Here’s another set of buttons.
Trying to come up with some new designs for the buttons. The ladybug button was a totally disaster. Poor thing got squished. No one wants to see a smashed ladybug. It’s not pretty.
Three more pin cushions. The button on the left one if a new one too. I didn’t want to make a bunch and find out they look terrible. It has a big ball of glass on the top. I’ll be making more of these in different colors.
I’ve been bouncing around finishing up a lot of things this weekend. I’m still working on more beads and buttons for my cousin’s quilt show. Here are a few more.
Shank style buttons with a cherry design on them. They kind of look old-fashion to me.
Kitties!! That one on the end has a flat head. He kind of looks like Iggy with the fat cheeks.
My mom’s quilting teacher gave her a little pin cushion. It’s really cute. She got the pattern and is going to make me some to sell at the craft show. Here’s the first few.
Aren’t they cute? I’m going to make the buttons that go on them and try to match them to the fabric.
Still making things for my cousin’s quilt show. These are a few more buttons I made.
I’m going to try to make a couple more heart buttons and more cherries too.
I’ve been steadily making things for my cousin’s quilt show. Since I have no idea what they want I’m trying to make a variety of different things. First up is buttons.
I’m planning on making a few more of these since only a couple match. These are fairly small.
I started out making the two buttons on the right. I realized the frit would look better on the bottom of the buttons, that’s when I notice I got a round blob when I melted off the glass rod. They kind of look like a kaleidoscope.
Just a couple of purple and white dot buttons. I’ll probably make more of these in different colors.
Now, a few beads…
More birds. I like making these. They are really fun.
Bunnies!! Two white ones and two pinkish blush ones. I was getting tired of making all white ones.
A set of round beads that have glass shards applied to an opal yellow bead.
I finally took Sara Sally’s class. It was a blast!! She’s so much fun and a great teacher. Everyone had fun in her class and we all finished at least one piece, if not two or three. Here’s the brooch I made in her class.
Two different views. I wasn’t going to make mine this big but it’s hard not to keep adding components. This was a totally awesome class!!
I added a glass cabochon to the top of this box bead. I want to make more of these, but maybe string more than one on a chain. This one looked kind of lonely so I added the copper heishi beads and it still looked plain. That’s when I added the ribbon and now it’s too cutesy. Not sure what I’m going to do with these yet. Back to brainstorming….
My cousin’s quilt club has a quilt show in the spring. My cousin showed some of my beads and buttons to the guild members and they want to sell my things at their next show. Here’s the first batch of beads and buttons I made for it.
These have glass shanks on the back.
They want buttons to sell in pairs. I can’t make a pair of anything so I’m not sure how that’s going to work – yet.
I dug through the fishing tackle in the garage to find some hooks that I could use. I didn’t find that many silver colored ones and most were too small to use. I cut off the barb and end of the hook and filed it down so it’s not sharp. Using the hooks, I can assemble these without using glue but it’s not that easy. The feathers seem to get all over the place.
Probably won’t be making very many more of these. They take too long to assemble and I’m running out of hooks.
I wanted to try to make some “real” fishing lures but I’m still trying to figure out how to attach hooks. In the meantime, these are just decorative.
The top one ended up with a short tail. It was the first one I made and I was trying to figure out the best way to attached the feathers.
Nothing too exciting. Just strung disc beads onto rubber cording and added a clasp.
