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From: searose
Date: 10-06-2006, 02:41 PM (1 of 18)
is anyone addicted to buying buttons? i have a disgracefully large stash but each time i go to a fabric store i cannot resist going through the sale buttons even if i have nothing in mind for them. if they catch my eye -even if there is an uneven number i must have them. i have totes full !!! what is it about buttons that is so unresistable? searose
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User: searose
Member since: 09-30-2006 Total posts: 45 |
From: JustSewCrafty
Date: 10-06-2006, 02:44 PM (2 of 18)
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I love buttons too...I have a big ol jar that holds lots and lots of buttons. It makes good decor. in my sewing studio too! =)
May your bobbin always be full-
Stephanie www.chasingthreads.blogspot.com "Sewing is the new black" |
User: JustSewCrafty
Member since: 10-04-2006 Total posts: 168 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 10-06-2006, 03:38 PM (3 of 18)
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I love buttons. I had some friends that owned an antique store and she specialized in buttons (depression glass too) for good prices. They were beautiful but they closed the store and moved on. I also love those Czech Republic glass buttons that are so popular. And some of the fused glass buttons are fantastic. I have even dabbled in making my own with polymer clay. I love buttons. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
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From: paroper
Date: 10-06-2006, 04:45 PM (4 of 18)
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Funny you should mention that. I think that buttons must be my downfall. I have this cool storage chest (pics 13 and 14) that I got for half price at Hobby Lobby. It stands about 42 inches tall or so and each drawer has buttons in it by color. I've been looking for this for years!!!! http://kensphotos.smugmug.com/gallery/1411738/1/67226027 pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: pucktricks
Date: 10-06-2006, 06:33 PM (5 of 18)
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Now that is a sweet storage chest! I love it. I too love to buy buttons and then more buttons. I love to get the buttons by the tube, because they have novelty button tubes that are absolutely perfect for when you are making doll clothes. Ticia |
User: pucktricks
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 570 
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From: mamahoogie
Date: 10-07-2006, 05:47 PM (6 of 18)
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Add me to the list of buttonaholics! I bought one of those multi drawer things in the hardware store that are suppose to be for nuts and bolts, etc. and it works great as a button holder. I'm a Virgo so I love to sort and organize so all my tons of buttons are sorted by colour. I always check out garage sales and the thrift stores for jars of buttons too. I'm just getting into using polymer clay and buttons are on my list of things to make. Violet 
I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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User: mamahoogie
Member since: 12-25-2002 Total posts: 461 |
From: pretnichols
Date: 10-08-2006, 09:03 PM (7 of 18)
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I'm not a button-aholic, but I have inherited button tins from my mother & grandmother. (I probably have upper 100's). Needless to say, some of them are interesting! I'm not sure what to do with them, but when we were in Freeport, IL this weekend, we visited a museum that had craft/art that was made entirely from buttons. Some of them were mad e to look like quilt patterns. Gave me some things to think about for the future. As a kid, I always loved to play with the button tins my Mom & Grandma had. It was fun to match them up, pile them by color, etc. Peggy
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User: pretnichols
Member since: 10-16-2005 Total posts: 342 |
From: mamahoogie
Date: 10-08-2006, 09:09 PM (8 of 18)
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When my youngest daughter was about 4 or 5 she was bored one day and wanted something to do - she also liked to earn money - so I offered her a $1 for sorting buttons and putting the ones that matched on a piece of thread and tying them together. She spent several happy hours over time sorting and tying buttons (and I could sew in peace) and earning her own dollar each day she did it. She is 28 now and says it sounds like cruel child labour to her now and she can't believe she did that for a lousy $1. She says she can't believe she actually enjoyed doing it. I asked her how many things does she still do at 28 then she loved to do when she was 4? That ended that! Violet
I've decided to live forever - so far, so good.
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User: mamahoogie
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From: bridesmom
Date: 10-14-2006, 01:02 AM (9 of 18)
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I'm another button-holic. I'll buy 4 or 5 different kinds of buttons for an outfit, cause I can't decide which ones I want. It almost kills me to throw out a button so I have ones from my mom and my mother in law that have got to be antique. I can spend hours looking at buttons. Buttons make the outfit! And I can buy buttons with no idea what they may be used for, but I just like them. And since we are baring out button souls, I also love to dig through the remnants bin, have gotten some fantastic deals there too.
Laura
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User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: sewmuchfun
Date: 10-16-2006, 10:22 AM (10 of 18)
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You girls really should check out what vintage buttons are going for on ebay... I happen to look at them yesterday and someone is bidding 153 dollars on 700 buttons LOL..
Marilyn
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User: sewmuchfun
Member since: 07-22-2005 Total posts: 67 |
From: Minabop
Date: 10-16-2006, 11:02 AM (11 of 18)
| If any of you button-aholics ever get a chance to go to Brussels, Belgium, be sure to go the the Arcade and search out the button atelier. It's on an upper floor. The shop space is small, but crammed with button drawers. A sample is on the outside of each drawer. Button heaven! |
User: Minabop
Member since: 02-01-2005 Total posts: 7 |
From: bridesmom
Date: 10-16-2006, 09:28 PM (12 of 18)
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There is a great little store in Gastown in downtown Vancouver tcalled Button Button. Jammed with buttons, prices from really reasonable to totally outrageous, handmade ceramic, wood, metal, fur, bamboo etc. If you ever get here you got to check it out!
Laura
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User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: bjptl
Date: 10-17-2006, 04:43 PM (13 of 18)
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Wow!! Girls, You really love buttons !!! Pam, I love the button chest. I have mine in plastic shoe boxes, wall hanging with drawers,a compartmentized tupperware containrer and another container with drawers that my cousin bought me. Hum, I wonder what else I could use for my stash of buttons. Oh , I just remembered. I also have a huge jar with buttons inherited from my Mom and a tin cup full of what I call ugly buttons (I may just have a use for them some day) LOL. I saw some of that art work done with buttons in a magazine a couple of years ago. I thought it was so intresting that I kept the magazine(with my stash of magazines LOL). I really do intend to try that out with the help of my husband. He is the artist in the family and could help me draw out something interesting. He even gives me pointers on projects.( not always solicited.HA!) Any way, you get the message."I too LOVE Butons" Judy |
User: bjptl
Member since: 02-28-2006 Total posts: 14 
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From: paroper
Date: 10-18-2006, 09:14 AM (14 of 18)
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There are some really cute dolls you can make where you use long strings of buttons for the legs and arms. It's a cute way to use those ugly buttons and display them in your sewing room. I don't have a pattern but if you hunted the web you could probably find one.
pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 10-18-2006, 03:25 PM (15 of 18)
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Great sewing room pam! I have the same cross-stitch of the sewing machine and pink dress, my friend Terri made if for me about 15+ years ago.
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: paroper
Date: 10-19-2006, 09:11 AM (16 of 18)
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My husband did that one. It took him forever. The one of the sewing machine (alone) was done in the cross stitch program of my sewing machine. I digitized it by (count) hand in one night, sewed it out in nothing flat the next night. When you compare the texture of the hand one with the texture of the one by machine..there is no comparison. The one by hand is just lovely! pam
Bernina 200e, Artista V5 Designer Plus, Explorations, Magic Box, Bernina 2000DE & 335 Bernette Serger, Bernina 1530 Sewing Machine, Bernina 1300 DC Overlock (with coverstitch) |
User: paroper
Member since: 02-03-2004 Total posts: 3775 |
From: kmccrea
Date: 10-19-2006, 10:40 PM (17 of 18)
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I don't know if I have an out-of-control habit, but I do have a lot of buttons! I have them sorted by color and theme. I use one of those hardware sorters with all the drawers. While I may not have to buy buttons everytime I go to the fabric or sewing store, I am always on the look out for cool and interesting ones. And, I never turn down any buttons given to me because most of the time they are old and really unique.
Katherine McCrea
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User: kmccrea
Member since: 05-07-2006 Total posts: 173 
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From: mommydionne
Date: 10-20-2006, 08:24 AM (18 of 18)
your husband did that?! Cool, I'll tell mine and see if he offers to do any! I don't have very many buttons  just a small plastic container full the kids play with.
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838
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