A little help from Korean visitors

 is requested

Now Google stats tell me that I do occasionally get visits to the blog from people in Korea. I am hoping that is correct, and that those visitors might be able to help me with my Forestella fan quilt project.

Or any linguists that might be popping in.

So far it has the Apocalypse Logo quilted on it each join in the sashing.

But what I want to do is add the members names in Korean on the sashing. That means I have a restricted space for the lettering to go. If I was stretching and compressing the letters in English to fit, well I would know if it was still readable once done. I know that calligraphy can take some liberties with letter formation and indeed I have done so on past projects. However, doing the same in an alphabet I am less confident with is another matter and I worry that in contorting the letter arrangement to fit the space they are loosing the  integrity of the characters in the process.

So, before I go as far as making templates, let alone quilting them I would like your thoughts on the legibility, and as the size differs between the vertical and horizontal sashing your thoughts on trying to fit the lettering into the thinner vertical.

So here are the four names in the horizontal space.

Original intent is for the top two to be in this orientation and the bottom two to be on the vertical , but I did them on the horizontal as well just in case the vertical is not workable.

Comments on how the two different orientations  of these names work would also be appreciated.

Thank you.

It is now 16th Feb, and there have been no comments on the blog about how the letters look in either direction.

Happily for me the Forestella Together Fan page of Facebook have been a little more engaged and have answered me.

As a result I am proceeding with the letters on the Horizontal only . The templates are cut out, Yet another arrangement considered and the marking on done. 

I have the first three names stitched and only the third section of the fourth name to go..well for the first set that is. The current plan is for four, I don't expect that to change as I have marked them on with T-Shirt pens and not washable markers.

I have You Tube playlists for their songs together but I also have playlists for the solo songs of each, I might just play those whilst stitching individual names.

I am adding pictures of the templates and markings, but I don't intend to show progress pictures until all of the names are on and the next step is settled in my mind, yes those vertical sashes!

Weetabix boxes are so very useful, nice solid cardboard, I can keep these in case I need them again at some point.

Happily that was also true of the logo templates as I need to add another six, due to the rethink that just using the horizontal has required.

I do keep laughing at myself as this quilt started out as a quick tester and because I did not feel like stitching around squares has evolved into something more and more complicated on the quilting side.

Sometimes that happens, OK so with me sometimes is quite often, and my shortcuts end up being the long way around. I should just embrace my tendency to complicate in the first place, that would be quicker..