So, in just over a month, my baby heads off to college. We've been busy getting things together for him to move into the dorm. I bought him some nice masculine grey towels. I've struggled though with wanting to monogram them. Not some girly swirly thing, but just something so that he will know which towels are his. I finally settled on a tone on tone design. After playing around with 3 letter and 2 letter block styles, I finally opted for just the single letter of his first name.
First, I decided I would put a 1" W on the corner of his wash rags. I struggled with placement. The first one was a little low and the second wash rag was a little high, but finally I got it just right on the hand towels. I had thought I would put a large W in the middle of the bath towel, but after doing the hand towels I decided to continue with the same idea. I used a 2" W in the same font since the field where I placed it was wider.
The towels are now washed, put away and ready to go to school. But here's the thing..... I didn't tell my son I did this. Shhhhh.....don't rat me out. Do you think he will notice? I think they almost look like a logo for the company that made the towels. Personally, I love the tone on tone colors. I may have to do some like this for the master bath. Maybe I'll try an embossed design.
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