At 08:43 AM 3/23/04 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Does anyone keep a button box anymore?
I have a button box and a button jar. The box is full of cards each with one dozen pairs of perforations -- and in some cases a few extra -- to lace shirt buttons on. (When I was making all of DH's shirts, I bought a dozen each of twelve colors of sport-shirt buttons.) I "sew" them to the cards with button-and-carpet thread, and wind each end of the string around a button to keep it from coming undone. (That means that I can keep two kinds of buttons on one card.) On checking the box I see that there are also two bags of buttons -- mock-bone underwear buttons, and the clear buttons you put under other buttons to keep them from tearing the cloth -- and the bottom of the box is covered with escapees. The colored shirt buttons are far less than half the contents, but all but two cards of buttons are shirt-sized. Including some metal-painted plastic buttons left over from when I made aloha shirts for every male on my Christmas list. The jar was inherited from my grandmother, but all the buttons in it are mine. Very few are loose: some are strung, some are in bags and boxes, and THAT'S where I put the string of bone beads left from my brief foray into bead-on-skewer bobbins! I don't remember that bag of sea shells *at all*. Somewhat to my surprise, there are only two buckles. There are also a couple of rings, but they don't match. And everything I make is pullover, or fastens with hooks or snaps. I *would* like some retro-reflective buttons to sew on my gloves, but I don't go out at night any more. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/WEB/WEB.HTM http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the first day of spring was bitter cold, but daffodils are coming up now. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
