Big Buttons

 Buttons :) ...i just LoVe buttons and over my crafty career i have used them in many ways and added them to many stitched samplers and quilts..............this time i am showing you the big button quilt.....

 ................as a celebration of my button love i made this contemporary style applique quilt for my new book, modern vintage gifts...........and i made the applique buttons nice and big :)..................

 .............i have it on display here at the moment on my new quilt ladder, with the star quilt (also from the book)................the quilt ladder is my new favourite thing and i will be taking lots more pictures of it i can tell.......

 ..............some other views of the big button quilt now............

 ............showing the purple polka dot backing fabric and striped black and white binding............

 ...............the full quilt shot from a page in the book............

 ............and a close up of a big red applique button..............

 .............below is a little halloween bunny who is part of my autumn decorations.......she has a pretty skirt with a jack o lantern patch and matching ear linings, a stripy purple scarf and pumpkin coloured crochet jumper............the fabric piles from the big sort out are now being put back in the cupboard but there is a huge bag of not yet sorted fabrics to be dealt with....sometime.....

 .............halloween bunny perched now on the quilt ladder........

 ...............i had to include some real buttons here today.......i like taking photos of buttons so it is nice to have a reason............every now and then i buy some more and i have been given a lot too.....i use them so much in my work that i can never have too many........

 ................below is one of the button jars currently in use....i also keep buttons in small sectioned boxes, pretty tins and floral drawstring bags.................

 ...............the past week was a very busy but lovely one, with a lot of designing, crafting and happy times with family and old friends.........time has just flown by and i need to catch up here with my blog friends this week..............

................thank you for visiting me here dear readers, and for all your lovely comments..........i wish you all a wonderful week with happy crafty times as we move into november.........keep cosy........back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxooooooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx