Button box. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Do you have spare buttons from sewing kits? Or from clothes you threw away or gave away? Where do you keep spare buttons?
I keep my spare buttons in a button box. How do you find it in a hurry? Decorate it with buttons. I have small shirt buttons in a small box. Larger buttons are in larger bozes or sections of sewing boxes.
Here are some ideas for buttons.
1 Buttoned Up Beach Wrap
Add buttons and ribbon loops to create fastening for a wrap-around skirt or beach sarong. You can turn a towel into a beach wrap. Cut a t shape slit in the middle for the neck. If you have two matching towels, the second towel can make the top into a tunic or make the tunic longer. Buttons can be used as fastenings, as decoration, or to hide untidy joins.
2 Thread them onto safety pins or hand them from same colour or contrasting colour safety pins to make brooches.
3 Sew them around the neck and cuffs of a plain sweater.
Make a row of false buttons down an item with no buttons. Or beween the real buttons down the front of a cardigan.
4 Stick onto magnets to decorate the fridge with photos and postcards of your last trip.
5 Make ear-rings, necklaces and bracelets.
6 Use as handles or handle decoration or simpley stick on decoration for a sewing or crafts cabinet or underwear drawer.
7 Scatter them across on old torn garment to hide holes and tears.
8 Use as eyes for soft toys. (Not for children uder three yeas old, Only for four years old and upwards.
9 Sew onto a headband or belt or both.
10 Decorate slippers
11 Decorate a picture frame
12 Decorate Button boxes and sewing kits.
13 Use for dolls house furniture.
14 Entertain children at a holiday let o a rainy day.
Useful Websites
Button Decor
https://diyeverywhere.com/2024/09/25/lady-collected-mismatched-buttons-instead-of-tossing-them-she-came-up-with-these-10-brilliant-ideas/
Buying Buttons
Button covers
Useful Websites
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