Buttons
I love buttons. I have early memories of playing with my maternal grandmother Dede's (short for Dorothy Drew) buttons. I loved their colors and textures then and do to this day. I inherited a button box from my other grandmother who was trained as a Home Economics teacher and who saved buttons and have added to it with my own purchased buttons and even buttons from old garments. I love button blankets created by the Coast Salish tribes. The buttons were mostly created from shells are shiny white against the black and red background of the blankets. I have used buttons on quilts to embellish and recently added buttons to a collage I created. This sweet little piece (about 8 1/2 x 11 inches) was created for a challenge at a local quilt shop and it won a 2nd place viewer's choice prize. I had to use the speckled fabric that you see in the number 25. I commemorated our 25th wedding anniversary in 2009 with the numbers and surrounded it with 25 hearts and 25 buttons.
