{"id":1156,"date":"2012-03-05T13:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2012-03-05T13:58:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T21:58:11","slug":"washer-and-wool-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Washer and Wool Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the the process of making my life a bit lighter. So I tackled three shelves in my clothes closet. Do I really need tee shirts from the 80s and 90s?<\/p>\n<p>I gave my neice the cool shirt that changes color with your body heat and those gift shirts that I never wore.<\/p>\n<p>While I was going through the stacks of shirts, I found a great gray cardigan that had googly eyes for buttons. Since I didn\u2019t have a set of buttons to replace the googly eyes, I grabbed some stainless steel washers and wool and made some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbuttonsociety.org\/20070401DorsetButtons.htm\" >Dorset<\/a>-like buttons.<\/p>\n<p>I started by using a wrap and knot technique. With every wrap, the needle was taken through the loop made during the wrap process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/WoolWasherButton5_1141.jpg\" alt=\"Loop Through\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/WoolWasherButton2_3845.jpg\" alt=\"Button 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I felt that the result was a bit fussy for the cardigan so I wrapped a washer with wool and bound it to another washer. Then the lot was stitched to the sweater.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/WoolWasherButton4_1140.jpg\" alt=\"Wrap Technique\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/WoolWasherButton3_3844.jpg\" alt=\"Button 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bulkier button seemed a better fit with the style of the cardigan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/WoolWasherButton1_1133.jpg\" alt=\"Wool and Washer Buttons\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the the process of making my life a bit lighter. So I tackled three shelves in my clothes closet. Do I really need tee shirts from the 80s and 90s? I gave my neice the cool shirt that changes color with your body heat and those gift shirts that I never wore. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=1156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washer and Wool Buttons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needlework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}