Button Crafts: Make Button Flowers and a Button Bracelet

button flowers

Check out the PBS site for making photos and a tutorial on how to make these cute button flowers.  These can be made using new or vintage buttons. 

Claire’s new blog Kiddley has the best of everything to do with kids also has a post on these  Button flowers .  These are so cute, and a little kitsch. 

The best thing is that kids love buttons.  When I was little I had a button collection and would spend hours and hours counting the buttons, putting them into neat colour piles and sorting them from littlest to biggest.  My daughter loves buttons now, and I still love them as well. In fact, I may just make some buttons from the Fimo clay I have bought.  Hmmmm, have you ever noticed how one creative thought leads to another.

Photos from Kiddley.   

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Would you like some more button fun?  Cat Morley has this great tutorial to make a button bracelet.  I love these.  They are so cute.  In the same way that a bracelet is made you could also make a necklace.

Still want more button fun?

Go to readymademag for this cute way to make vintage buttons into chokers.  Instead of putting one button on the necklace, you could use three or more.

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Here is a free pattern for a crochet button bracelet, to go with your button theme!
http://world.std.com/~kcl/cbuttonbraclet.html
Melissa

Thanks for the reminder, Maria. I’d been meaning to try some of the button flowers. I’ll comment with a link to pics when I’m done with them. I love weekends – more crafty time!

Maria: Thanks so much for posting about these flowers. I’ve made them! I’ve put a pic here.

[...] Nope, these are are button flowers. I’d seen the idea on Kiddley,a while back. Maria’s great One hour crafts site provided a much-appreciated reminder about these little cuties. I followed the instructions on the ZOOM page at PBS. [...]

I’m looking for pictures of label pins or pins made with buttons. We have tons of buttons and thought it’d be neat for the kids to make the pins for gifts for the holidays. Can’t find anything online. Would you have a hint or any ideas on how to make them. Thanks

6 Dec 2006, 9:29pm
by Ruby N


I love the bracelet pictured above. I see the buttons are strung on two threads (what kind of thread and what king of closure is use?

[...] Dia added hers to the top of paper clips, Linda Permann at Craft Stylish wove hers into a coaster, One Hour Craft turned turns theirs into flowers and over at Home Hints buttons were glued to corks to make mini [...]

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