing me to embroidery.com. I could spend hours on their website. Also, thanks for another great episode–a wonderful gift for grandbabies.
This is a cute little hooded towel. I love the embroidery on it.
WOW! The embellishment possibilities are endless for this project. I just did some infant sized ones, and now with your directions I can make them for my Grandson who is six. I have drooled over the Hemmingworth Thread collection for a long time, so I hope I’m the lucky winner! Embroidery.com is one of my favorite sports. If you need something for sewing or embroidery, they have it. As usual, you girls spark my creativity gene. Thanks for another job well done. ONE ADDITION I would make to the hooded towle project is to add hanging loop where the hood is sewn together, then it might be hung up to dry before the kids run off to more fun (we can always hope).
Great project and so-o-o easy. I’m going to make one for each of my 4 grandbabies. Keep them coming! I just love to watch the two of you. You are both so adorable.
I love these ideas!!! I see some fun towels in my future!! The things I could embelish with pretty thread!!! Love seeing all the ideas you guys have!! such inspiration!!
Diana
I love this project!! I have tried making these before and the directions you have are so simple and I love the way you use the finished edges. I still use these for my 5 year old bath and I also use them when I give my small dogs baths it helps to wrap them up in the towels. Thank you for all your easy and fun projects!!!
This will be the perfect favor for my nephews, two of them, pool parties. Thank you for the delightful project.
I visited Embroidery.com and just as you said there are lots of items to consider. A great site.
The hooded towels would be so cute for my grandkids when they come over to use the hot tub!
I went to embroidery.com and looked around. I love their kangaroo cabinets; how great would it be to have everything you need at arm’s reach, all organized and handy! And the thread colors are just gorgeous!
The hooded towel from Episode #9 is a “sew” simple project and I have 3 grandsons who love the beach. Could you tell me where the mouse embroidery design came from? Thank you.
I’ve made these hooded towels. Now I’m going to make a tote to put the towel in to give away for gifts to family and friends. They are wonderful for the pool, beach, or lakes. Everybody seem to like them and enjoys receiving a personalized gift if their names are put on them. Keep up the great work on your show.
WELL THE LOVE THE SHOWS AND WATCH THEM EACH WEEK
THE IDEAS ARE SO GREAT AND SO EASY TO FOLLOW, I AM A FAN
THE HOODED TOWEL WILL BE GREAT TO MAKE A SMALL BABY HOODED BATH TOWEL FOR MY NEW G-GRANDBABY DUE IN JULY,
I HAVE A VIKING AND BOUGHT THE AMAZING BOX TO START EMBROIDERY, YOUR CLASSES ON THAT SUBJECT ARE SO HELPFUL, I AM JAZZED
THANKS AND I WILL BE HERE WEEKLY AS WELL AS SHARE YOU IN MY QUILT GROUPS ONLINE
DIANE
This is really cute and practical…thanks
Fantistic. my grandchildren are starting there swiming events IM gonna make them some and embroidery the names on them .and make the tote bag and applya pice of clear vingle so when they put there towel in it it wont wet the outside so id better go and get my towels see you Gls later.
Ooh, I can’t wait to make these for my girls!
I loved this episode! I need to make a bunch of these towels for my grandkids and some of those pouches. I think that pouch would be nice with a bar of soap in it. I think you could slip your hand in that pouch and would be great for a shower. I think I’ll head over to Embroidery.com and check out some of that thread, it looks awesome.
Love your idea for hooded bath towel and tote. It will be a fun gift for my new grand babies.
Enjoy your informative classes.
Another absolutely wonderful episode. I’m going to make my younger grandkids those for the summer. They will love them. I’ve got to tell you that I love embroidery.com I have purchased many items from them both online and at there store here in Logan. I purchased a few spools of Hemingworth thread for some projects I was working for Christmas and fell in love with it, so as I have needed to replace colors I have bought Hemingworth to replace my other embrodery thread spools. I love how you keep coming up with these great ideas that are easy and fun to do. You are both wonderful. Would love the thread set.
Great idea- the kids LOVE to play in the water, but then get cold so fast. This will help warm then up.
With Summer on the way, these towels will be a great item to keep around the pool at home too. Kids always getting a new towel everytime they get wet. Their name on it will keep that from happening.
Would love to win the thread collection from Hemingworth.
I checked out embroidery.com- what interested me most was the hardanger- I’d never heard of it, except in reference to the hardanger fiddle.
Went and looked at Embroidery.com and love the stack and store for your bobbins. Great idea.
The hooded beach towels are so cool and wonderfully easy. I have never seen the double sided tape used for hooping fabric for embroidery before. This is definitely a tip I will try.
I have made hooded towels but your way is so much easier….thanks
Darling towel and adorable little tote!
Loved the tips, can’t wait to make some for my grandkids.
Creativity was served! I enjoy making hooded towels for children & baby gifts, but the little bag is adorable & what an easy accesory to put with the towel gift. Thanks again, oh yes & I could really use the thread as I have more than one embroidery machine. My boys used to say that they collected hocky cards, Mom collects thread, lol.
Cute towel! I’ll have to make one for my son.
It is the most simple thing to make and can be used forever.
I LOVE new ideas! I also love how you repurposed the washcloths! That was great!
Watching is so much fun
Loved the beach towel and tote!! Can’t wait to try one! Loved the thread from you show today. Can’t wait to go the embroidery.com. Tangled embroidery thread drives me crazy! Can’t wait to check their website out. Thanks for all of the great info!!!
I love hooded towels! They really are easy peasy =) I like the little washcloth bag. You could also use the other half of the hand towel if you didn’t have a use for it. Love the elastic hairband for the loop for the button closure. Great repurposing.
I just love the washcloth purse/bag. My daughter is wanting to sew, I think this would be perfect. Thanks so much
Wish you had a pdf file just to remember the ideas. Thanks
Enjoy the embroidery designs on embroidery.com
I have posted this on my blog. Thanks
I like the embrod designs. I am waiting the 2nd arrival of my new embrod machine 1st one was broke yikes. Thanks ladies for this wonderful tutorial off to make one or two.
Loved your episode today and what amazing threads – love the covers on them and no more tangles!!!
What another episode. I would love a thread caddy! No more mess!
Wow, what a great idea. I can’t wait to make one. Great Job again!! Thank You for your time and inspiration every week. You both have really opened my eyes to my inner crafter..
I love the hooded towel and wqshcloth tote. Thanks so much for sharing with everyone.
This was a way cute and cheap idea, fun for the kids and even the adults. thank you for the great idea! can’t wait to see whats next.
I just love the hooded towel and it’s so easy! I will be making several of these. Thanks for sharing~
The hooded towels make me crave summer so bad!
Never heard of this thread before, but it is beautiful! I don’t have an embroidery machine, but I could use the thread anyway. Thanks.
These are the greatest gift…the kids really love them and they are so deceptively easy! Thanks for sharing.
If I were to win this, I might just have to get me an embroidery machine.
I’m intrigued with some of the cross stitch and hand embroidery items at embroidery.com. Thanks!
Love these quick and easy projects… I will have to make several of each.. Thanks .. And I love your shows..
I love to use my embroidery machine so this is just another GREAT way to use more embroidery. Also the towel reminds me of a robe my mom made me when I was in high school, made with two towels it pulled over my head and hand towels made the hood. Loved that beach robe! I will be making these for my grandkids too! Love you girls!
I love this thread caddy. I have not heard of Hemingway thread before, but will definately check it out on Embroidery.com.
I love the hoodie and that little shoulder pouch is adorable! I can see using different fabric squares as well! Thanks for the quick cute ideas
I can’t wait to make my own hooded towel for my two angels – yes they just went to bed (an hour ago they were devils).
hi girl just watched your show im going to be making some beach towels for my grand kids thank you very much .nellie
I have to say I am a huge fan of Embroidery.com, you can always find what you need. I went this time to just see what was new, not needing anything in particular. I found this great tute on embroidered thank you cards. This is just in time for end of the year teacher gifts. I have seen a few similar ideas, but this one had a new twist. Check it out!
http://www.embroidery.com/CPGView.asp?sid=&EFID=954&DocumentID=2321&shopstop=1
I have been searching for better quality hoodie towels to embellish for gifts, thank you for making this possible! I love your idea of stitching a design on the back center, an absolute stroke of brilliance!!! The Hemmingworth Threads are beautiful, next stop…Embroidery.com!
I love my embroidery machine….and your web show! You girls are a hoot! Blessings!
This is a wonderful project…going to put one together this weekend!
Love the beach items and checked out embroidery.com. This site made me feel like a kid with the Christmas Catolog.
I’d love to make my kids some towels. What a simple project!
Now I totally want a drawer full of pre-wound bobbins! What a revolution!
WOW, are these ever darling towels! What a great idea for the pool–I can hardly wait to make some for my favorite kids! Thanks for the inspiration!
great wrap for the beach. i live in maryland and have ocean city that they would be great for. my family in florida that would love this towel. great gift for baby shower gifts.
I would love to win these threads for my applique quilting!
I need this!
Super Satchel Thread Box (263162)
SheilaC
Another great project. I hope to give this one a try too……
Another AWESOME episode!!! I don’t embroider but I REALLY want to =)
Gotta go make some towells!
Holy Canoli or holy guacamole!! either way, that thread is beautiful!! I am a threadaholic and a fontaholic, can’t get enough of either… will have to check this out, because I also hate the unraveling and nesting threads in my thread boxes. Thanks for a fun episode!!
Greta
Great project!!! My three need a beach wrap this summer!! The Hemmingworth Threads would be a big help here!!
great project, great products, I am very interested in the double stick tape, seems so much more environmentally friendly than the spray adhesive.
Wow! I would love to win all that thread!!
Most hooded bath towels for babies are so skimpy, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make them for my granddaughter, using regular bath towels… man, are you my favorite people now!!! Thanks so much for the fabulous video!! And the ric rac trim is just perfect! Of course, the embroidery thread would be perfect, since I finally saved up and got myself an machine last year… after 40 years of hand embroidery, it’s a pleasure to let a machine do some of the tedious needlework for me!! Thanks so much!!
I shall be posting a link on facebook, because I have several crafting and sewing friends who will love to see this video and several other things that are on your blog!!
Those are the cutest little pouches I have ever seen. And such a great idea using a hair tie and button as a closure. My niece and granddaughter are going to love one of these. And of course they will have to be pink….
Love the beach towel and the little bag! What a great gift idea.
Embroidery.com is definitely a new favorite place to hang out! And I have to say I never even thought about double face tape for hooping!! I’ll be ordering their biggest quantity of that fun stuff!! I too hate hooping, especially bulky stuff like towels, and since I’m new to machine embroidery and don’t have lots of time to do classes or tutorials, and have only recently been able to spend a little time viewing great videos like YOURS, I never dreamed there was any way to stabilize my projects other than the basic hoop method! WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!! You’ve opened my eyes, and I can’t wait to learn more! I’ve been to your blog a few times, and I subscribe to your updates, but I can see that I shall be visiting you daily now, spending as mucy time as possible searching through your information, learning as much as possible from your vast reservoir of knowledge and experience! Thanks so much for being here!!!
I will soon be making some of the hoodies, as we are expecting two new babies in our family this summer. Will be a great gift for them.
I loved the beach wrap. It looks quick and easy.
I have a tip–save the odds and ends of your water-soluble topper,
then dissove in a small amount of water and brush on as a great
stablilizer. It dries fairly quickly and works well-saves a few
pennies, too. I’ve used the thread and it’s wonderful. I embroidered
on the minky bear blanks from Embroidery.com’s store–soo adorable.
Thanks for the ideas!
Carolyn
I just love your projects! It inspires one to get their feet wet. I’ve had my embroidery machine for a year now, and the webcasts have motivated me to explore my machine’s capabilities
Nancy
Love the hooded towels. Im going to make all my neeices and nephews one. Brenda
Wonderful idea; and so easy. My granddaughter will love this project.
Great thread and I love their embroidery designs! I look forward to adding some of them to my dog coats.
Those hooded towels and totes are the cutest! So easy to make, too! I am in the market for an embroidery machine and can’t wait to get one. That little mouse on the towel was adorable!
Those are such pretty threads!
What great ideas. And so cute, too.
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Thank you!! You have inspired me to work on the tote and towel with my daughters.
I like the cross-stitch patterns
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Love the wash cloth project! Going to use it for my summer sewing camps!
great looking towel. I’ve what to make the towel for a long time, now I have the patern. Thyank you. Please keep up the great show.
Once again this is such the fun hit!!!
I really enjoyed this episode. I recently made a hooded towel and was so suprised how easy it was. I love machine embroidery. I put an applique of a frog that I got off of one of our other sites. I love to see anything to do with embroidery. That thread collection is so nice. That would be an awesome prize to win. Thanks for the dish! Keep’em coming!
The two of you never cease to amaze me! The hooded towel is adorable. The mouse embroidery is so cute and I love the washcloth towel. Thanks, Cindi
Just got back from the beach and boy would it have been nice to have these. I think I may need to try some for the next trip!
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Again, many thanks…Cindi
The “Arrow Cabinets – Lucy” is a fabulous piece of crafty furniture…
Merci, Cindi
LOVE this What beautiful colors-Jen
Great ideas! Thanks!
love this sewing project, I too will use some older towels I have been wanting to replace, but didn’t have good reason to, Now I have one! Thanks!!!!
I liked the embroidery designs and thought the furniture was awesome If I only had the space…
I am enjoying all of your projects. Made the pin cushion cake. I am going to try the beach towel and pouch this week
Thanks so much.
Hi, your show aired at a great time.I am going on holidays with my grandchildren and the hooded towel and pouch project is just what the doctor ordered.Thanks for a great show as usual. Barbara
The hooded towel is a fantastic idea for the beach. My granddaughter could have used one on Saturday when she was at the New Symrna Beach. I’m going to Target tomorrow to buy some towels in her favorite color. She’s a diva and would love this. Thank you!
I love you guys! Keep up the good work!
Denise
How cute! Have many babies coming due this summer. What great baby towels these would make, and especially with the right embellishment.
What a cute idea & easy project for doing the hooded bath towel. I have several grandchildren for whom it will be a great help for them & their moms. And the thread from Embroidery.com — what great innovations they’ve done to keep the thread untangled & clean. I’d love to win it.
I have had my two year old daughter grab my thread with sticky fingers and that cover is a genius idea!!!! I would LOVE to have that set, just seeing it makes me all crafty!
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Soooo cute!!!!!
I enjoyed your hooded bath towels. I will make them for my 2 nephews one is 1 year old and the other one is 4 years old. How easy and beautiful project you guys showed us! Congratulations you have a very nice show! Thanks for all the things you are teaching us!
I grew up with a hooded towel, but haven’t made one for my daughter. I am glad to know exactly how to do that! And that little 2 minute project will be perfect for my achievement day girls.
I don’t have a blog, but I will be sharing this wonderful idea with my 4 daughters. We have 5 grands so far, and they love spending the night with us and swimming in the pool, taking a bath/shower and using my fun “little people” towels. I made some for my children when they were small, and I made some for baby shower gifts as well.
They will be much cuter and more personal for the kids (and easier for me) because now I have an embroidery machine to help me. I could use some embroidery thread and the nifty storage drawer too!!! You gals keep coming up with such cute ways to make me the “world’s best” grandma (at least in my munchkin’s eyes), thank you soooo much!!!
Just went to the website and there are amazing things just as you said. I recently got an embroidery machine, but haven’t used it yet. That thread would really come in handy for my using it. I would love a give away of one of their sewing tables as well.
Wow! I love this project! I also fell in love with the thread. They really thought of everything to make an embroider’s life easier with it.
I just love this easy project. Keep it up ladies.
My DIL would probably love to have me make one for my granddaughter for bath time.
What a cute idea! LOVE IT:)
I shared on facebook and tweeted
Awesome episode! I am going to try that on receiving blankets! Thanks for all your wonderful ideas.
Sheila
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing
Shared the idea on facebook.
love the hooded towel and can’t wait to make one! Keep the ideas flowing!
Love the projects on embroidery.com. the 3d flowers are beautiful…
Thanks for the giveaway. sewcraftable@gmail.com
5/18/10 – Loved idea of hooping stabilizer instead of project. Brilliant! Thank you.
Really enjoy the craft projects but I am having a little trouble downloading directions for projects. HELP!!!!
Thanks for a great video. I’ve been wanting to make one of these for my grandchild. That Hemmingworth thread caddy looks wonderful. I really like the stabilizers that Embroidery.com carries.
Great gift for the kids. You have made it look so easy. Keep up the good work.
great idea. love the thread collection. summers in mississippi are extremely hot and pools are in high demand. the hooded towel is great! thanks for the ideas.
with 6 grandchildren im SURE this will be well used. Thanks for all your fun things that you do and Im always excited to see whats next. You all keep me busy.
I got a Hooded Towel for a gift 20+ years ago and made more for my kids and Now That is what I give as Baby/Kids Gifts and now People ask me to make them so they can make them as gifts! Great for Babies and Toddlers! LOVE THEM !!!!
I posted this on my facebook for all myfriends to use also http://www.facebook.com/#!/shannonellenburgyoung?ref=profile
They will LOVE IT
OH MY………i was wondering where these ladies get these stuffed animals to sew into their bellies and there they are on the embroidery.com web site!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!! Now i can start my christmas
Great show girls, these towels are so easy to make and they can be completely personalized. What a unique gift for even the hardest person to buy for. Keep up the great work!
Oh by the way, embroidery.com has tons of AMAZING designs and projects to choose from, I dont know where to start. I’m like a kid in a candy store…whoo…hooo!!!!!!
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The thread from Embroidery.com looks just wonderful. Your towels and their uses are perfect for the start of the beach season. Keep up the great work.
Love the project – so cute. Will be making for a baby shower coming up. The thread and covers look great!
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A wonderful project from two very talented crafters! Just love this each week for inspiration and energy. Thanks, Kim & Kris, you’re the best teachers ever!
What a cute idea, making that pouch out of a wash cloth. Any beach/swimming design would look great on it, but I can see flip flop sandals as a favorite choice. I learned what to do with all those extra wash cloths I bought when they were on sale! I am raising money for my husband’s eventual kidney transplant (he’s on the waiting list) and I know these will sell in my area since we have 412 lakes within a 25 mile circle of Detroit Lakes, MN! Thankk you for such a simple yet great idea!
How ADORABLE is that beach cover – but the real ‘wow’ for ME was the cute little over the shoulder bag! So cute for the kids…..and ideal for grown-ups too! So enjoy your show….and the ideas and the tips – please keep em coming!
Also….I LOVE the Hemmingworth thread collection…..sure would look nice in my sewing studio!
Wow! all that thread is so beautiful! I am sure I could find many thing to sew with it!!!
Thanks for the intro to Embroidery.com. It’s a great resource. I wasn’t aware that Hemmingworth made stabilizers and was happy to see them available at Embroidery.com.
Luv this great giveaway! What great colors!
I left a comment on Twitter about this giveaway!
Super cute – AGAIN!
I have always loved the incredible embroidery designs at embroidery.com! Especially interested in the Asian & Celtic designs they offer!
I just watched your tutorial on the towel wrap and loved it!! We have a brand new baby to sew for and I want to make her one for bathtime. One with some princess appliques on the back and then her name on the hood, what an adorable idea!! Thanks so much!!
Made one of the hooded towels yesterday, following your instructions! IT WAS SO EASY!! LOVED IT!!
I might even dust off the embroidery machine I bought years ago and give it a try–again!! THANKS!!
We need some new beach towels. These are on my list now!
I love machine embroidery and love thread. I have never tried the Hemingworth brand but would love to. It looks like a great product.
Love the double sided tape. Works great.
Love, Love, Love the hooded towel!! I love using hooded towels for my son…..definitely have to give this one a try!!
AWESOME project !!! Can’t wait to make some for all my little nieces and nephews ~ they’ll be the cutest kids on the beach/at the pool
Embroidery.com is the bomb ~ i use them frequently ~
Every child should have one of these hooded towels.
Cute and easy project! Thanks.
Love the hooded towels! So cute! And a great gift idea – personalized!
just love the hooded towel and tote. I have tried to make towel before but did not have access to such clear directions. Thank you so much. I am going to let 6 yr old granddaughter make her own, she wants to sew so badly, but most items are too hard for her. This is just perfect. Thanks again.
Hooded towels are the greatest easy and everyone needs one can’t wait to make more of them. Thanks Kay
Absolutely adorable, just in time for the summer pool season!
I have wanted to make these hooded towels for a long time but for some reason was intimidated. Seeing the video was so helpful because I’m very visual. They are so easy! I will make a set tonight…love the additional washcloth tote. The idea about taping the stabilizer for towel attachment is great! Thanks so much.
I went to embroidery.com. Thanks for telling everyone about their thread.
They have really used their heads to solve problems. I like the tape idea instead of the
spray adhesive that gets everywhere.
Beach towel idea-very cute! Your set looks great also.
Wow!!! This is awesome. I’ve just purchase my first embroidery machine! This would be fantastic! Everything is so cute!
I love the hooded towels. Thanks for making this video. I went to embroidery.com and checked out the thread the colors are beautiful. I have a question though, Which direction are they wound? I have a Singer XL6000 and for the thread changer to work I need the thread to wind in a clock-wise direction. Thanks again
I belong to a quilt guild, I send out the newsletter. Last month I used two of your ideas and sent your site out to 34 ladies.
This is a great idea! This will be filed away for a future baby shower gift, or toddler birthday present.
What a great idea! And you presented it so well!
awesome giveaway! thanks
Just watched for the first time and loved it… I have made these hooded bath towels, but your tips will make it much easier than what I was doing… Thanks! Gotta run now, headed to Embroidery.com!
Wow does that bring back memories! My Mom made one of these 32 years ago for my son when he was born. She used a whole washcloth for the hood and also added a couple of tucks at the back of the towel below the hood. She then crocheted a beautiful border all the way around. I still have it and use it for my grandchildren when they come. Using a washcloth eliminates the extra leftover half of handtowel. But adding the embroidery is a great idea and personalizing it is even better!! You both have given me some ‘up to date’ ideas on how to do this project again now for my grandchildren.
thank you !!
Oh, I forgot to mention the tape idea is awesome! and also Embroidery.com is a great place to do all kinds of things. They have some wonderful E-Classes that I have enjoyed learning from in the comfort of my own home. What a wonderful give away and we all each hope to be the name picked
Love the towel! I need to make some of these for my girls this summer.
I think the most amazing item on embroidery.com is the thread drawer! For someone who LOVES things to be organized this is not only beautiful but so functional. I hate having my spool rack with all the ends hanging everywhere!
Can’t wait to make a hooded towel! Perfect for the pool. I’d also LOVE to win the thread!!!!
WOW!!!! Another great idea. I Can’t wait to make these for my grandchildren. Keep em coming. I love the Hemingworth thread..
I love this! I made several of these for my DD when she was little. Now I have a cousin that I think needs one or two!!!
the hooded bath towel is the cutest thing! I can’t wait to start sewing!
Love the video. Thanks!
Another great tutorial……..I also appreciate the information you provided for setting up to do embroidery. THose threads are amazing and love the tops on them. I’m always looking for ways to get the dust off my collection of threads so from now on I’ll be buying those threads. Thanks!
I have a cricut machine and I have been giving sand pails for kids birthdays with their names on them, the hooded beach towel will make an excellent addition to the bucket as a gift. I like the idea for the older girls for the tote.
Well, how clever is that! Gonna put my new serger and embroidery machines to work! Am thinking I might change out the little pouch a bit for grandsons… maybe without flap? We’ll see.. thank you so much for your fun, fun episodes!
Embroidery.com… what can I say.. I want it all??? Like a kid in a candy store! I will go back often..
I seriously *need* that thread. My machine HATES all the thread I have and consequently I have a gazillion thread breakages every time I embroidery. I guess I need to buck up and buy some new – why do I have to have a tempermental machine? Please pick me random number generator!!!
From embroidery.com – what really interests me is thread. I have a small collection of designs, but I need some thread that doesn’t always break. Maybe I should pick needles too.
I have wanted to make these for our grandson’s, but just wanted to get “the tips” that make it easy and perfect. Thank you for making great tutorials ALWAYS great! I still went to Embroidery.com even though I don’t have an embroidery machine. It is a dream of mine to have one, but until that dream comes true I do embroidery on my sewing machine with some great techniques I learned. Hemmingworth Thread is my favorite and to have this collection in my sewing room would be another dream come true!
Love all the projects. How can we get printed instructions for all of the projects you demnonstrate on the show?
Thanks for another great project. I have three nieces who will love having one of these towels. The mouse is adorable too. I have never seen thread in such a well designed display! I’m going to check out Embroidery.com now. Thanks for sharing your projects with us!
What a great quick project. I have several grandchildren who would love this towel.(Mom’s too) It would save fighting over who’s what. I just purchased an emb. machine and am in need fo thread for it. What a good selection. Sure would love to have it.
Looks like a fun project and great gift idea!
Cute! I especially like the little totes and the embroidery.
Love your site and all the great ideas you share! Thanks.
I have always liked these towels, but, I’ve been intimidated. Not anymore! My grands will love them!
I would love to win the thread. I’ve seen it in the store. It really looks like fine quality thread.
OMGoodness! How Fun, Quick and Easy! These are the perfect pool side gift. Perfect for my little Froggy applique designs too.
Oh Kris, and I am so not a BIG FAN of hooping. I don’t hoop bulky items at all. I loved the tape that you showed. I didn’t know it existed so I will have to give that a try. Right now I have 5 stitches in my hand and hooping is not an option at the moment. This would be perfect!
I posted this episode on my Facebook page: Katelyn’s Kreative Stitches. Check it out!
Can wait to see next weeks episode!
Cannot wait to try this towel and tote! Thanks for all the fun ideas!
Love this beach project…I am planning to make these for each of my 10 grandkids. The only tip that I would add is this: I like to start with a basting stitch to hold down the water soluable stabilizer before starting a machine embroidery on a towel. It just helps to hold it down in place. Thanks again…I really enjoyed learning about this project.
I love this towl. I am going to make these for my kids. Thanks for sharing.
I have been making hooded bath towels for may grand nieces and nephews the past few months. But the washcloth bag is the perfect accessory. I’ll be making bunches! Thanks
Lovely colors! What a fun project for Summer!
I always love to try new threads. I just love fibers…lol. I hope i get a chance to sample these.
Thank you for the GREAT idea with the hooded towel. My great-grandson just moved to the coast and it will be perfect for the beach. AWESOME job again on your video!!
back yard pool party time . well I have no pool but I have an elevated sprinkler so we will have a
water park in the back yard- need 2 hooded towel
Love this cute hooded towel and caddy set!
The dragonfly needlepoint kit on the embroidery.com site is very sweet
I’m 67 years old an a newbie to sewing. I have a machine and an embrodery machine and I loved todays Episode 9. The towels are so cute and simple. I have two grandchildren that will love these and then to make the tote to match will even make it better. Thanks for your shows. I really do enjoy them.
I love the hooded beach towel. I have been making mesh screen beach bags with either “beach babe” or “surfer dude” appliqued on them. This beach towel idea will be great with these I think, I can coordinate the trims to make a really cute gift for kids of all ages. Can’t wait to try it.
Cute towels! and so easy! Thanks for the idea!
The rectangular sewing basket at embroidery.com is very cute!
Great idea! I actually received a similar one for my second child as a baby bath towel. It lasted through two more kids and my granddaughter has used it too. I think it was made with a washcloth and a smaller size bath towel. I think I will make the beach version for my granddaughter.
Just what I was looking for to make for my 2 yr old grandson!!
Love, love, love this idea. I can’t wait to make a few for nieces and nephews. I’ve been on Embroidery.com before but didn’t realize all the things they had. I love the Hemingworth thread with the covers on it. What a great idea! I have lots of spools in a box all knotted up.
I have been learning about needle felting and I liked all the beautiful colors of wool roving embroidery.com had.
Love the little mouse embroidery. I am definitely going to have to make my daughter a personalized beach towel and bag.
I’ve always wanted to make one of these and didn’t realize how easy it is! My boys are on the swim team in our neighborhood this summer and I can’t wait to make them because I have some really cute surfing applique designs for boys!
I’m so excited. The Hemingworth thread looks awesome…what a unique design to prevent tangling. I love the fact that it is bleach resistant.
Love the towel! I can’t wait to make several for friends and family. I have been purchasing items from embroidery.com for awhile. I love them!
My girls will love this! I really hate hooping, you have made my day!! I can’t wait to try the double sided tape, Thanks again!!
Wow! That looks really fast and easy! I can see making them for birthday parties this summer!
Great gift idea. Quick, easy, and almost a ’2 fer’ with the hand towel good for 2 projects. I’ll have to send this on to my VBF … she’ll love it!
Loved the show…first time seeing it. Just learning to embroidery and I learned a few tricks today! Great ideas!
OK, forwarded this on to 5 friends … hey, what if they win instead of me! LOL
I love the embroidery.com website. Have to dash back to work now. But I’m going to have some major surfing to do. I LOVE the the idea of having a cover for the thread! How cool is that!
I have always wondered if there was an easy way to make these! Thanks so much for sharing! Now I need to make one for every child in the family! Maybe if I just sew two jumbo towels together the long way I can make one for me too! LOL
I linked to your blog post on facebook and on twitter! I can’t help but share the joy in finding such a great idea!
The website has so many interesting ideas! I wish I just had a machine that could help! But their threads and sewing options are fabulous! Thanks for sharing!
My 2 kids would love hooded towels! I have seen so many for babies but none big enough for my 2. Thank you ladies!
Thanks so much! I’m such a chicken when it comes to towels, but will try this today!
I love the hooded towel. About a year ago I searched for a tutorial and found one but didn’t really like it. I love yours and will use it next time!!!!
Wow! that thread looks amazing. Love the caps on it. Cool.
I also love that double sided sticky tape. I hate hooping, too.
I love the hooded towels! Put on the list for Christmas gifts for neices and nephews. Such great ideas
The perfect cover up when getting out of those chilly northern lakes.
Great idea! I love the tutorial, thanks!!
This is fabulous – I am headed out to make this for my daughter and nephews! Excellent – on my wish list is an embroidery machine so I am hoping for one for my birthday. Thanks for the great ideas!
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Love the towel..can’t wait to make one for my grandbaby. I also love the idea of the sticky tape I also hate hooping and the spray adhesives are so messy.
Ingenious is right on the thread!! You ladies are SO entertaining!!
What an awesome project and fantastic give away!
The hooded towel is great ! I need to make these for the kids for summer.
Shared on Facebook and with sewing groups.
I love this post. I have a similar pattern but want to try this one next. I put the embroidery on the hood. Too cute! Thanks for sharing!
This is a great project for my eight year who is beginning to sew. Thanks!
I love everything at http://www.embroidery.com May need to tell hubby I want a gift card from there for the next holiday!
love the hooded towel Idea, and sooooooo easy too.
yeah it’s only around two thousand dollars to buy one of each color of thread from embroidery.com. I better start saving up, cause I can’t just pick a few.
I went to embroidery.com and yes, the embroidery tape is very affordable. I also dislike hooping. I would love to hear what other methods you use to avoid it when possible.
What a terrific project. I will be making them for amy grandchildren.
Wow, getting some great ideas here! keep up the good work Kim and Chris. I have been trying to do these types of towels and I’m thrilled to have a pattern to follow. Thanks!
I love the little tote bag!!! I used to live in Hawaii and am having a pool party so will be doing a whole heap of totes for the girls who are coming.
Wow this is an awesome prize!! Thanks for the chance to win! Love the hooded towel too!
I love Embroidery.com! There are so many things to choose from! I love the e-classes especially the Generations software eclass! Also the tutorial dvd’s from Linee G for the Generations software. The embroidery designs are great, sooooooo many to choose!
I just LOVE all the fun projects ya’ll share! I cannot wait to try this one out – embroidery on towels is my favorite – we cannot ever have enough of them around for this or that! And I always make them for gifts – easy to do for boys or girls! Thanks so much!
Jenny
Great summer project and one to have the kids learn to stitch. That thread assortment/caddy looks wonderful ~ would love to win!!! Thanks for the chance.
Can’t wait to win that thread! PICK ME!
Such a cute beach towel or bath towel. My now seven year old daughter (just had a birthday) is trying to make one this very minute after watching the show. She loves you guys as much as I do. Thanks. Planning on giving one for a birthday party this week.
Love the hooded towel. Going to make several for a craft booth this summer.
This is awesome!! I would LOVE to win this!! What a great episode, thank you so much for all of your inspiring ideas. I can’t wait to try this one.
What a cute idea! AND kids love their own personalized towels!
Great project for me and my granddaughter to do together. She’s 11 and loves to sew new projects and quite willing to learn. Thanks so much for your great show, I love it!!!
I am having trouble viewing the entire video. It stops at the point where you are clipping the threads.
Is it just me ? Can someone check on this ? Thanks, love your ideas and presentations.
awesome craft! and easy! I know just who to make these for! I love your website girls!! Keep up the good work!
I am making one of these for my kiddos! TOO cute!
I also checked out embroidery.com and posted a link to this through Facebook.
Awesome episode ladies! I’m so glad to know about Hemingworth!! Thank you for sharing that site!
What a fun webisode
We received a handmade hooded towel from a family friend when we were expecting our first baby. And we also received a handful of the store bought hooded towels. The purchased towels lasted for just awhile but the handmade hooded towel just barely wore out. Oldest boy is 12 today! Handmade is just so great. Talk about a great gift that the kids all loved and that lasted all through 4 kids and more than a decade. Thanks for all of the fun shows you two put together and I love learning about the neat craft tools and supplies you feature each week. Have a great day!
Woneful pisoe 9 My 4 gandkids will have the hooded beach towel to take to their home on the beach. Great gift.
I loved the Hooded Beach Towel episode. I have 3 granddaughters and one on the way. This would be perfect for any of them. Awesome project!
You were right about Embroidery.com. They have a ton of blanks and with a new granddaughter on the way I could use some of those. Thank you for the tip.
Love the hooded towels.
On my way to the store to get some supplies to make one or two or ten.
I checked out embroidery.com. I relly liked the 6 pack Hemingworth color packs. What a great way to start a collection.
That thread would be so very awesome to win—-mine sits in boxes, but these with the covered domes are just wonderful and they will brighten the sewing rooms also.
Love everyone of your episodes,,, thank you so much for sharing everything!!!!! HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
EVERYONE!!!!!
Joanne
great easy idea thanks
Great Ideas, keep up the good work. Love the thread by the way!!
I thought we had a chance to win thread CANDY, and got really excited! I imagined bright colours, with sweet smells as you sew….
Great video; I have made hooded towels for a few parents/kids; even had a request from a friend for some for a baby shower gift; I love the embroidery on the towels; and would love the thread; My granddaughter/Anslee 3 y/o will be taking swimming lessons and towel has to stay at daycare; so plan to put her name on hers so (like her) it will really be special; Thanks so much for this video; and the
wash cloth tote is so cute; wondering if could be made with the rest of that hand towel left from the
hooded/towel; just wondering
Love the hooded towel! What a great idea to use the sticky tape! Definitely trying that!
I have an embroidry machine but have not mastered it yet – I hope to do so soon – I would love to have some nice thread to use. Fabulous website at embroidery.com – so much to choose from – just awesome! Keep up the great diydish – you gals look like your’re having lots of fun!
great projects. enjoy your show very much.
How cute is that!!! I’m thinking I can make one for my grandchild who is a toddler out of a smaller towel, and her older brother and they won’t be fighting over whose is whose!!!
I LOVED this project and how cute would those hooded towels be with some of the fun printed towels you can find now, which are great for those who don’t have embroidery machines, I am looking forward to making some of these for my kids this summer!
My neice asked me to make a hooded towel for her little boy. I was not sure how to do this. Your video really helped me Thanks!!! I will be making these hooded towels for my granddaughter and for shower gifts! You two are so cute!!! Love your show!!!
I went to Embroidery.com and love it! I will be ordering the double stick tape and some of the hoodies! thanks for the information and website! By the way I love Hemmingworth Thread, I have used to several times! Great Quality and Great colors!
These are so useful and great for children. I love how you decorated them. The little bag was also great.
WOW, OH, WOW – the video was so clean and concise – making the hooded beach towel is easier than I ever thought ! Am going to wip a bunch up in preparation for the upcoming memorial holiday weekend. This is the perfect project for everyone! Plan to make matching beach bags for everyone to keep suntan lotion, combs, body cream, and other beach necessities in. Even for the kids. A matching hooded beach towel and beach bag to carry their sand buckets and collection of sea shells in make them happy and feel important ! Thank’s for the great instructional video! Oh, and by changing the towel and embroidery design, this is the perfect gift for those College students for graduation! Oh, and I can keep going – with holiday or winter designs these would make the perfect gift for all those people on your list that you want to say Thank you to for all the things they have done for you without investing a great deal of money. Can’t thank you enough for the great video.
Your projects are so wonderful!! My kids are begging for the towels and I can’t wait to make some!!
I love the hooded towels, I am planning on tweeking this project for my tween!
Thanks for the tutorial – what a great summer birthday gift!
I sent this link to several of my friends. I know they’ll enjoy something so quick and easy to make.
Visited Embroidery.com. Thanks for the tip on the Super Solv, also came across the permanent toppper sheets as well.
Thanks so much! Super cute. Can’t wait to try!
I love the hooded towels, this is the easiest pattern I have seen for this. Also love the threads. Now I wish I had an embroidery machine!
Awesome project!!!!
As always…something new and easy to make!!!
Thanks so much!!! I might have to make these for my cousins!!!
I went to Embroidery.com…I wish I had an embroidery machine!!!
Great birthday gifts for kids, plus – it is inexpendsive!!
LOVE that sewing chair and would love some of their sewing cabinets on embroidery.com!
Visited embroidery.com and I am in love with the Hemmingworth Thread. I will be buying some in the near future!!!
I’ve been making these towels for years! They are wonderful for babies! My daughter is a teacher and we make them for every baby that is born. The mothers all ask for more later. Much better than the thin baby towels sold in stores. Love your tutorial. It was very informative! Hope everyone tries one. they are fun AND easy! Thanks again! lynne
Loved the washcloth tote,would have never thought of it. And my granddaughter need an after bath wrap for when she visits, will be making both these projects with my granddaughter, she will love them. Excellent show.
Linda E
Idaho
I just sent a link to some of my embroidery buddies.
Linda E
I went to embroidery.com site and love how there thread works and there designs are cute too.
Linda E
That hooded towel is such a clever idea! I am going to make it for my great granddaughter. I am on my way to embroidery.com
Thanks so much for the great video!
WOW I am going to use this as my CLUBHOUSE PROJECT for JUNE. Thank you so much for your wonderful ideas.
This project is so much nicer than a hooded towel I had seen before. Thanks for such useful and fun information on your DIY episodes.
I love these towels to bad as a grandma we have all sons and grandsons that are to big for these. As an adult who isn’t overly proud of my body I would love to see one of these made for adults. You know how it is we go out to our pools and when we get out we have only one towel with us and don’t know weather to cover up or dry our hair. I wouldn’t object to a big size hooded towel to hide in when I get out of our pool. I am going to make some of these right away for the daughters of some friends. Already have the towels ready to sew.
Those are the most beautiful colors ever!! Such a cute project!!
Oh my gosh!!!! Such cute projects! I will be making the hooded towels for my grandchildren!!! Thank you for another great episode!!!
Looking forward to making the cute picnic quilt. With four girls who could go wrong and this is so simple they can help.
Thanks,
Anna
I have shopped at Embroidery.com before and find the service and products to be excellent. I really like the section on projects. Lots of great inspiration!
I do the happy dance when I see your faces on the DIY episodes. What an easy project the hooded towel is. I am going to start sewing now. Love the thread what a giveaway. Thanks
I love the towels, I added peddles around the face to make a flower around the face…oh so cute.
The hooded towel is sew cute! I posted the link on my Facebook page and emailed to my sewing friends! I LOOOOOVE the Hemingworth Thread! I am fortunate enough to have a supplier nearby and I have purchased a couple spools, they are the best! I would love to have a collection of all their colors in a drawer would be even better! Oooooh I hope I win!
This was the 1st that I had heard of your website. A fun video & I’m bookmarking it so that I will be sure to come back & see what you will do in the future.
Awesome show!
I love all the cool embroidery designs, so cute! I hope I win.
Cute quick project!!
I’m excited to make one for my little girl!!
I used to make these hooded towels for my sons many, many years ago, but since they are all grown up- I had forgotten all about them! What a perfect idea for a toddler gift – personalized and practical. Something that every Mom would love. I love my embroidery machine, and am always looking for a new project to “gussy up”. And you’re right gals- I definitely was drooling when I saw that sewing caddy brimming full of Hemingworth threads. They reminded me of all the wonderful flavours of ice cream just beckoning behind the glass at the ice cream parlour. Which gives me an idea- I’ll embroider ice cream cones on the towels- perfect for a hot day at the beach!
Hi girls! Great episode! I have wanted to make these for my girls, and this just might be the push I needed to do it;) I will be adding hand pockets to the upper inside corners. I got this idea from a commercially bought towel that we have. I may use the other half of the hand towel to do this, just thought I’d share this, as it makes the towel nice and snuggly.
Me again. Just wanted to post that I tweeted this @wordupwallart Thanks for all the fantastic giveaways from you and your sponsers!
Okay, so I’m not new to embroidery.com, but I have to say, I often go there just to browse the machine embroidery designs. Well, I took your advise and looked around and found something I’ve got to get. As a hairbow designer with large fingers, I have yet to find a thimble that feels comfortable. Here’s my answer: http://www.embroidery.com/product.asp?sid={BE96C070-BA07-4A65-B53C-B4A24ABC830D}&EFID=1128&productsetid=62994&shopstop=1 Self adhesive thimbles!! Yay.
Here’s the product name, since the link doesn’t work (too long I think) COLONIAL Self-Adhesive Thimble-It Finger Pads 64/Pkg (082375)
Thanks for showing us to make a fast easy gift. Great show !
FUN!!! I can’t wait to make some.
Love the beach cover-up. Sorry I couldn’t watch the video(very old and slow computer) but I get the idea from the pics.
Embroider.com is a great site not only to shop but to get ideas for new projects.