A tin of butter cookies! You lift the lid, but there are no cookies to be found: only pins, needles, and thread... IC Form https://forms.gle/V39KKPk1PD8R4pAb7
Also added new renders on the Absinthe, as well as previews of the THOK and Cookie Cables collabs and artisan box pricing. See latest post for image with keycap samples!
About
KAM Sewing Tin is a novelty-heavy keycap set inspired by cookie tins filled with sewing supplies. I’m a big fan of butter cookies (the swirly ones are the best), and I also love to sew.
The original idea I had was a sewing-themed set with all sorts of sewing tools. When thinking about the colour scheme, I remembered the classic blue Danish butter cookie tin, and decided to combine the themes.
This is my first keyset design, I'm really excited to share it with you all and to refine it with your feedback!
GB will run from November 9th to December 9th!
Profile: KAM Material: Dye-sublimated PBT with matte finish Manufacturer: Keyreative
Base kits - mixed and novelty All-in-one kits that provide support for common TKL, 75%, 65% and 60% layouts.
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Alphas, Alternate numrow, and Colevrak
TKL mods - text, mixed, and novelty With alphas, supports TKL, 75%, 65%, 60% and HHKB. Includes alpha-coloured spacebars, F13 and stepped capslock cookie.
Spacebars, Numpad, and ISO Combine with either a base kit or alphas + mods. Spacebars contains a 2nd B for Alice boards.
NorDe and Yellow Accents (Added September 17th) NorDe kit created using this guide by Miguel Farah, thank you for the resource! Yellow accent kit contains spacebars in common sizes plus accent arrow keys. 2c/2.25c/2.75c can be used for Alice bars plus 40s, double 2c is for ergo/ortho, double 2.25c for Whimsy, and double 1.5c is for split ortho boards.
Ergo, Ortho, and 40s When combined with alphas or a base kit: - the ergo kit supports Ergodox, Boardwalk, Sol - the ortho kit supports Moonlander, Planck, Preonic, Lily58, Iris, Sofle, Corne, Ergodash - the 40s kit supports Minivan, JD40, JD45, UT47.2, prime_e, dimple, whimsy
Note: These kits only have a novelty variant right now, as the gradient means text mods are a lot less flexible, despite the uniform profile. Let me know if you'd like to see text mods variants for these kits!
Cookies and Buttons For a macropad, macro column, or to just to have more of them! Also, cookie coloured versions 🍪
Tailor To make it easier to visualise the different options and work out what kits you need, I made the Tailor: an interactive website that lets you explore how Sewing Tin can look on different keyboards.
Colours and Samples The set has a blue gradient to reflect the shininess of the tin. The numrow is cookie-coloured as a fun way to incorporate and highlight the cookie colour against the vertical gradient.
Note: the colours are not an exact match to the tin. Because of the shininess, the tin looks very different depending on the lighting and environment and has a vibrancy that can’t be captured in matte plastic.
See below for a photo from Keyreative of the samples. Am holding off on assessing the colours until I receive the samples in person (being shipped to me now) - will post more photos then!
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Pantone chips and KAT Alpha keycap (Keyreative stock white) Please ignore how the pins are pushed in to the pincushion.
Deskmats
Design 1 - Cookie Parade (rendered with J-02 by ProtoTypist) I had the idea for this deskmat really early on while designing this set - cookies walking together, the swirly cookie leading the way with a needle as a flag, with cute expressions and poses! I tried to give each cookie their own personality and mood (hang in there pretzel ;___; ).
This deskmat will be available in both 900x400mm as well as a smaller 600x350mm size.
Design 2 - Sewing Tools Since the Cookie Parade deskmat is mostly plain, for the second deskmat I wanted to design a tiling pattern, and capture the other main theme of the set, sewing. Will be available in 900x400mm size in both yellow and blue!
Artisan Box
I've designed a "Sewing Tin" artisan box to match the set, you can see pictures of the prototypes below! It has a 3D printed body and engraved acrylic lid.
We are partnering with P3D Store to produce these boxes - they will be available for purchase as part of a small group buy running at the same time as the keyset group buy. You'll be able to select from all of P3D Store's in-stock filament and acrylic colours. The box will be available in 2 sizes (12 slot and 21 slot) and 3 maximum artisan heights (17mm, 21mm, 30mm).
Thanks Jake from P3D Store for making these samples, and anEmptyJarOfNutella for the original suggestion!
I also previously designed a fully 3D printed version of the box. This will not be available for purchase, but I plan to make the files available for personal use for those who join the keyset group buy. Details TBD!
Collaborations
I'm super excited to be partnering with these awesome makers on Sewing Tin themed cables and artisans!
Cable Collaboration: Cookie Cables are making matching USB and TRRS cables in tin blue and cookie yellow!
You can see some little doodles introducing each collaboration here!
THOK Encoder Knobs
THOK has created these "button" encoder knobs to match Sewing Tin! Available in Mellow Yellow (powder coated yellow brass matched to the set) and Brass Gold (clear coated natural brass), combined MOQ 100. Pricing TBD.
Credits I had a lot of help getting Sewing Tin to this point! Huge thank yous to:
- the lovely Keycraft Collective community for the support, and for giving this set a space to grow: there's too many amazing people to name everyone, special thanks to Rosie, Andromache, pwade, pluma, and Therese for the help and advice - Ltafuri for the sweet sweet U80-A, ErgoDox, Nemui and Austin renders - minimoonbun for the super cute banner and favicon, advice, proofreading, and help acquiring sample keycaps - DrHigsby for all the help with the 40s kit - ImperfectLink and Keyboard Render Kit for the fantastic rendering kit - acitrin, Mirubere, NoPunIn10Did, matt, hali, and honorless for the kitting advice
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