Button Fantasia

If you sew, sooner or later you end up with stray buttons. They may be a couple left over from a garment project or something you inherited from your grandmother’s sewing basket; some quilters collect unusual or antique buttons. Most of the time, you end up with an assortment of different buttons that don’t match. What to do with them? They can be worked into a Crazy Quilt – if that’s your cup of tea; or – you can make this lovely embroidered medallion sampler with stitches that embrace each button in a delicate frame hand embroidered on a ground of appliquéd wool. Though they appear intricate, the embroidery is made up of simple compounded stitches. Make a single large medallion for a special button or assemble a collection of smaller medallions in blocks to showcase an assortment of buttons. 


Join Helene Knott in exploring this lovely way to repurpose some of these buttons.  For a complete description and supply list click Here.