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Buttons Under Construction!

Let me tell you about buttons. Not the kind to close your garments, but the kind with a pin on the back that you pin to your clothing, or backpack, or whatever, to make a statement.

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?
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Harma on Dienstag, 09. Juli 2019 10:19

The one with the green border looks better. Are you thinking about asking the printer to make them in a variety of colours?

Can your perfectionists side live with the fact that the N is so much wider than all the other letters? The second leg could be done one row earlier without losing impact, leaving better proportions.

The one with the green border looks better. Are you thinking about asking the printer to make them in a variety of colours? Can your perfectionists side live with the fact that the N is so much wider than all the other letters? The second leg could be done one row earlier without losing impact, leaving better proportions.
Katrin on Dienstag, 09. Juli 2019 11:35

Colour variety is something I'd have to do myself, that's nothing the printer will do.

And yes, I can totally live with the wide n. I've tweaked in the meantime, but I have come to the conclusion that knitted letters can be pretty close to really good typography... but not hit it 100%. There will always be little issues with curves or start and end jaggedness.
I will just say it's a feature

Colour variety is something I'd have to do myself, that's nothing the printer will do. And yes, I can totally live with the wide n. I've tweaked in the meantime, but I have come to the conclusion that knitted letters can be pretty close to really good typography... but not hit it 100%. There will always be little issues with curves or start and end jaggedness. I will just say it's a feature ;)
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