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Vintage Buttons

Posted on | August 5, 2009 | 7 Comments

There is just something about old buttons that make me so happy! There is a store here in NYC called Tender Buttons that I just adore. It has the most interesting old buttons and is heaven for someone who adores to design and wear cardigans – although I’ve been know to put a button onto a garment just for the sake of putting a button on a garment.

A few weeks ago, DH and I took a trip up to Lambertville, NJ to peruse a few antique stores and I came across these great finds. There was a whole basket full of vintage buttons calling, no screaming, out to me and at $3 a card, who could resist?

Love the tiny redish/pink ones!

Various jet black buttons. Some mixed designs.

These are my favorite and the most special of the bunch. We estimated these were pretty old – maybe 30s or 40s.

So now I need to decide or design what sweater to put them on. Only a very special sweater will do, but for now they’ll need to be put aside til all the deadline projects are done. They won’t be very far though, the more I think about designing something for them, the faster that deadline knitting will go. They’ll act as my knitter’s “carrot”!

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