Santa Suit Christmas Hand Towels

What’s the Project? This cute Santa hand towel makes a great gift for neighbors or friends this Christmas season. Easy to make and it’s so cute!

Does it seem like with the introduction of Pinterest into the world neighbor gifts are getting more and more creative each year? I know my neighbors are getting downright amazing with their little gifts they drop off. So creative! Kind of puts the pressure on to come up with something cute!

So, after a little brainstorming this year, here is what I came up with for a cute, creative and fun neighbor gift. Oh how I love it!

A Santa Suit hand towel! (Or dish towel-whichever.) Love how it turned out!

Now, this is easy and it costs probably about $4 is all (and takes like 10 minutes), BUT, you do need to know how to sew. It’s very simple sewing, a couple of straight lines, you can do it.

Santa Hand Towels for Christmas:

Supplies Needed:

1 red dish towel or hand towel (Mine came from Target and cost $2.99 each)
12 inches of thick black ribbon
16 inches of silver (or gold) ribbon
1/8 yard of white fur

(Let me just mention that with some of these supplies (like the fur) you will be able to make about 8 or more hand towels-so buy more towels if you think you want to make a bunch.)

How to Sew:

Grab your red towel and pin the black ribbon in place where you want it on the towel leaving about 1 inch hanging off on either side:

Stitch along the top of the ribbon, down the side and across the bottom, then back up the other side. As you get to the edges, just fold that part that is hanging over the edge under so that it gets sewn into place too like this:

Now cut your silver (or gold) ribbon into pieces that are approximately 3 3/4″ long. (It’s going to vary a little depending on how wide your black ribbon is.

Make them into a square at the center of your black ribbon, making sure to match up all the corners nicely to make it a perfect square and then stitch around the outside of the square and again around the inside:

Last, cut your fur to be about 3-4 inches wide and as long as your dish towel is wide. Pin it in place and sew it across the top and sides. (Boy does that fur make a mess when you cut it!)

That’s it. Not too hard right? And so cute and fun. And these cute Santa hand towels are not something they are likely to get from anyone else.

(I have to warn you though-that fur makes a HUGE mess! My floor was covered with it!)