PLUSH Typeface
How can exploration of typographic form translate into knitting? What role do collaboration and play have?
Project Goals:
Learn how to make a typeface
Create a typeface that can be knit
Learn to knit well
Make a sweater
Share with others
Initial knit type specimens for PLUSH
Acrylic stockinette stitch block, with various colors of acrylic yarn stitched overtop. 6.5”x6.5”, 2021.
The Type Specimen Sweater - 2021
Sweater Pattern by WellLovedKnits on Etsy: Cozy Mock-Neck Sweater
PLUSH for Quilts
In 2024 I started adapting PLUSH to be usable in sewn mediums. I had transitioned from primarily knitting, to focusing more on quilting, and wanted to bring the typeface with me. What other mediums can this be translated into in the future?
“ALL HAIL COMPLEXITY”
23”x68”, hand dyed cotton, machine pieced and quilted. 2024.
“Everything is terrible, it’s true. Lately I walk around feeling like my heart has been physically bifurcated, and yet also everything is gorgeous! We contain multitudes, the trees contain multitudes, all hail complexity.”
PLUSH began as experimentation with a form I found appealing. It’s so exciting to watch it be translated into different mediums and used for different purposes.
PLUSH began with PLAY, and it seems to want to stay that way.
“COOL!”
Hand dyed wool yarn, embroidered with a duplicate stitch on a swatch of double stockinette acrylic. 6”x6”, 2023.
“A”
PLUSH for quilt initial test. Hand dyed cotton, machine pieced and quilted. 6”x6”, 2023.
