My aunt gave me a literal barrel of vintage buttons. A smallish one, but still. It isn’t like I didn’t already have a barrel of my own buttons and now I have two. My kid and I have been sorting buttons like a couple of magpies. “Oh look at this one. It’s so sparkly!” In the midst of the chaos that is two people who both love to SORT things and also are easily distracted by shiny stuff, the design for this embroidery sprang fully formed into my head.
Embroidery is not one of my skills and I have never made hoop art so I don’t really know what to do to finish it, but I DID use 100% vintage thrifted materials, from the linen to every piece of thread. So that was nice. I didn’t have to get “just one little thing” to complete it. Every time I showed my kid the progress, he blushed and giggled. So worth it.
Thanks! Yep, vintage hoop, vintage thread, buttons, linen, even the needles I used are vintage 2nd hand out of my husband’s grandmother’s sewing box, because that was what was at hand.
