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This is part three on the inspiration I get from Pinterest. (letss1.tumblr.com) There is a fascination for me of jars filled with buttons.  The variation in the tones of white, the sizes, the shapes, the textures and the luminosity makes me want to find a way to display them.  Or maybe I just like to play with them. (flickr.com) Sometimes putting them in a pretty jar is all that is needed to display a collection of buttons. (zoomin24-7.blogspot.com) I thought this jar worked well for these identical buttons. (lauracaseyinteriors.com) I pin my button ideas to either my DIY board or my Neat Stuff board on pinterest so I have it for reference when I feel like some button therapy. (clothpaperscissors.com) I haven't tried this one yet but I think it is rising to the top of that "must try" list. (dbermangallery.com) This one is awesome.  It would be fun to do a series of dresses in buttons....if I could just stay foc...

I recently sorted all my buttons by color....obsessively.  I have had them for years.  They were in a jumbled mess in a large drawer for all those years until that day came when I could not stop sorting until they were all in old cigar boxes sorted by color and the white ones by size.  Now I have become obsessed with finding ways to use them.  This is my first attempt. I have been wanting to use numerals in some way so I decided to combine these two things. I tend to think with my hands and then I get ahead of myself.  That's what happened here.  I started laying the buttons on my printout.  I continued to tweak them until I had a layout that satisfied me.  Opps, no second printout and I had not traced my numerals on the fabric.  Easy?  It would have been if I had saved the original.  Luckily the font I used started with "A" so I didn't have to search for long. Sewing the buttons on took awhile and some adjustments had...