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About Me

Married to my soulmate with 2 beautiful girls,and our English Springer Spaniel, Suki. Living a country life in Cambridgeshire, whilst baking, gardening, and photographing our daily lifes, where they find a place on my scrapbook pages.

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My little place on the web

This blog is just that, my little place on the web.You will find my daily (or not so daily, hehe)life, my love for my new vegetable garden, baking, photography and my scrapbooking!

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My Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a way of life for me now.It has been for over 4 years. I love journaling, taking photos of my family and love colour and texture, these are all part of my everyday life and scrapbooking.

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Button Project

blogged by me domestic goddess On 8/06/2010 12:55:00 PM
I am sure most of us have memories new and old, as a child gazing into our Mothers/Grandmothers battered biscuit tin filled with buttons! This battered biscuit tins from years gone by was filled with treasures for us kids, and I still love looking through my mother in laws battered biscuit tin, brimming with beautiful bone buttons from her days as a wedding dress seamstress.

With my love of buttons still very much with me today, our first Crafty Friday project is a button project. I have hundreds, maybe even thousands of buttons, so the girls and I sat down one afternoon and made some button men!
Go grab your buttons from this post and lets begin:


  • Start by making the legs of your button doll.

  • Insert needle with embroidery floss through one hole on sixteen 1/2" buttons (aprox diametre measurement).

  • Knot a small loop about 1/8" long on upper end of leg.
  • Insert needle through remaining hole in reverse direction . Knot and trim ends.
  • Repeat for other leg!
  • For the arms preparing as above with 15 buttons

  • Now lets make the head and hat.
  • You will need the following:

  • Insert needle through one hole on one 1" and one 1 1/2" button and a bead. This is the head and hat.

  • Insert needle through 4 smaller buttons and 1 slightly larger button. DO NOT CUT THREAD
  • Now to start putting all our limbs together.

  • Insert needle through loop on upper end of each arm and one hole on remaining  12 1" buttons on body.

  • Insert through loop on upper end of each leg
  • Insert needle through remaining hole in reverse direction on body, back through arm loops and holes on neck, head and hat.
  • Knot ends again 1-11/2" from previous knot, creating a loop for hanging.

  • Finally trim all ends.
Cute eh!



Please share your creations here on the Crafty Friday facebook page, I would love to see what you make.
If you love buttons with a difference, then go visit London at Such Sweet Tierney.

Back tomorrow with photos from a beautiful day at Hitchin Lavender Farm. Layout photos will be on the 8th August for my Nikki Sivils blog post.

Thanks for stopping by
Anna x
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8 Response to 'Button Project'

  1. Kerry Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281096602079#c2666353437920496450'> 1:10 PM

    That is so cute. Off in search of buttons now.

     

  2. Peg Graham Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281104573792#c6475851777738153875'> 3:22 PM

    Sweet! My daughter would love to make these.

    Thanks for the fun ideas!

     

  3. Sarah xx Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281106444898#c1708591591444118261'> 3:54 PM

    How cute are these?
    We used to make these as kids but they never looked this good!
    xx

     

  4. Bev Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281113676624#c710656752357727028'> 5:54 PM

    Gorgeous, gorgeous, Anna

     

  5. Sasha Holloway Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281115571259#c233000897644111205'> 6:26 PM

    That is SO cute

     

  6. Debs Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281165894279#c4314205048777863710'> 8:24 AM

    Love this idea. Now to find the button jars.... :)

     

  7. val Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1281628956900#c3856001697292372439'> 5:02 PM

    this is soooo fabulous!!! I want to make one so bad to sit on a shelf in my scrap room once Im done remodling it!!! thaks for the inspiration!!!

     

  8. josuane Said,
    http://scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/2010/08/button-project.html?showComment=1302441805917#c8508494767998022312'> 2:23 PM

    From France, so cute to make that !
    here my blog without photo but soon.... LOL hihihi thanks !!!!!!!
    http://josuane.canalblog.com

     

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