Buttons : The PhatSheep Handmade Button Swap 2

Remember the button swap I participated in a few weeks ago ? This was the Handmade Button Swap organized by PhatSheep. We had to handmake a coherent set of 6 buttons. I am amazed about the variation ! Fabric, fimo, linen, velvet, crochet, painted, embroidered, ceramics, felted etc. Have a look at all the entries (even more pictures here):


1. Gemma Grace: starfish shell embroidered buttons
2. jennypepper: Nuno felt buttons
3. incywincystitches: embroidered fabric buttons
4. Phatsheep Textiles: Fimo buttons and fabric buttons
5. Jacqui: linen embroidered buttons and fimo buttons
6. tiptoptoppersbyruth: fimo buttons with seed beads pressed in
7. dhop76: embroidered leaf buttons
8. pyewacket42: linen buttons with silk french knots embroidery
9. namolio: Knitted poppies with velvet covered buttons as the centre
10. jennyflowerblue: Fimo pearl effect buttons
11. noisette handmade: linen painted buttons
12. P8 Accessories & Button Art: ceramic casted and painted buttons

Buttons : The PhatSheep Handmade Button Swap

For the first time I participated in a swap. This was the Handmade Button Swap organized by PhatSheep. We had to handmake a coherent set of 6 buttons and an item of our choice that's using a handmade button. And this all before the 14th of February. I found it very exciting !

I decided to make some buttons by casting ceramic powder (into chocolate forms), drilling holes into them and painting them with turquoise and silver mother of pearl glass colour. It was great fun !

The item I made was a brooch made of one large vintage grey button in the middle with lots of small vintage grey buttons sewn around it. Everything is topped of with one of the ceramic buttons I made for this swap, turning it into a blue-silvery flower.

This was the extra item I made, using a much larger specimen of the handmade buttons I made for the swap. It's a necklace made of a sheer grey-silvery fabric tube, filled with silver painted wooden beads and knotted together with the large ceramic shank heart button in the middle.


And this is what I received today from noisette handmade. She made me a set of 6 beautiful linen buttons painted with 6 different motives: ladybird, bird, leaf, heart, apple & mushroom. They are so sweet ! Her item was a linen pouch with a blue & white striped bottom and a large linen button sewed on it; it's so cute ! And I got an extra blue felt flower brooch from her too. Moreover, she gave me some lovely piece of fabric, some pieces of trims, some red buttons and chocolate (!).
Thank you so much noisette to make this first swap an unforgettable one ! You can see all the entries coming in here.