Comments on: What Do Quilters Use for Storing Buttons?

By: 5 Favorite November Posts at Quilting & Patchwork

5 Favorite November Posts at Quilting & Patchwork — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:24:45 +0000

[...] *What Do Quilters Use for Storing Buttons? [...]

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:57:02 +0000

Sherryl, thank you for sharing the story of your button collecting and your wonderful friend. I know it may have been difficult for you to write and share this, but in doing so, you may have comforted and encouraged someone else.

By: Buttons & Quilting…Favorite Topics, It Seems

Buttons & Quilting…Favorite Topics, It Seems — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:39:19 +0000

[...] had many quilters/fabric artists and simply button collectors respond to my previous post, What Do Quilters Use for Storing Buttons?, sparked by Josh Johnson’s post, Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button? at Junk [...]

By: Sherryl Gaunt

Sherryl Gaunt — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:20:47 +0000

I never knew about collecting buttons until I met a wonderful woman. She started working with me and I felt that I knew her. Come to find out we lived in the same small town for years but never met. We became the best of friends. She and her 6 sisters were but colectors. They gave me a tin of buttons and I was hooked. for two years we went everyhere collecting buttons. I love the pierced. Then Shirley got cancer and I lost her. Now I don’t collect buttons anymore because it hurts to much.

By: Karen S

Karen S — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:49:20 +0000

Do I collect buttons? Yes! I have them in tins. I have a blue tin that belonged to my great-grandmother filled with wodden buttons, clothed covered buttons and buttons from my relatives uniforms, then there is the bright green tin that belonged to my grandmother. The type of buttons in her tine doesn’t differ by much but the colors are brighter. My mothers tine is gold, it holds buttons in shapes of animals that were on my siblings and my clothing when we were children along with my fathers military buttons. I can’t bear to mix these tins because they show the different ages in my heritage. Maybe oneday I’ll get the courage to make a quilt and mix the buttons on it as a keepsake my own grandchild will appreciate.

By: Cyndi L

Cyndi L — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:37:52 +0000

Yup! It’s simply justification for having yet another collection…

By: Mary Emma Allen

Mary Emma Allen — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:06:48 +0000

Cyndi, I like your idea about arranging your buttons in mason jars according to color. If anyone is a jar collector, this is a great way to utilize the jars instead of storing them all away. (Incidentally, jar collecting also can become an addictive habit. My daughter and I’ve had to become more selective about our jars.)

By: Gayla McCord

Gayla McCord — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:44:06 +0000

I’ve got some very old blue Ball jars that my grandmother used to store her buttons in. And just a little over a year ago, I purchased an antique sewing machine from the late 1800’s – inside the drawers were tins with the original tools for the machine itself and old tins the old lady had stored her buttons in.

I’m not a quilter, but I am a collector of old things and just imagining where those buttons came from is a day of stories all in itself.

By: Cyndi L

Cyndi L — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:21:58 +0000

You bet I collect them! And my favorite way to store them is the oldie but goodie – in mason jars, according to color

By: NanaK

NanaK — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:06:33 +0000

I have SO many buttons! Recently, I sorted them all by color families and placed them in various jars and small bowls. They look very pretty on a top shelf in my sewing room. When the sun shines on them, the room comes alive!