buttons buttons everywhere

I've been making buttons for a very large custom order.








Sadly, button making is on hold while I wait on more supplies.

buttons and buttons and more buttons

Just like any good crafter or seamstress (wait. can i say seamstress? i don't really make clothes but i sew.) I save usable fabric scraps because they might come in handy. This weeks handy form: button covers on bookmarks and hair clips.

These are all part of a special order I'm working on.





(I really love my vintage soap dish. So handy for photos like this!)

i love buttons

Once on Ebay a long, long while ago I bought 5 (FIVE) large sized priority mail boxes of buttons. Some new, some vintage. Thousands of buttons. I sorted them out and sold off what I didn't want, kept a whole host of others, and for a very long time coveted them. I wouldn't use them for anything because it was so cool to me to have 5000 buttons at my disposal.

Lately, though, I look at the button bins and think, damn, that's way too many buttons. Lets make stuff!

Aren't these buttons lovely?







I think the yellow is my most favorite.

I turned these into bobby pins and they are now listed in the shop!

Before: my Ikea Fira chest. Used next to my sewing table to hold interfacing and misc. little bits like snaps and extra needles.

You can tell that I just quickly covered it when I got it and never did much to it. (And it's been 3 years already!)

After: a light coat of pink spray paint and some paper from Basic Gray and SEI. And while this is an awful pic, there are fabric covered buttons for knobs.



Done following this tutorial!

I should really redo the pic!

oh! oh! oh! i made one!

There will be better pictures tomorrow, but I was too excited about this to not post it now!




From this tutorial.

Mission: abundance

For an artists/crafters challenge, the theme was "abundance". I wanted to do some kind of mini-quilt thing but couldn't make it work. I wanted to do flowers, lots of them, but I couldn't get it to translate into fabric. So I switched to paper and felt, with a floral background.