Petit Pillow Pals/Cute cushion character creations – Who knows?

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Have I lost the plot??? I just can’t stop making things and adding buttons!!!

 

I have more scraps of fabric than I know what to do with, so, I started making little cute fun fabric ‘pillow pals’/’cute character (mini) cushions’. These are what happened after a day of supposedly tidying up!

It gave an new outlet to the many million buttons I need to give a new home to. Oh well, never mind to the new mess I made as well, I suppose 🙂

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There is no end to those little bits!!!!!!!!!! I try and use them but they are still there, only now, smaller!!!!!!!!

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Using up those little bits!

I really do seem to be in sewing overdrive at the moment I am trying to recycle little bits and bobs that many others would have thrown away when they were at least double the size. I really do hoard, though you never know when something might come in handy for a future project (well that’s my excuse) These little wall pictures have been created from tiny left over pieces of felt and hand sewn onto fragments of tapestry backing I had ”lying” about in one of my many ‘save and see’ boxes. I came across a couple of salvaged wooden frames in another ‘save and see’ bag whilst ”””’TIDYING UP”””” Oh My! The tidying up went right out of the window I am now somewhere underneath the most humongous pile of felt offcuts at the moment – even I am feeling the urge to get the hoover tools and suck the mess off the conservatory table, goodness knows what my husband thinks when he comes home each night from work – Thankfully he never says anything about the state of ”’MY work space”’ 

One day I might have a clear table and empty ‘save and see’ boxes but I won’t hold my breath!

Below are the other colour variations to this theme

 

Purple version

Green version (oops forgot to photograph this before I had framed and taped the back up so there is some reflection on the image)

 

Blue version

 

 

Button Craft – Recycling Old Buttons – Trinket Box Button Craft

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Recycling Old Buttons

Having acquired probably thousands of old buttons over the years, my main idea is to give them all, at some point, a second chance. Recycling them, usually not in the way they were designed to be used, as fasteners on clothing, but as decorative and creative pieces of artwork. Also in this section, of Button Craft, you will see my original idea of creating little character “Button Craft – ‘Button Buddy’ Brooches – Recycling Old Buttons ” as Brooches and on Button Craft – My ‘Button Buddy’ Characters. This little wooden box has been covered with what we now consider to be out of fashion old brass and pewter buttons. On their own they seem worthless, not so, now arranged as decorative and beautiful on this little trinket box!

Below are other little trinket boxes covered in Recycled Old Buttons