luvTooQuilt

My family is super supportive of my hobby. My dad even searches for 'quilty' stuff at garage sales and flea markets. Last year he got me over a doz of joannes block of the month kits that someone sold him for $.50 . Yup fifty cents for all of them . Well that's the story he tells me anyway. Lol.

Poodles

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

luvTooQuilt

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 ..

CarolLady

I have several different jars of buttons, I just think some buttons are fascinating! never really thought about it. Just have them.

svenskaflicka1

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.

Auntie B

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 !!!!!!!!

marknfran

I wish they thought that about me. I am always looking for buttons; never have enough since I do not have many in the first place.

arimuse

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

Pickles

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

sak658

I have jars of buttons in my sewing room, also a chest with lots of buttons still on the cards. Just love buttons. Most of the ones in the big jar belong to my MIL and she was born in 1901...