So whats the facination on collecting buttons?
#121
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Originally Posted by quilt crazee
TELL THEM- you gave up button collecting,NOW you collect 100% quilting cotton!! LOL!!-see what you get!!
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Now see that IS something I can do and that is collect jars of buttons. I love buttons and don't do a thing with them except pick up a different jar sometimes and just see what I can see. Everything in that jar is unusual and great too look at. Love buttons
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I am amazed and equally impressed with all you button lovers. I love the stories and fascination you all have with your buttons. I never really thought of allowing my daughter to play with them. Now I have a mommy and me project for the next rainy day ..
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i love buttons. they are little pieces of people's lives. and i'm guilty of still sewing buttons on stuff, and using the button collection to match them. i have jet buttons that were on my grandmother's dress when she was a teen, back in victorian times. there's a button off my mom's favorite pink apron, a button off my favorite blouse, off my dad's PJs, teeny ones off my baby dresses. they strike a chord in my hands, too--it's a tactile thing. looking in my mom's button tin when i was little was one of my favorite rainy day things to do. there was a smell from the bakeite and celluloid buttons that still reminds me of rainy days and the button tin.
i have bottles from garage sales, my mom's old tin, some i purchased new, others that the grandsons have found and brought to me.and now i have a granddaughter who is four, and just the right age to introduce to the buttons. i think she'll enjoy them as much as she does seashells, fairies, and stickers.
i have bottles from garage sales, my mom's old tin, some i purchased new, others that the grandsons have found and brought to me.and now i have a granddaughter who is four, and just the right age to introduce to the buttons. i think she'll enjoy them as much as she does seashells, fairies, and stickers.
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Yes, I also love buttons. I inherited my husband's grandmothers buttons. She was quite the sewer, and I was the only one that came along that sewed, so I got them all. One idea I saw that I really liked, a large canning jar, bottom drilled to accomodate and electrical cord, a lamp harp added, to hold the top of the lamp shade and bulb, and the canning jar itself, filled with glorious buttons. Too Cute !!!!!!!!
#127
Originally Posted by luvTooQuilt
My family thinks that just because I quilt that I'm suppose collect buttons. So every garage sale, flea market or even from their old shirts and sweater that they find/get they feel the need to give to me? I have spaghetti jars filled with buttons that I have no idea what to do with.. If I have space to store them, Id rather use that space for fabric.. So what gives?
(btw- I will never sew a button back on a shirt.. goes in the laundry to never be seen again)
(btw- I will never sew a button back on a shirt.. goes in the laundry to never be seen again)
#128
I love buttons! dont know why, love the colors, the sounds they make rattling around, like to sort them, sew designs w/ them, make them into ornaments. Id put them on quilts, but am afraid, after I gave the quilt away, some kid somewhere would chew one off and choke - sharet
#129
I think buttons to us Lady's is like marbles are to the men folks.
They are collected in the same manor I think . I know I love my buttons and have saved them forever as all the lady's in my family has for many many years :-D
They are collected in the same manor I think . I know I love my buttons and have saved them forever as all the lady's in my family has for many many years :-D
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