Hubris
Did you catch that? That tiny little throw away line at the end yesterday? That spot where I said “All I have to do is find buttons.” Yeah. I thought I heard someone cackle when they read that. It’s not so simple is it? I looked through the button box (along the way realizing I need a much larger stash of buttons on hand…mine is really quite pathetic). Nothing appealed. Not even a bit. So now I have a soft, fuzzy, hand spun, hand knit neck wrap…all washed and well blocked…and no way to hold it on. For the meantime I’m using a hair skewer (a pretty bone thing, pleasantly barbaric), but I’ll have to find buttons eventually. Any great online sources? I’m thinking I need to scour etsy for a few large lots of vintage buttons just to give me a bit more general selection for future projects.
Sadly, the size of the button stash has little relationship to finding buttons for a particular project. I have a… (cough)… huge… (cough) button stash, and I still rarely have the buttons needed for the project du jour.
But it’s a fun stash/habit to have, nonetheless. Highly recommended, in fact!
Ack. Say it ain’t so! At least 500 buttons takes up less space than 500 skeins of yarn, right?