Using Buttons for Enhancing Quilts
I never imagined so many quiltmakers were making the rounds of yard sales looking for items for making and enhancing quilts. I’ve mentioned the ladies purchasing fat quarters and searching for fancy fabrics to make crazy quilts.
Another quilter browsed through the packages of buttons my daughter had culled from her collection. “I use buttons on my quilt projects,” she explained when her husband joked about all the many buttons she bought. She said she decorated quilt hangings with unusual buttons, just as my daughter does.
The previous year, a quilter bought my daughter’s whole button offering at that yard sale. She makes patchwork Christmas stockings for sale at craft fairs and decorates them with buttons.
So quilters, in addition to collecting fabric, often become button enthusiasts, too. This then can lead into the interesting history of various buttons and how they were made.
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