In last week’s post I asked the kids to sign the artwork they painted on our garden shed. I was surprised that they both decided to use only their initials (click here to read that post).
Over the years I’ve also signed things with my initials and I’ve done some other fun things with them too. When Wendy and I led our Hawaiian cruise, we came up with a project using our initials in our own version of Hawaiian appliqué (to read that post click here).
The green quilt includes the initials for our travel name: Sew We Go ~ SWG ~ in the design. The yellow one has my own initials ~ CLK.
A long time ago I came up with a quick signature using my initials. I like to utilize it when signing small or artsy quilts. When I wrote “Where Do I Start With Fiber Art” I decided it would be fun to autograph the books with my personal “brand” 😊.
Recently my friend, Lori Jean Schloesser, signed the back of one of her art quilts with her version of her initial autograph, along with the year.
She embroidered it ~ and everyone in our art guild was intrigued. So we decided to play around with our initials during our meeting. I thought you’d enjoy seeing some of the trials:
Connie sent me a photo of her 2 favorites ~
Lori mentioned that we didn’t need to include our middle initial, and it didn’t really matter which one came first or was bigger. It’s the artist’s choice and there’s no right or wrong. We can even choose to come up with a new design down the road 😊.
Kay’s initials are KAC, and here is her trial page:
I like the ones where the A fits into the bottom of the K. But it’s not up to me, and Kay wasn’t sure which one was “the one” by the end of the meeting.
Barb’s initials are BAG, and here’s her trial page ~
I tend to prefer the ones where the small g fits into the bottom of the capital B. It will be fun to see which one she’ll choose.
Lori also mentioned finishing the initials by placing them in a circle, square or other shape; or even reversing a letter. Hmm. So many fun ideas that I decided to play a little more in a drawing program on my computer:
I’m still kind of partial to my original design, but it was fun to do a little doodling.
So, do you have an “initial signature”? If not, I highly recommend doodling around and seeing what you come up with. If you come up with your own unique brand, please feel free to share it by sending me a photo at: .
judy says
Always interesting. Thanks Chris
" class="comment-author-link" rel="external nofollow" itemprop="url">SUSAN L MEYER says
My signature is my three initials, lower case and cursive when possible. slm When papercrafting or other crafts, slm designs is my preferred logo.
Mary Miller says
I feel like you and I are on the same wave length with our choices of favorites. None are right or wrong , just different.
Shasta says
That is interesting. The creative ones are fun, but will be hard for people in the future to identify them easily, unless the person becomes really famous.
Margaret (Peg) Larson says
Our father developed a logo using the letters in our last name. It was an easy way to mark our things with no risk that someone else would have the same marking.