Doing anything with buttons

hairsprayhon

One of my favorite ways to spruce up clothes and make them unique is by changing the buttons. I also will sometimes make designs on something using the buttons. I have not used buttons to embellish my quilts but I have seen some that use that technique. Anyway, Joann's is having a half off button sale, plus 25% off for educators. Even though going to Joann's is my husband's idea of purgatory, he is a teacher and I want that 25%. But I took mercy on him and told him he could drop me off and then come back in 45 minutes and I should be ready to check out. I bought a few buttons last week and they had a new series of old fashioned ones that I really liked, but delayed getting until a sale. I am sewing a crystal beaded trim onto a sash for my daughter's wedding and they had some swarski buttons, I am going to get them so I have a nice finish for the trim.
Between the trim and some buttons for jackets, I will have enough to do so I will feel productive while I watch the Olympics and cheer the Bryan Brothers and the Williams Sisters to Gold Medals in Tennis.
Anyone else do anything fun with buttons?

casi_ann

I am always looking for interesting buttons to use as embellishments on clothes, bags or wall hangings. You can also use buttons to make jewelry. I have never done it but keep saying i will when it gets cold or i'm bored. You can put buttons on anything to embellish, even wood. for example picture frames, jewelry boxes...

menletti

I love buttons. I've used buttons to "tie" a quilt and it was very cute. Buttons can change the look of any outfit or accessory. I like to look for odd-ball buttons. I usually find them on clothes at the 2nd hand stores, yard sales, and estate sales. I take the buttons off and then if the fabric is still sort of good, I'll tear it in to strips for braided rugs. One time when I was traveling with my daughter, we went in to a button store. That's all they sold!! No thread, no needles...nothing but buttons. The nice thing was that they were mostly used buttons. I would love to have a button store...although I doubt I could ever part with any. LOL

I have also used old pieces of jewelry and turned them in to buttons. Skinny sagebrush branches, salmon vertabrae, elk antler...people indulge my button manian when I ask them to cut me a button.