Hooded towels make great shower gifts for children and adults alike. You can buy them from several places on the Internet, and some of these stores allow you select personalization options when you are purchasing. However, these online stores are often quite expensive when choosing each personalization, and if you are buying multiple towels at once the cost can quickly add up. Here are three ways you can personalize hooded towels yourselves, or you can take them as a suggestion to your tailor so that they can make the alterations for you:

1.) Attach shapes (appliqués) onto the back of the towel.

This is simple enough to do. If you have even a little bit of sewing experience, you should find this very straightforward pull off. Simply get your shapes, place them on the back of the towel, and use a zig zag stitch to hold the shape fast. Easy right?

2) Sew names onto the back of the hooded towel.

This is a great idea if your children tend to fight over everything! You can get personalized names on the towels and you can say goodbye to wash-based arguments. You can get sew on letters on many places on the Internet, here is one such good place to buy them from: http://easternlettering.net/cart/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=18

Alternatively, if you go to your local arts and crafts store they will have a wide selection of different styles for you to buy.

3) Apply lining tape onto the edges of the towel

This is a great final touch to add onto a towel, and it adds an element of uniqueness that you cannot find (cheaply) on the Internet. All you need to buy is the color of double folded Bias tape that you prefer. Then it is again a case of just sewing on the tape around the edges of the hood to finalize the look.
Remember that you don’t have to do all these things by yourself, you can easily take them to a tailor and he should be able to add them on to you a lot cheaper than you would have to pay if it you where to order that when buying over the net.
I hope you find this useful, and I hope you live near to a cheap tailor!