Mon, 14 Aug 2023
We've been acquiring pins at various outdoor festivals, and I keep feeling the need to make my own. But that would mean shaving a yak: the NickAinley alphabet is missing a lot of punctuation glyphs, but also fun pin designs need a more casual font. I first fiddled around with a smaller Bluenesia with a contour fill - the pronoun pins are the smallest the satin can really go. The contour ends up pretty blobby, so I reluctantly started in on a running-stitch version. I like it so far, but I think it needs a repeat to make it a little more emphatic.
In the meantime, I do have a finished feltie/pin design:
It's a freebie, just the naked design (no instructions) but it's pretty straightforward. It's a 4x4-filling 9-up design, and the final stitch is where you put the backing on the underside of the hoop and it hides the embroidery. Then you glue a bar pin or badge reel or whatever on.
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