I started a new blog!

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Quilts and Buttons over at Blogspot is going to be more of a creative playground for me. While All About Appliqué was created to be a resource center for those interested in the art of appliqué, Quilts and Buttons is where I can branch out and show all of the stuff that I work on besides appliqué!

If you’re at all interested, come on by and check it out! You can follow it by email or in a blog reader, just like All About Appliqué. Hope to see you there!

Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Kay’s Etsy Shop

Besides being a quilter, for the last couple years I’ve been seriously into buttons. Not the antique kind that you mount on cards and keep in a collection, but cute and colorful buttons that I use to make notecards, magnets, flowers, and whatever else I can think of.

Okay so sometimes it’s the little things in life… truth be told it’s a whole lot of fun to sit down and sort a newly acquired batch of buttons to see what you’ve got.

Sometimes there are some head-scratchers.

When you think of a button, usually it’s gonna have two holes or four holes, for sewing through to attach to a garment. Right? Well I’ve come across some pretty peculiar buttons in the way of holes, and have been tossing them in a box for further contemplation.

Let us begin.

no-holes

That’s right, zero holes. All I can say is, hmmmm…. trying to think how can be attached…

one-hole

Here we have the one-hole button. Especially fascinating is the one-hole off-center specimen. Again, how can the attachment occur?

two-holes

Now we’re getting closer to a conventional button, but these buttonholes don’t seem to like one another.

caffeine

No more Starbucks for you.

three-holes

I can kind-of see how these might be attached, but it seems a bit of trouble.

puppies

Three holes off-center. These have got me stumped.

row

Four holes lined up like ducks in a row. That’s a hard shirt to button.

five-holes

The purple one says, I make an M… cool right? So green… what’s your story.

tiny-holes

Hope you weren’t planning on using button thread for these.

square

triangular

oblong

flower

Round is so boring.

quality-control

We love you just the way you are.

different

Wild child!

eight-holes

And last, my absolute favorite. Spoiled for choice of holes! Eight, count ’em, eight! Pick two, pick four, or sew through all of them if you truly enjoy attaching buttons. It’s a button-sewer’s paradise.

I enjoy my little collection of oddball buttons. And please, if you know the reasoning behind the various configurations of holes, enlighten us!

Until next time,
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Kay’s Etsy Shop