BT buttons?

[JeffPorter]

This was mentioned in a another thread, but maybe it's worth at least starting the discussion.

Once when I was talking with Cass, he said that one of the reasons why he ran events was so that the Bar Towel, could get "offline", and there would be face-to-face interaction in this community.

Over the past months, I've met lots of people from here, but, man, there's lots that I haven't and then heard things like, "I was there at the same time you were."

My wife is a member of Ravelry, an online knitting community, much like BT. Forums, pattern sharing, etc... (Ok, I'm on Ravelry too).

But one thing they have is buttons with people's handles on them, so that at events people feel more comfortable introducing themselves. In fact when we go to knitting events, one of the first questions people often ask is if they are on the site, and what's their handle so they can keep in contact.

Not sure how we would go about doing that (or if there's even an interest here for that) and I wouldn't want to just put it on Cass to be responsible for it, but it might be something that helped us connect a little more and maybe collectively we can figure something out.

[JerCraigs]

I dont think we need personalized ones, but a little bartowel button like the cask days ones would be neat.

[Cass]

If you can believe it I own a 1" button maker (don't ask) but it is actually pretty handy for fun things like this. Happy to bring it to out to the events and we can stamp some buttons out in real-time for all of us!

[Kekumba]

Clearly there also needs to be a Bar Towel snifter.

[grub]

what about the bar towel bar towel? that idea has been around for ages!

[blakee]

+1. good idea!

[Craig]

This was mentioned in a another thread, but maybe it's worth at least starting the discussion.

Once when I was talking with Cass, he said that one of the reasons why he ran events was so that the Bar Towel, could get "offline", and there would be face-to-face interaction in this community.

Over the past months, I've met lots of people from here, but, man, there's lots that I haven't and then heard things like, "I was there at the same time you were."

My wife is a member of Ravelry, an online knitting community, much like BT. Forums, pattern sharing, etc... (Ok, I'm on Ravelry too).

But one thing they have is buttons with people's handles on them, so that at events people feel more comfortable introducing themselves. In fact when we go to knitting events, one of the first questions people often ask is if they are on the site, and what's their handle so they can keep in contact.

Not sure how we would go about doing that (or if there's even an interest here for that) and I wouldn't want to just put it on Cass to be responsible for it, but it might be something that helped us connect a little more and maybe collectively we can figure something out.

This is something that would be most useful at beer festivals and the like, yes? I got my wife to knit me a beer glass cozy thing, it's just a little knit sleeve like this:



If some of us were in to knitting, they could come up with a pattern for one of those that has t a BT logo in it or something. If only we had members who knit...

[instantkamera]

What about BT glassware? TEKU!

[JerCraigs]

what about the bar towel bar towel? that idea has been around for ages!

Always know where your towel is.

[Belgian]

what about the bar towel bar towel? that idea has been around for ages!

I would proudly wear it. But only with boxers - in case of 'towel snag.'

[cratez]

Whatever form this takes (if it comes to fruition), I'm all for it.

[ercousin]

I would buy a bartowel teku glass!