I love using vintage sewing notions and fabrics for my creations... stuff was just made better in the olde days. The antique buttons are so fascinating, I always wonder about the person who originally bought them new from the store, carefully selecting it off the display rack and then taking it home in a little bag... perhaps for a sewing project or replace missing buttons on a dress back in the 1920's-30's. One can't help but think of the era and how life was then.
The buttons I acquire sometimes are still on the original crumpled & worn card after all this time, saved or forgotten, somehow spared from the dustbin, perhaps even traveled around the globe! So I always feel I owe it to the buttons to put them to good use :O)
I love the little old buttons. There are so many things you can do with buttons. Special memories of buttons on our favorite coat or dress, etc.
ReplyDeleteI remember my grandmother had an old tin box she kept her buttons in. I think my sister has that now. Great memories of grandma finding buttons in that tin and using them on a dress she made for me when I was in the 6th grade. Wow, that's going back along time ago. KSedlak
What a sweet 'button' memory! I remember my grandma had a pair of those tiny embroidery scissors, shaped like a bird/ pelican. I wish i had them now :)
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