Kohl's inspired hooded monster towel

Tristan's friend from next door has this very cute Hooded Monster T

owel that his mom bought at Kohl's a while ago.

It really is as cute as it looks on the picture and in my opinion it's a must-have for every little boy. So, because mama is not ok with spending $30 on a Monster Towel, she must try and make one by her self. And so I did!

For one Monster Towel you will need 1 bath towel and 1 hand towel for the body and the hood. The orange towel is for horns and spikes (they are on the back, you can't see them on the picture) and it also will be a hood for my second towel for my daughter. The white hand towel I already had on hand (for the teeth) and I got the yellow-blue towel in DI for $0.50

for the yellow parts on monster's eyes.

Next, I made the stencils. Then pinned them on the fabric and cut them all out.

Next, I assembled the eyes. Each eye contains 3 parts- white, yellow and black. And black is just a circle cut out of cotton fabric. Then using zig-zag stitch on my sewing machine I sewed them on top of each other.

Next, horns. I sewed the two sides together and stuffed them only with 2 layers of scraps.

The teeth is the same story, except I didn't stuff them. Then I pinned and sewed all the pieces to the right side of the face and zig-zagged the raw edges.

Then put the back of the hood on top of the face and sewed it together. The hood was done. Next, the spikes. I didn't want them to be 3D so there wouldn't be any bumps, when the towel is laid down flat. I decided to just sew them on top of the towel using the zig-zag stitch.

Now, all that was left to do was to attach the hood and the towel together. The awesome part was that both pieces already had the original finished edge where I needed it, so it was not a big deal to figure it out how to make it look finished.

And it was done!!! The total cost is $8. Not so bad for a towel that looks just like the one from Kohl's and costs almost 4 times as much.