Day 290 : Floof

 

Day 290 : Floof

Today's button is made up of an inkle woven tape, twisted cord and a pompom. Might be the influence of kittens in the house making me create pompoms two nights in a row? 

The tape is a smallish piece I had left over, it has a double row of dots and that gives the appearance of little beads. 

Friday! What a week. I'm really looking forward to a lie-in haha!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Size : 27mm / 1 1⁄16" / 42L

Day 289 : Sugar Plum

 

Day 289 : Sugar Plum

I know, the name is a bit out of season, but this toggle button made me think of candy, and I already have a button named Candy! The centre is a nice dark plum sort of shade, so I think it works. Perhaps if the Sugar Plum fairy wears a duffle coat with toggles in bad weather, these would be the ones. Gosh I like that imagine! The Sugar Plum Fairy in a duffle coat! Might have to get the sketchbook out tonight! I like these types of toggle button, the ends are effectively mini pompoms, and who doesn't like a pompom, really? The binding is a Turks head knot. 

I hope that those of you about to go into new lockdown measures are doing ok. It is very frustrating that things are picking up again.

Size: 18mm / 3⁄4" / 30L

Day 288 : Ring o' Roses

Day 288 : Ring o' Roses

A soutache button for today. I saw a similar centre on something many years ago and drew it up, soutache works perfectly for it. I was struck by how like roses it is. 

Apparently, the connection with the nursery rhyme and the plague was not a theory until the 1950s. Just about everyone knows that, which goes to show how things can travel - and that is without global media as we now have. Food for thought.

A good day today, my fosterlings have found The Best Home ever! I'm so very happy about it, despite the fact that I will miss them (they are so very adorable)

Size: 35mm / 1 3⁄8" / 54L