Over the last week or so I've been designing a banner to be used by the Mornington Peninsula and Bayside Stitchers group, a group I am a member of on Ravelry. I joined the group a couple of months ago after finding them when I searched for groups around my locality. I noticed early in the peace, that the group didn't have a banner and was using the name of the group as its banner. So just plain text. I'm essentially a pictures person, so each time I logged on and saw the plain text, the thought crossed my mind that "I'll design a banner soon", until last Sunday 31st August.
After a particularly punishing personal training session, I was feeling somewhat sore and sorry for myself. The weather too was rather pathetic, and so I spent the day on the couch downloading images, researching local images, and trialling some initial designs.
The initial design, before I found out there was a standard size for the banner.
Version 2 of the banner (below)
A little 'washed out' for my liking, My idea here was to enlarge the bathing boxes for some added detail, but because of the size of the banner, I felt you couldn't see enough of them. In version 1 it was decidedly more obvious what the bathing boxes were, and the colours themselves looked so much better. I decided to revert back to that styling in my next design.
Version 3 of the banner (below)
With the bathing boxes restored to their previous glory, I added the panoramic image of the boats and jetty, aswell as an image of one of Live2Knit's 'Wired for fibre Olivia' yarns.
Version 4 of the banner (below)
Not happy with the way the Text disappeared into the image in version 3, my goal here was simply to make it stand out some more. I was pretty happy with the banner at this stage.
Version 5 of the banner (below)
What I think will be the final version, encorporates Live2Knit's 'Wired for fibre Olivia' yarn, SpindleImp's Arabian night's lace weight yarn, and images of some of Mornington Peninsula's bathing boxes.
I really enjoy designing these things, and I hope the group loves it aswell.
The Mornington Peninsula and Bayside Stitchers are an amazingly talented group, their talent matched only by their friendliness. Now that the banner is finished it's back to the knitting.
Take Care all
freebs
1 comment:
Thanks for creating the banner for our group, you've done a fantastic job!
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