Chevron Monogram

Ever since I got married in September, I've been obsessed with monograms.  My mother embroidered beautiful monogram towels for my bathroom as my bridal shower gift.  What I really wanted now was a big "G" to put on the door of our new apartment.  It's something you really can't do when you're single and living with roommates.  But now that we're starting our own family in a new space, I wanted to make it feel like our home.

So I purchased an unfinished wood letter "G" from the craft store for about $3.

Before.

It was a no-brainer what design to paint on it.  Chevron is everywhere right now, and I'm in love.  But I really had no idea what the best way to get the design onto the letter was.  What I ended up doing was printing a picture of a chevron design off of the internet.  I then cut along the top line of the design and used it as a pattern to trace, sliding it down in even increments as I went. 

Pattern.

Traced chevron.

I debated taping off each color as I painted in order to get straight lines, but it seemed like it would be a huge, time-consuming hassle, so I just free-handed it, using paint leftover from other projects.

One color down, two to go.

After the black was fully dry, I proceeded to the gray.  A small paint brush was key, as was having enough paint on the brush to do full, smooth strokes, instead of small, choppy ones.

Getting closer!

Again, once the gray was dry, I could paint the third color.  But you could do only two colors, as seen in the pattern, or a rainbow of colors.  I also painted around the edges of the the "G" which is about 1/4 of an inch thick.  I glued a scrap piece of ribbon to the back to hang it from, and it's done!

After!