I tried a new way of laying out lettering/script

[mig-3]

I don't have a pattern making program and I'm too lazy to sit and manually hash out the lettering for a design. BUT, I'm modding a pattern and need to insert completely different lettering. Here's what I did.

I measured the rectangular area, in stitches, into which my lettering needed to fit. I marked the area on XS tracing graph paper. (Available from the Yarn Tree and other online shops.)

I wrote my lettering in a script font in Microsoft Word and printed it out. I resized it on the copy machine at work to properly fit in the outlined area of my graph paper. (You could do the same without a copy machine by adjusting the font size on your computer. I'm too cheap to waste the ink.)

I then aligned the copy under my tracing paper. I penciled in the lettering and that's it. I had a custom lettering pattern in a nice script.

Who's first to tell me it's an old trick?

[Squirrel]

Great going Jarvis.

I would not have thought of using a photocopier to resize it to fit I would just have spent the time redoing by hand.

BTW you can get graph paper via Google. I find it's easier than chasing down a stationary store with some.

Looking forward to seeing some pics of it stitched up.

[Mystonique]

Don't know if it's old but that's how I've always done it ... I'm too stupid to try and fit the letters otherwise: just let the copier do it for me.

[agi]

Great idea! Love it