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Help me name the blog!
Guys, I’d like your help. I’m thinking about giving the blog a name. So far, it’s just been called “the Colette Patterns blog,” and that’s a bit unwieldy and not very interesting, in my opinion.
However, I seem to have a bit of a creative block on this issue. For the life of me, I can’t think of a suitable blog name! So I thought I’d turn it over to all you lovely folks. I’d really like to hear your ideas, so I’m sweetening it with a prize for the winning name.
Just post your ideas in the comments (as many blog names as you want), and be sure to fill in your email so I can contact you. The winning idea (as judged by me and the rest of the CP team) will get two free patterns of their choice. And if people inadvertently post the same awesome winning idea, I’d choose the first person to post it.
Some guidelines:
- It might be nice for the name to have some reference to sewing / creating / making, but…
- As much as I love puns, I’m thinking there are a lot of sewing puns out there already (e.g. “sew cute”), so definitely move away from those.
- It should ideally match with the rest of the company! Maybe that’s obvious, but I’m looking for something that reflects what you see on the blog.
- It should probably be pretty short and catchy
There, is that too much to ask? Ha!
Ok, let’s hear your ideas! I’ll keep comments open until Monday, Feb 14.
Comments
Mia
February 9, 2011 #
Colette in Stitches
Marie Roche
February 9, 2011 #
intelligent sewing with Colette
Terri A
February 9, 2011 #
Fyberepic
Fyber-epic
Fiberetro
Colettiquette
Weft and bight (bight =zigzag)
Weft insertion
Bite/bight
Slice
Shanked
Colective snippetry
Snippetry
Colettery
Colettered mind/studio
Colette en pointe (on point)
Colette la vie (colette is life)
Colektive
Laura F.
February 9, 2011 #
Great suggestions so far! I especially love “de Colette”. I came up with quite a few last night, here are my top 5:
The Colette Bias
Colette Remnants
Threads (as in threads of conversation)
Deli-Colette or Delicate Colette
Charming Colette or Colette Charm
And some others that didn’t make the top 5:
Exquisi-Colette or Exquisite Colette
Dainty Colette
Ethereal Colette
The Colette Record
Beguiling Colette
Colette Applique
Intimate Colette
Colette in Bloom(ers)
Sally
February 9, 2011 #
The Colette Gazette
Ashley
February 9, 2011 #
Names are tough! I got mine (“refurl”) by combining the name of my graphic design senior exit project (“unfurl”) with the idea of remaking what starts as a piece of fabric into something else or remaking one clothing item into something totally different. Do you have any memorable creative moment/name you can pull from? It’s always fun when it’s personal.
KatyRenee
February 9, 2011 #
Pattern Work
Cafe Colette
Colette’s Tea Room
[Insert your other cat’s name]
Vintage Sewing du Jour.
Sara
February 9, 2011 #
“The Satin Slip”, “The Satin Soliliquy”, “The Dress Forum”, “The Sweetest Thing”, “The Girl Next Door”.
In previous decades, titles started with the word “the”. eg. The Supremes, The Four Tops, etc. In recent decades the word “the” has been dropped. I think it would add a nice vintage ring to the title just by starting with “the”.
Christine
February 9, 2011 #
Hello! Here are my ideas. A few of them are inspired by Colette the French author. My favorite is the first one:
1. The Blue Lantern
2. Life a la mode
3. Season Savor Sew
4. Colette Colette
5. The Evening Star
6. L’etoile Vesper
The first is the name of a memoir by Colette. The second is “life in fashion” but also reminds me of ice cream, yum! The third is alliterative and refers back to many of the pattern names being seasonings/spices/teas/exotic locations, etc. The fourth relates strongly to the company name (duh) but is perhaps slightly catchier than the current blog title. The fifth is also the name of a Colette memoir. The sixth is the original French title of the same book. There might be a possible pun with toile, but I’ll leave that for folks with better French than mine. :-)
Where does the name of the company come from, by the way? Thanks!
Christine
February 9, 2011 #
I clearly didn’t read the other comments first, I definitely agree with the idea of putting a description of the company name somewhere, perhaps as a page in the blog or part of the about me section of the blog?
There are so many good suggestions to choose from in all of the comments!!
Sarah
February 9, 2011 #
Jolie
Belle Epoque
Beautiful Things
Chéri
Sarah :)
mmdesigns2005@yahoo.ca
lori
February 9, 2011 #
De-Colette-Age
Jayme Finley
February 9, 2011 #
There are so many good comments so far! I’m sure you will find a great name for your blog!
The Conversation Piece
Colette’s Exchange
Colette’s Don’t Cry
The Colette Gazette
e
February 9, 2011 #
collettecoquette
Mary Glascock
February 9, 2011 #
Colette’s cuts
Lindsay
February 9, 2011 #
Culottes
Lindsay
February 9, 2011 #
Culottes
Sounds like lots, refers to clothes, is similar to your pattern company name.
PatternJunkie
February 9, 2011 #
So many great ideas! Here are a few of mine:
Tea & Lace
Lace Edgings
Dentelle (‘lace” in French, at least according to my online translator)
Details
Detailing
Vignettes
Vintage Silhouettes
nell gleason
February 9, 2011 #
Oh, I thought of a couple more:
Patterns and Passimenterie
Colette-a-tete (where a sewist’s secrets are shared)
Julie
February 9, 2011 #
COLETTE’S PATTERN BOUTIQUE
~vintage inspired sewing patterns with a modern flair~
lsaspacey
February 9, 2011 #
Here’s my two cents:
Amuse Bouche – relating to the food, tea, and liquer influence in your pattern names
However, I have to say I like it being referenced simply as the Colette Patterns blog because it’s great simple advertising, and any other name will have to bring a description to it the first time it’s used, like “Amuse Bouche, the Colette Patterns blog ” or “Dart & Hem, the Colette Patterns blog”.
Kerri
February 9, 2011 #
How about Le Fil (The Thread)? Le Fil de Colette? En Points (in stitches)?
Crystine
February 9, 2011 #
How about Colette Accoutrements.
I like the idea of naming the blog something elegant without being harsh, feminine without being too cutesy/girly, and something that mentions sewing/creating without being a pun. Anyway, good luck with choosing the name!
Susan
February 9, 2011 #
I’m new to your blog (having hopped here from angry chicken). Don’t have much to add to the good ideas already suggested, but perhaps: A Cut Above. Suggests a higher quality line of products and well, I guess cutting is related to sewing but not necessarily a pun in this context. Eh. Maybe I’ll think of something better …
Sara Vee
February 9, 2011 #
Two thoughts for you and your lovely blog :)
“Tea is for Topstitch” – Tea and sewing, need I say more?
“Tease” – a play on your love of tea, and all your playful and saucy patterns.
Sara Vee
February 9, 2011 #
Also, “Tea is for Topstitch” lovingly references learning – something your blog never fails to help me with!
Good luck in the name hunt!
Little Miss Seamstress
February 9, 2011 #
Couture à la Colette
Colette à la Mode
à la Colette
Chic ‘n’ Sassy
Chic à la Colette
Chic ‘n’ Sassy Sewing
Pleats and Pintucks
It’s All in the Details
Cute as a Button
Through the Eye of a Needle
The Studio
Colette’s Studio
Simply Chic
Good luck!
Alexys
February 9, 2011 #
Well since Colette is Yr cat and some proceeds are donated to a feline rescue.. How about ailurophile?
Shannon
February 9, 2011 #
Altering the Hemlines
Colette’s Tea-isms
Sentimental Tea or Sentimental Tea Time
Sz
February 9, 2011 #
Vintage Views
Colette’s Compendium
Vintage News
Passion du Colette
Petite Colette
Denise
February 9, 2011 #
Colette’s Musings
Denise
February 9, 2011 #
One more:
Colette’s Thoughts on Sewing
Kelly Jeanne
February 9, 2011 #
This one just occurred to me.
‘Snippets’
Alli (One Pearl Button)
February 9, 2011 #
How about the very simple “Sew Colette”?
Courtney
February 9, 2011 #
“Put a Pin in it”
Jean
February 9, 2011 #
Colette’s Klatch
Kelly
February 9, 2011 #
Sew Darjeeling
Tea Time with Colette
A stitch in time
:)
Lisa
February 9, 2011 #
New Vintage or
Vintage Nouveau
I love how your style is vintage thru today instead of one or the other.
Mary
February 9, 2011 #
Colette du Jour
Colette’s Web
Anna Socrates
February 9, 2011 #
La maison de Colette
The divine is in the details.
Divinely detailed
Divine Details
Chez Colette
Colette Couture
PepperToast
February 9, 2011 #
My husband came up with:
Cream n’ Sugar
rebecca
February 9, 2011 #
Design Notions – Tips, Tricks and Mental Meandering from the Colette Patterns Team.
Celestina
February 9, 2011 #
Girl Anachronism
Marybeth
February 9, 2011 #
Hi! What fun! How about these?
“Colette’s Sugar and Spice”
“Sugar and Spice Inspirations”
“Sugar and Spice and All That Jazz”
“Sweet Inspiration, Spiced Conversation”
Joanne A
February 10, 2011 #
Stitched to a Tea
Emma
February 10, 2011 #
Colette’s collectibles
Collectible Colette
Pattern post
Colette pattern post
elizabethdx
February 10, 2011 #
colette — style lines
Lisa B
February 10, 2011 #
Collette’s Pretty Touches
Sally
February 10, 2011 #
The Speakeasy
The Cutting Line
G
February 10, 2011 #
In Colette’s Boudoir, or maybe simply Colette’s boudoir. A boudoir is a lady’s private bedroom, sitting room or dressing room. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudoir
Corinne
February 10, 2011 #
yowzers, this is quite a list, glad I don’t have to choose….how about “Talk to Me”
Miet
February 10, 2011 #
Sweet & spicy sewing secrets or Sweet & spicy sewing snippets
Miranda Ley
February 10, 2011 #
“A Cut Above”
“Savvy Scraps”
“Savoir Faire”
“Into the Fray”
“Colette’s Scraps”
“Snips and Tucks”
“Altered State”
“Brocade Parade”
“Soupçon”
“Needle Wit”
JennyAtChronicallyUncool
February 10, 2011 #
My favorite suggestion so far is “Colette a la Mode”. Sweets and fashion! More along those lines:
“Colette’s Bonbons”
“Bonbons and Bon Mots”
“L’apéritif”
I think you could work out something that is a play on windows – being that your studio has wonderful windows, cats like Colette love windows, and the blog is a window into bits of history, inspiration and techniques that make your company tick. Here a few words that are floating around my head:
Glace – French for window-glass, also meaning covered with sugar/frosting glaze like a pastry or candied fruit
Vitrine – glass, like a shop window or display case
kara
February 10, 2011 #
i found you via a search on “fabric covered belts”—i’m not an experienced sewer, but i was tickled to find you.
hmmm, i love your company name—-
how about keeping it colette and underneath “pattern your life”
i love, love your blog–thank you!
kara
Jasmine MacDonald
February 10, 2011 #
Collette’s Windows – because this is where we get to peek through to snippets of your life!
Hugs, Jasmine in Oz
Katie
February 10, 2011 #
Seams de Colette
Katie
February 13, 2011 #
seams to colette
Deb Cameron
February 10, 2011 #
How about
“Colette’s Couture”
(underneath)Modern vintage patterns for a beautiful life
That’s all I have, I have tried several others, but I just love this, I think it has a lovely ring and the catch phrase underneath reminds me of old time picnics where the ladies wore beautiful dresses (like your patterns) and hats and were courted by men whilst their minders looked on. Goodluck finding the perfect name.
Shannon
February 10, 2011 #
From the Cutting Room Floor
(and then I think it would be cute to give a cat’s eye view of the studio every now and then)
Colette’s Cutting Nook
Scissors and Pins and Vintage Trims
Colette Scissorhands! (okay, so I’m getting silly with this one)
I think I’m running out of steam on thinking up names now!
maremelade
February 10, 2011 #
I would suggest “Colette par le chas de l’aiguille” which means “Colette through the needle’s eye” in French.
As chas (eye) s is pronounced the same way as chat (cat), it refers to the origin of Colette’s name.
Does that make any sense?
fleur anglaise
February 10, 2011 #
How about something that is associated with Colette without using the same name as the website – like “Bel-Gazou” (nickname of Colette’s daughter) or “Sido”?
the fabled needle (jen)
February 10, 2011 #
oh, names are hard! i actually like how it is now but i understand where you’re coming from (and i have a bad habit of changing up names for my sites/blogs so…)
i don’t have a complete title (does that disqualify my comment? that’s ok, just wanting to be helpful!) but something with “fancy pants” comes to mind. frocks? ;)
or something having to do with pinking shears – sounds retro, has the word “pink” in it and, of course, has to do with sewing.
Sara
February 10, 2011 #
Afternoon Delight
Que Sarai, Sarai
Nights in silk satin
It would be good if you had a blog name that came from a song, because then it would get stuck in people’s heads. Like the cooking blog named “Gimme gimme some oven” It’s like the only cooking blog that I can name.
Hélène
February 11, 2011 #
What about:
Tâpisserie (tapestry) as a kind of dyslexic mispronunciation of Pâtisserie
Hélène
February 11, 2011 #
Naphthalene
moth repellants are made out of it.
The distinctive smell of old chest of drawers
Ange
February 11, 2011 #
What wonderful suggestions! I’ve no idea how you’ll decide.
What about “Modern Vintage at Colette’s ” Colette’s Modern Vintage”, “Retro Colette”.
Can’t wait to see the name you choose.
cindy
February 11, 2011 #
How about
Black Cat Couture
or
Black Kitty Couture
or
Sew Much Fun With Colette
cindy
February 11, 2011 #
oops gave you the wrong email address, so I might as well add a few more suggestions, I really love your patterns, so I am really trying to think up something good.
Sew & Sew Patterns
Design & Delight Couture
Colette Sewing and Patterns
OK ,maybe I am clutching at straws, I will stop now. Good luck to all.
fleur anglaise
February 11, 2011 #
Perhaps name it after one of Colette’s cats:-
Fanchette
La Touteu
Minionne
Pinichette
Petiteu
or
Kiki-La-Doucette } from her novels
Saha
Star
February 11, 2011 #
CoLetters: A Sewing Blog
Ruthann Jagge
February 11, 2011 #
SO many great ideas!!!
Atelier Colette (Studio Colette)
Bobbinette ( a type of tulle lace)
Ham and Clapper ( pressing tools)
Johanna
February 12, 2011 #
Hm, I had the same idea as Ruthann above: “Colette Atelier,” or “Salon Colette” — something to convey that the blog is for a sharing of ideas (design or otherwise)!
Marybeth
February 12, 2011 #
I thought of another one…
What about:
“A Pinch of This and a Dash of That”
or
“A Pinch of Vintage and a Dash of Classic”
Laurwyn
February 13, 2011 #
“Les Histoires de Colette” or “Colette Stories”
“Les Fables de Colette” or “Colette Fables”
“Colette’s Antiques”
Julia
February 13, 2011 #
How about “Seams, scenes and studios” (and I think you named it perfectly well yourself with your “Scenes from the studio” post!)
“modern vintage studios”
“cutting room colette”
“when all is made, said or done: Colette”
“notions,trims and whims [of Colette (I like both ways!)]”
“a cup with colette”
Hélène
February 13, 2011 #
Wrote earlier as a reply to a comment
Trousseau
or
Colette’s Trousseau
MF
February 13, 2011 #
I haven’t read through the comments, so I hope I’m not repeating! Some suggestions:
Threads
Patterning Style
Patterns for living
Colette knows best
Colette shares
Colette inspires
APS
February 13, 2011 #
– The Bobbin Files (assuming this doesn’t already exist elsewhere)
– The Muse
– Musings (or some variation on this theme)
Dana Lee Cohen
February 13, 2011 #
I love your site, and the romantic ideas of life and style you share.So I thought I’d try to help with the blog name and win a prize. I could use some class in my wardrobe!
Behind the Voile
Of Sensual Seams (and Scenes)
The Bodice Blog
Notes from the Voluptuary
Notes from a Voluptuary
Thank you again for your romance and the beauty you bring us all, and the dream of life.
Warm regards,
Dana
Enora L
February 14, 2011 #
Hi,
your blog makes me thinks of a “salon de thé”. It’s like a cosy place where you could come and talks about whatever you want about sewing, fabrics, vintages patterns…
So i suggest this name :
“Le salon de couture”
Don’t know if it has be suggested before as I didn’t read all the comments!
magali
February 14, 2011 #
I was thinking of “petits points” whoch in french are the words of sewing when you make small stitches on finishing a garment.
Or perhaps ” vintage minette”. In french minette is both a word that describe a woman which takes great care to her garments and look, being also really feminine. And it is also used to call a female cat when you do not know its name. As Colette is originally a cat and as the blog deals with really feminine clothes, details.. I thought it could work
Hélène
February 15, 2011 #
Colateral
Annie
February 15, 2011 #
Here are my suggestions :
Colette’s little sewing secrets
Autour de Colette (french for all around Colette)
Les muses de Colette
Colette’s boudoir
Don’t know if it’s too late…
G
February 16, 2011 #
Chez mademoiselle Colette or Mademoiselle Colette.
G
February 16, 2011 #
“Tea with Colette”. Where you can eat a parfait or cinammon bun and drink some roiboos, you know.
Dana Lee Cohen
February 16, 2011 #
Chez Colette
Curry
February 21, 2011 #
I’m pretty sure comments are closed at this point but if you don’t use this, I will (someday!): “Cut Piece”.
Cheers.