Wednesday, May 20, 2009

What's in a name?

I'm up to the 9th button hole on the Buttony sweater, but i've put it down for the moment, not only because i'm moving out of my flat this weekend (finally - that's another long story!), but because i'm also making up some new stuff. A friend of mine from work makes candles and quilts, and is going on a roadtrip tour around the North Island in July to try and sell them to different places - and she's asked if I want to make some knitted things to go with it! Of course I said yes :)

But that meant coming up with a name to sell under. You may remember a while ago I asked for suggestions, thinking that Monarch Knits sounded good to me, and you agreed. I changed my mind though, now that i'm sewing and wouldn't only be selling knitting, and decided on Monarch Creations. Unfortunately, my mum was in Melbourne last week and brought back a present - and its brand was Monarch Creations! So there went that idea. We were pondering changing it to MonArk Creations, or something similar - mum's obsessed with Noah's Ark - but that still didn't sit right with me. I decided that I don't really like the look of monarch butterflies anyway - orange isn't my colour, I prefer blue.

So I googled 'butterfly species' and it came up with a couple of suggestions - I was going to go with Ulysses, because I love their colour. That was until I came across the Summer Azure Butterfly. The original picture I saw showed them in an even-more-gorgeous pale blue colour, so that settled it. THEN I saw the genus name for them - Celastrina neglecta. See that? CelasTRINA. That's me! (Ok, its pronounced 'sell-us-TRY-nah', but still!) And so a store name was born. All it took then was an email to my clever sister, who came up with this logo for me*, to which I added my own image:

"Ok, who did you have to bribe to get a butterfly named after you!!"
- Mum

I'm glad its all coming together. Now all I have to do is start making stuff to sell! I have a few ideas, but it will mean that things will probably be quiet on here until I have it all done. But don't worry, you'll be the first to know when things are up and running!

~Happy Knitting!~

*she also noted that the font used for Celastrina is 'Edwardian' - to fit my Twilight obsession!!

6 comments:

Sarah Glova said...

nice job!! Your sisters logo looks great as well!! Way to think through that, I'm so bad at making decisions of that nature. Love the end result :)

2BSewing: said...

Trina...your logo is perfect and so is the name! Wow! Amazing how things come together. You have been truly blessed. I am so happy for you. :)

Glad to hear you are still making progress on your Buttony. :)

Moving, again?

Karen said...

Oh this is so exciting!!! And I think the way the name fell into place is a very good omen for your budding business. :)

Rachel said...

Thank you so much for commenting on my blog. THe sweater pattern I am going to use is St. James. Here is a link to it:
http://www.metapostmodernknitting.com/MetaPatterns/StJames/tabid/86/Default.aspx

Jasmine's Mommy said...

Great logo! Good luck on your move :)

RedCurlGirl said...

i'm so jealous. my mom's been trying to teach me to knit for a year and i'm pretty sure i'm all thumbs.

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