May 2026 – “Hurray for Buttons Day!”
I love to go through containers of old buttons: jars, boxes, old cookie tins. It is fun to see the many designs and colors. I love mother of pearl buttons. Years ago, I designed a dress around a collection of mismatched ones, making a shirt dress with button holes all the way to the hem. The smallest ones at the top and getting progressively larger as they went down. We had the pleasure of listening to Jan H from the Iowa Button Society share how she started button collecting and the many types of buttons out there. Did you know, they have used coconuts to make buttons? And that there is a button museum in Muscatine Iowa, which was once the button capital of the US? So much to learn and the way she displayed her many sets has gotten my creative juices flowing. Of course, the meeting ended with our favorite – sew and share.
Sew and Share, as always, never disappoints. Here are some of the creations:
