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I went the rounds with a new sewing buddy yesterday and came home with some great buttons, inexpensive ones too. I am trying to restrain myself right now after all the reckless spending on buttons last month - seriously, almost 500 crowns on buttons, which translates to 70 dollars today, and most of them were not even expensive. Self control is clearly needed, and clearly not present at the moment..
But, you know, scottie dog buttons! Faux carved bakelite scottie buttons! I'm not even a dog person, but how could I resist? They are a little over 3 centimeters wide, and a little under 3 centimeters high, so fairly large, and very obviously not anything even close to bakelite when you touch them and look at the backside. But the illusion is good enough from the front, and I think they will look great on a fitted little tweed jacket or something.
The naval buttons are the ones I originally wanted for that grey sailor skirt (which I still haven't finished, because the summer just petered out when I got home from Kesudalen and the weather went cold). I forgot where I bought them and couldn't find them, but stumbled across them yesterday - at 1 crown apiece. That's 14 cents. I bought ten and will use the pea coat buttons for a warm pair of wool trousers with a buttoned sailor flap instead, I think.
The third thing pictured here is the bar of one of four pairs of vintage, very wide trouser hooks and bars - quite expensive, but much sturdier and better than the small, narrow ones available today. I often use two for wide waistbands, with these I won't have to, and I just love vintage haberdashery, excuses or no excuses.
But, you know, scottie dog buttons! Faux carved bakelite scottie buttons! I'm not even a dog person, but how could I resist? They are a little over 3 centimeters wide, and a little under 3 centimeters high, so fairly large, and very obviously not anything even close to bakelite when you touch them and look at the backside. But the illusion is good enough from the front, and I think they will look great on a fitted little tweed jacket or something.
The naval buttons are the ones I originally wanted for that grey sailor skirt (which I still haven't finished, because the summer just petered out when I got home from Kesudalen and the weather went cold). I forgot where I bought them and couldn't find them, but stumbled across them yesterday - at 1 crown apiece. That's 14 cents. I bought ten and will use the pea coat buttons for a warm pair of wool trousers with a buttoned sailor flap instead, I think.
The third thing pictured here is the bar of one of four pairs of vintage, very wide trouser hooks and bars - quite expensive, but much sturdier and better than the small, narrow ones available today. I often use two for wide waistbands, with these I won't have to, and I just love vintage haberdashery, excuses or no excuses.
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