Button Jar!

Frugalista

Another one here with a button box - I also scour charity shops for more buttons too .

OlGreeneyes

Hi Buttonholics Anonymous!
Quite a relief to find that I'm not alone -:T- I used to spend hours playing with my mother's button box, lining up all the similar ones on the carpet. Looking back, I used to wonder if I was a bit simple!( ) Anyhow, now I seem to have somehow acquired a button box of my own. Trouble is, I don't actually use the buttons. Still, I always cut off the spare button on a new garment and keep it with buttons I still religiously cut off anything I'm throwing away. I'm fairly useless at sewing, but I do wish I could find a use for them. Otherwise, I'm back to being batty.:D.

Sagaris

I have my mum's - it's a pale green Crawford's biscuit tin (might be a Cream Crackers one originally?) It's got loads of buttons as she used to be a dressmaker, and all the leftovers are in there! I sometimes have a look at them, and remember what they were used for - but like many other posters on here, there are never enough to make a set for my knitting when I need them!!

Ballymackeonan

I've got a button drawer - it's a small set of 3 drawers inherited fom my Gran, together with the buttons in one drawer, needles, pins and darning thread - and even fur fasteners - in others! Very useful as I collect vintage clothes, and can sometimes replace buttons with ones of the right size and colour.

I take buttons off things that are going to the charity shop as rags, and also remove the zips - they're now in the drawers as well.

One local charity shop takes buttons off the scrap clothes and someone sews them onto cards - try suggesting this at your local chazza as it's a good earner for them!

Puddleglum

I have one but when the little puddleglums were ever smaller, I kept them on a stout thread as a sort of necklace they could push them along on. They loved it as did I when I was little.

katieclampet

I have a button tin, I also save spare sequins that come attached to clothes, in those little plastic bags. I keep thinking I should do something with them, just not sure what!!

katiex

rosalie-lavender

Button people are fun to make. I have made them before with the children in the after school club I work in.
http://fabricleftovers.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/free-pattern-button-people/

I have also seen bracelets made of buttons.

http://www.theartfulcrafter.com/bracelets.html


http://www.buttonjewellery.co.uk/button_jewellery_bracelets.html

Rummer

Hello!!

I have loads of tubs filled with buttons with all of them colour co-ordinated! They look so pretty on my sewing table.

flutterbyuk25

I have one.....but I have never actually delved in there to replace a lost button! :rotfl:

Mine is a tin box, about the size of a school lunchbox, with butterflies over it.

x

NJW69

I have a sewing box and keep my buttons in that.

I do remember both my Mum and Grandma having tins with buttons in.