3 posts tagged “buttons”
These are really fun. This is the website for the free pattern: Saartje Knits I have one more to go for the pair.
I used my own handspun yarn for this...which makes me even more proud! Handknit on size 3 double points. They'll fit a 3-6 month old baby, probably...or a really chubby-footed newborn!
Whew! I'm finally able to show you the yarns I created for a Craftster.org swap! They are in my RM Handspun Yarn collection of photos.
And, Here is one skein that I listed in my Etsy a few days ago.
Mermaid's Nest
Born June 22, 2007
Handspun Lilac Jacob wool & Angora, dyed in a slightly variegated pattern and plied with thin pale blue Acrylic yarn.
Worsted Weight
12 Wraps Per Inch
53.9 grams 1.9 ounces 193 yards
After I created this yarn on my Majacraft Little Gem 2, I remembered that I had needle felted and dyed a nice greenish-teal wool flower months ago and thought it would be a nice addition to a finished project made with the yarn. Sure enough...the color was just spot-on! So I hunted for the perfect center for the flower. I found these two vintage buttons in my stash and wondered...How do Mermaid's reproduce?
Funny thought, right? But I imagined it may be what Mermaid eggs in a nest might look like. Seeing that the yarn color is similar to one of my skeins called, 'Mermaid Hair' made for a Craftster.org swap, I researched it and found out that Mermaids would actually lay eggs, so that gave me the name for this skein! Get it? Got it? Good!
I am sewing some aprons at the moment and one of them is a little soap bottle apron for my friend Rachel of Passion Pottery. We got on the subject of Grandmothers because her Grandmother had made the one I am using as a pattern.
So, I wanted to tell you about my Great-Grandma Birdwell. She taught me to quilt, bless her heart! She left me some wonderful quilt squares, many of which I used to make log cabin and 9 square pillows for loved ones after she died. AND…a big cookie tin of buttons. She knew that I adored playing with her buttons when I was a little girl. I still have the buttons and use some of them every now and then on special family-bound crafts, but mostly I pull them out and look at them like I did when I was little. It brings me right back there…to when as a child I would sit in her and grandpa’s bedroom floor in-between their two twin beds, going through a lifetime of saved buttons. Some of the sets were in smelly glass pill bottles with cork tops or more modern 'child-proof' plastic pill bottles. Some were still on the cards on which they were sold with vintage prices to make me remember what inflation is all about! Many were loose in the tin, no doubt clipped off of worn out clothing headed for the rag bag. Each one of them is a treasure to me.
So to all you pack rats out there who fear that no one will want your stash when you are gone, think of my Grandma Birdwell's buttons and the Great-Granddaughter who loves them.
