HELP me make this work!!! - Wedding Forum

spicey · #1 (**permalink**) 13-08-2005, 01:24 PM

Ok so I'm knitting a baby blanket and had the idea to put the babies initial in the middle. The letter and the thin border I am putting round are a different colour. But my problem is I can't print the font for the letter I want large enough, and I don't know how else to do it.
Any ideas????

Copperhead · #2 (**permalink**) 13-08-2005, 03:35 PM

Can't you use a Word Processor then just enlarge the font in that? How have you been trying to do it?

Mrs F · #3 (**permalink**) 13-08-2005, 03:35 PM

I cant knit. Well i havent since i was about 10 so im sorry i cant help.

Copperhead · #4 (**permalink**) 13-08-2005, 03:39 PM

Draw it freehand on paper? Print it out as large as you can and enlarge it on a photocopier?

spicey · #5 (**permalink**) 13-08-2005, 04:10 PM

I've inlarged it to as large as it will go on printer paper and its not big enough
so I may have to find a photocopier and enlarge it
but then I still need to graph it into stitches

this is alot more work than i thought

Copperhead · #6 (**permalink**) 13-08-2005, 04:11 PM

Sounds like it

rachelp · #7 (**permalink**) 01-09-2005, 02:02 PM

Sounds like your best bet is to rpint it as big as you can on a sheet of A4 and then enlarge it on a photocopier (over as many sheets as you need to get the right size.

You could use an OHP sheet and draw or print a grid on and then overlay this onto your letter, rather than redraw it all? Make sure you get an acitate OHP sheet sutiable for your type of printer though.

If you're using word to put your letter onto an A4 sheet did you know that if you insert the letter as wordart you can make it much bigger?
Click on the menu across the top Insert > WordArt
Once you've selceted the font and typed the letter drag the corners of the box to make it bigger.

Also you can cheat word on how big the font will go - you know the dropdown menu only goes up to 72 point font? Well highlight the number , type your own (say 120) and press enter. Hey presto it's bigger.

Hope this helps.

bandb666 · #8 (**permalink**) 02-09-2005, 06:51 PM

How big does the letter need to be?

Nicola B · #9 (**permalink**) 03-09-2005, 06:37 AM

I have never attempted anything like this, but could you not rescale your graph paper? If the squares were smaller overlaying the letters you have printed, then there would be more stitches in it. Otherwise I have no idea, sorry.

Nicola

ArtyFartyMack · #10 (**permalink**) 16-09-2005, 01:33 PM

I'll give it a go for you what are the initials and how big does it need to be?