Mermaid Tail Towel Tutorial

Hello Friends! As you saw last week, we recently had a super fun Mermaid Birthday Party for our NOW 4 yr old daughter. When my little girl suggested she wanted a Mermaid Party I just knew I wanted to do Mermaid Tail Towels as favors! I searched the internet to only find a few very expensive tail towels. That's when I decided to take matters into my own hands! I found a whole stack of towels in the $ section at Target, picked up some Bias tape and ribbon and went to work. I of course called on my ever talented Husband to draw me an awesome Mermaid Tail pattern. He drew it onto some construction grade brown paper but you could use whatever you have on hand even cardboard would work. I would've done it but he always is so precise (and patient) and I knew it would turn out symetrical if he did it rather than if I did it, it would probably end up looking something like a pony's tail or something lol.

So here is the process I went through. Now you go and make one for the Little Mermaid in your life!

Here is what You'll need:

Beach Towel (I actually used a few regular sized towels as well because the kiddos were pretty small)

Bias Tape (I used double fold and I had to use 1 and a half packs per towel)

Ribbon

Pins

Scissors

Mermaid Tail Pattern http://www.stitchtomylou.com/freebies/patterns/Mermaid-Tail.PDF
(feel free to download mine, or just freehand your own)
*If you click on this link please do not sale the pattern or items made from the pattern, THANKS! 

Step one:

Cut out and Pin your Mermaid tail Pattern to your Beach Towel.

Step two:

Cut out your Mermaid Tail :) SO Easy So far right?!

Step three:

Pin Bias Tape all around the edges of the tail. Sew away! I sewed a simple straight stitch because the towels that I purchased were so thin and did not like a serge but I would recommend serging the edges. The downfall of $ section towels-way to thin.

Step four:

I simply eyeballed the length that I wanted the ribbon to be, but you could wrap it around your mermaid's waist to see how much you would need to wrap around and tie a bow. Once you have your ribbon cut, pin it to the top of your tail and sew.

Now you have a fabulous Mermaid Tail towel!

If you do end up making one, email a photo of it at jmiscisin@sbcglobal.net and I will post it on the blog :)

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