... or embroider with buttons a real picture.
And do not forget to show the children how many ways to sew the most ordinary button with four holes.
Such a button can be a separate decorative object of clothing or accessories, if for the sewing to take, for example, a thick yarn of contrasting color.
Sending flat buttons to clothing from dense tissues, it is necessary to make a filament leg, otherwise the silhouette of the buttons is ugly imprinted on the fabric. A button with a dense thread is:
Very often, small flat buttons duplicate from the weld of large buttons, sewn to board: first, so the iznanka looks more careful, and secondly, the side is additionally strengthened. If a large "facial" button is flat, then for it it is also necessary to make a filament leg.
Buttons are undoubtedly part of the dress decor. But recently, many use them and to decorate the interior. And this is not only children's crafts.
Buttons can be part of, for example, a landscape made by oil on canvas.
Or the basis for the color circle ...
Funny miniature, etc.
Buttons are glued on floral porridge ...
... make out of them multicolored stickers.
By the way, make a sticker from buttons - and even a bouquet - superpost.
Take a flexible wire (better floral), thread one end of a wire segment into one button of buttons (or a row of buttons - from a larger button
Diameter to smaller), then stretch the wire to the middle and thread it in the opposite direction through the second button of buttons. Now connect both ends of the wire and twist them. Sticker ready.
In the same way, the principle is created by jewelry with buttons.
And with the help of glue.
As a rule, the buttons are glued to the flap of felt, as to the base, it is glued to the brooches to it.
With the help of glue and felt, fashionable large necklaces are manufactured.
To do this, first put buttons on the substrate from the fabric (necessarily with non-switching cuts!), Make sure they formed a beautiful composition.
Then circle the composition of the buttons, cut the fabric on this circuit, visiting the inner side of the chain or viul. And glue buttons, as conceived.
The necklace, by the way, can be obtained, and just beautifully flashing buttons (photo below).
Buttons are often tightened with cloth or finishing under the color of the fabric, or the product fabric. And you can also pre-embroider tiny motifs on the fabric.
Buttons are tied with crochet and even knit
Simultaneously with jewelry, buttons "mastered" and accessories. For example, hats, hair rims, bags or shoes.
And of course, buttons are welcome guests in such types of needlework as scrapbooking or floristics.
How to replace buttons on jeans
Sometimes it happens not so easy to do! For example, you have a button on the jeans together with a piece of fabric, to which it was sewn or on which was broken. Do not hurry to upset - if you have a cut off button, perfectly, and if the button is lost, then carefully read the loop. Usually, jeans are installed on jeans or sewn metal buttons on a floating leg. Therefore, in any case, you will need a button on the leg of the diameter corresponding to the loop length. Be sure to measure the height of the leg: impose inside the loop a ruler with millimeter divisions and calculate how much the leg should lift the button over the cloth. It is better if the leg will be slightly higher than this value.
If you have a button with a piece of fabric, you will have to put a patch: cut 2 small pieces of tight fabric suitable for color, one put on the hole, the second is for it. Stretch by car with a dense narrow zigzag in different directions, capturing the tissue of trousers.
For the punching of the buttons there is a special press with nozzles, but for the work of the house there is a few. And indeed, it is easier to use the hammer and shell, and in principle the same result. Before making a hole, the fabric should be strengthened with fliseline from the wrong side. Pick the work surface on which you will punch a hole - it should be quite rigid and durable, best metallic. Plug the hole in the fabric and insert the button of buttons into it. Turn the button to the upper part down and clog it with a hammer on the leg.
A bit of history
Do you know what appeared first - brooch or a button? It turns out, brooch, or hairpin. According to one of the ancient Greek legends, Athenian women somehow in the anger, the messenger of the messenger, who brought them the news of the death in the battle of their husbands.
Buttons often served overalls. The Slavs had an unclean effect of red buttons, and the name "Buttons" still associates the word "scare" until now. Button in the shape of an egg and today is considered a symbol of fertility. To Peter the Great Number and the form of buttons on clothes testified about the social status of their owner. And the shaped buttons today speak about the same ...
Buttons as a jewelry appeared in Europe in the era of knights, and the men introduced them to the fashion, decorated with rows of gold buttons with gems of sleeves from above to the bottom (of course, the price of buttons much exceeded the price of the clothes itself). Women preferred to enjoy on the old fashioned pins. Soon, however, the beautiful half of humanity also joined the fashionable race, often choosing tissues under the buttons, and not the opposite.
Manual design and painstaking work, various techniques of manufacture, painting decor, valuable materials (and these are not only metals and stones, but also a mother of pearl, or bone) - all this led to the appearance of philobootons - collecting buttons.
True, this passion requires sufficiently large investments ... much easier and more pleasant to engage in collecting different ways to use buttons in needlework ...