Though I rarely wear these, I very much like them. I like the way you can easily add them to whatever fabric you want to, telling people something about you, or your mood, or to amuse them with a funny quip or picture.
As with so many things that I like, and where I think the world needs more of, after a while, I'm getting an itch to have it made, and offer it in the shop. (Yes, I know, it's not medieval at all. That's why I have the "miscellaneous" section, and I'm actually pondering making a "This Is Not Medieval but Fun" section in the shop. Though I might call it "Modern Shenanigans" instead - much shorter.)
There was one teeny tiny problem, though. To have a nice button, you need a nice design - and I wanted something more than just a random selected font centred on a round button to write stuff. That's just... hm. Well.
It is, of course, technically possible to make a button design like this with hand-lettering. This could even be enhanced with a bit of a drawing, where it suits, here and there. Which would be a spectacularly wonderful thing, but unfortunately, both my drawing skills and my hand-lettering skills are, at best, mediocre.
And then it somehow struck me. I could knit the button design. Because... well... that's how my brain works, sometimes, when I wake up early on a Saturday morning.
So I sat down, and I cast on some stitches, and I made this:
and showed it to the Most Patient Husband, and he said "maybe do it with smoother yarn", and he suggested some cotton yarn that I had lying around, so I finally got to use my very small needles as well, and I made this:
and this could actually already be turned into a button design, and it would look like this:
or, with the first version, like this:
and I must admit it amuses me no end. It's knit and says knit. Knit knit. Ah. (Yes, I'm easy to amuse.)
So. Should I do this? Get these printed as buttons? And if so, which version?