This is one of the most clever tutorial on making an efficient button hole.
This is the sort of same technique but somewhat awkward and kind of clumsy. Making it much harder than the crochet & knit method:
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Button Expert
Somebody wrote me an eMail and asked if she should keep her buttons she inherited from her grandmother "carded"?
I am by no means an expert, but when I have asked some real button "nuts" they have conventions etc. they say that the cards are very important. So if you want to keep their value as a collectable keep them on the cards, as with any collectable the more original you can keep it the more the value.
However, for me I don't care about the collectable value, I just love to play with them sort them touch them and once in a while use them on a project.
I have a great deal of fun looking through the buttons for a project I am working on. In my opinion a button can make the outfit. If I put a fabulous button on a sweater even if the yarn or the sweater is not so fabulous it becomes fabulous. The button sets the tone.
I am by no means an expert, but when I have asked some real button "nuts" they have conventions etc. they say that the cards are very important. So if you want to keep their value as a collectable keep them on the cards, as with any collectable the more original you can keep it the more the value.
However, for me I don't care about the collectable value, I just love to play with them sort them touch them and once in a while use them on a project.
I have a great deal of fun looking through the buttons for a project I am working on. In my opinion a button can make the outfit. If I put a fabulous button on a sweater even if the yarn or the sweater is not so fabulous it becomes fabulous. The button sets the tone.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Venitian Glass Buttons
Here are some buttons I got in Venice Italy.
They just sparkle in the sun. The picture does not do justice, they are really beautiful in person.
They just sparkle in the sun. The picture does not do justice, they are really beautiful in person.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Watch Dog - His name is Buttons
He is very protective over this button collection and guards it faithfully. Oh and yes he does bite!
My mother used to tell me that she first got the buttons then got yarn and a project to match her buttons. Backwards maybe but sometimes I see her point.
Of course she did not have the selection and sources that I'm lucky to have. But collecting buttons stuck with me. I inherited her collections and her compulsion to collect buttons. To my surprise I too have started projects with buttons picked out first. Go figure!
Too many buttons in my collection, how big is your button collection?
My mother used to tell me that she first got the buttons then got yarn and a project to match her buttons. Backwards maybe but sometimes I see her point.
Of course she did not have the selection and sources that I'm lucky to have. But collecting buttons stuck with me. I inherited her collections and her compulsion to collect buttons. To my surprise I too have started projects with buttons picked out first. Go figure!
Too many buttons in my collection, how big is your button collection?
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Please be patient I'm still....
Please be patient I'm still.... collecting.
Well here they are:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58216246@N00/?saved=1
Well here they are:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58216246@N00/?saved=1
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