tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post6991472820020357204..comments2024-03-22T05:18:29.555-04:00Comments on Romance Bandits: ButtonsLoucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02217492654108300014noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-6005259490058972022011-01-19T23:26:49.527-05:002011-01-19T23:26:49.527-05:00I have a button box too! I keep them all and never...I have a button box too! I keep them all and never throw one out. :)LilMissMollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05847160970054624743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-51888978594148907952011-01-19T23:24:53.982-05:002011-01-19T23:24:53.982-05:00Louisa said:
My Great Aunt Icie taught me to tat,...Louisa said:<br /><br /><i>My Great Aunt Icie taught me to tat, quilt, sew, net darn, cross stitch and do crewel embroidery. She worked all her life as a </i><br /><br />Wow, what a great skill set to have! I can crochet, embroider, cross stitch (just as a baby beginner,) But the truth is, I don't have time to do those things. And that's a shame.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-19342387726853215852011-01-19T23:19:15.579-05:002011-01-19T23:19:15.579-05:00PJ said:
I can sew on a button and I've made ...PJ said:<br /><br /><i>I can sew on a button and I've made a few Christmas stockings/ornaments but that's about the extent of my sewing ability.</i><br /><br />Okay, I have a sister in sewing. I prefer to stick to less complex stuff,so I don't end up in jail for murder--as in, for murdering the first person I encounter while I'm trying to sew clothing.<br /><br />And thanks for the kind words. *blushes*Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-91382096391278815712011-01-19T23:16:48.706-05:002011-01-19T23:16:48.706-05:00Joan said:
I am holding on to about 5 outfits she...Joan said:<br /><br /><i>I am holding on to about 5 outfits she sewed for me as a teenager. I know she was disappointed when I didn't take to the needle like she did. And while I have her sewing machine it does me little good....I always had to have her thread it!</i><br /><br />Awww...I would hold onto those too. I've decided to try to do a quilt with the pieces of the things my mom made for me. That way I keep a little of the love she sewed into each one.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-42541783477714562032011-01-19T23:13:35.924-05:002011-01-19T23:13:35.924-05:00Nancy said:
PinkPeony, buying fabric online wou...Nancy said:<br /><br /><i><br /><br />PinkPeony, buying fabric online wouldn't be nearly as satisfying, I think. How can you get a good idea of the texture? Or be sure the color is true?</i><br /><br />YES! Totally not the same.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-3764786209695969622011-01-19T23:12:31.043-05:002011-01-19T23:12:31.043-05:00Pink Peony said:
...the smell of sewing machine o...Pink Peony said:<br /><br /><i>...the smell of sewing machine oil, the waxy scent of tracing paper, fabric chalk...the sound of shears cutting through the tissue patterns and fabric...great memories. </i><br /><br />I think, if I had known it was a viable direction to go, I could have gone into fashion design. Not because I'm a fashion maven. Anybody who's met me knows it's just the opposite. But because of my love for fabric. Even now, when I go into Hancock's or even stroll through the fabric section at Wally World on my way to sporting goods, I have to linger by the bolts, check out the colors, and think about what I'd make out of those.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-66222594294730819292011-01-19T23:07:06.090-05:002011-01-19T23:07:06.090-05:00Catslady said:
I do have some buttons but nothing...Catslady said:<br /><br /><i>I do have some buttons but nothing like your collection. I get attached to everything and anything and have a problem throwing anything away. Maybe because my one grandmother who lived with us was like that and maybe because my mother was just the opposite and would throw everything away lol.</i><br /><br />See, I think there's a happy medium in there somewhere. I have to get rid of some things or life is kind of miserable. I can't clean properly, and can't keep things looking decent if there are piles around me (and there ARE piles around me). But I also want a few things around that connect me to my roots and remind me of where I came from.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-67420047094203247352011-01-19T23:02:27.509-05:002011-01-19T23:02:27.509-05:00Trish said:
And when you mentioned the flour sack...Trish said:<br /><br /><i>And when you mentioned the flour sack, that reminded me of all the times my mom has talked about how her and her sisters' dresses and her brothers' shirts were made from flour sakes in the 1940s and 1950s.</i><br /><br />Trish, my mom has told me about flour sack towels my whole life. Apparently they are better in any number of ways than the terry kitchen towels I use now. But I can't find them anywhere.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-64420284733967960132011-01-19T23:00:49.176-05:002011-01-19T23:00:49.176-05:00Beth Andrews said:
I have a button jar but my kid...Beth Andrews said:<br /><br /><i>I have a button jar but my kids don't play with them *g* I had to sew a button on my son's coat before he went back to college last week!<br /><br />And yes, I enjoy sewing - but I've mostly given it up until I can get a new sewing machine. The one I have tends to act up and it drives me crazy!</i><br /><br />Yes, it makes me nuts when a machine doesn't act right. I don't particularly enjoy sewing but it's an extremely useful skill, so I want to be equipped. I just got rid of my old machine and got a new one. Not fancy at all, but a better brand than I had before, and runs more smoothly and is less persnickety.<br /><br />I think I have to try this button jar thing. Since they're so pretty, why not have them be visible In my sewing box, they're totally hidden.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-15578559405086451722011-01-19T22:58:20.482-05:002011-01-19T22:58:20.482-05:00Sheree said:
I learned how to sew when I was abou...Sheree said:<br /><br /><i>I learned how to sew when I was about 9 or 10. I don't know if my grandmother had a button collection but I sure do. Besides, it's not like they take a lot of space (even less space than my book collection). </i><br /><br />You're RIGHT! They don't take up that much space. At least not at the level I managed. And they're so pretty!Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-27168458721250283862011-01-19T22:56:14.700-05:002011-01-19T22:56:14.700-05:00Nancy said:
Back in those long ago days of yore, ...Nancy said:<br /><br /><i>Back in those long ago days of yore, Home Ec was required for girls, Shop for boys. I think Shop would've been a lot more fun than basting seams and measuring (yes, with a ruler!) to be sure each placemat sat precisely an inch from the edge of the table. </i><br /><br />Gack! *Cassondra makes wretching sounds* <br /><br />Now let me just say...I AM a Goth Martha Stewart Mini-Me, and I love, love LOVE beautiful table settings, and I do know how to set a proper table (though not, perhaps, how to lay a proper tea, which I see as an intolerable lack in my education) but that sort of fussiness...I just don't have time for that. If there were a reason for it, I'd be all over it, but until there is a reason, no way. And should that reason arise, I can almost certainly find the criteria listed somewhere, and have no doubt that I can meet it. <br /><br />Oh, and I was in the first class of Vo-Ag (and, therefore, shop, since they were connected)that girls were allowed to take. I had to fight to get into it, and never looked back. I figured I could learn to set a proper table or roast a chicken from a book. Can't learn to weld, saw a board straight, or hammer a nail through hard wood from a book.<br /><br />Just sayin.<br /><br />And as to Home Ec, I manage I guess.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-26771827800835557122011-01-19T22:55:34.788-05:002011-01-19T22:55:34.788-05:00Nancy said:
Back in those long ago days of yore, ...Nancy said:<br /><br /><i>Back in those long ago days of yore, Home Ec was required for girls, Shop for boys. I think Shop would've been a lot more fun than basting seams and measuring (yes, with a ruler!) to be sure each placemat sat precisely an inch from the edge of the table. </i><br /><br />Gack! *Cassondra makes wretching sounds* <br /><br />Now let me just say...I AM a Goth Martha Stewart Mini-Me, and I love, love LOVE beautiful table settings, and I do know how to set a proper table (though not, perhaps, how to lay a proper tea, which I see as an intolerable lack in my education) but that sort of fussiness...I just don't have time for that. If there were a reason for it, I'd be all over it, but until there is a reason, no way. And should that reason arise, I can almost certainly find the criteria listed somewhere, and have no doubt that I can meet it. <br /><br />Oh, and I was in the first class of Vo-Ag (and, therefore, shop, since they were connected)that girls were allowed to take. I had to fight to get into it, and never looked back. I figured I could learn to set a proper table or roast a chicken from a book. Can't learn to weld, saw a board straight, or hammer a nail through hard wood from a book.<br /><br />Just sayin.<br /><br />And as to Home Ec, I manage I guess.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-19556000908173852852011-01-19T22:48:52.150-05:002011-01-19T22:48:52.150-05:00Becke said:
I think "sentimental reasons&quo...Becke said:<br /><br /><i>I think "sentimental reasons" should fall under that "functional" heading. I have a LOT of things I've saved for that reason!</i><br /><br />Me too, Becke. More than I should, perhaps. But there are worse reasons, right?Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-83161269210289812282011-01-19T21:54:40.579-05:002011-01-19T21:54:40.579-05:00My grandmother collected buttons and after her dea...My grandmother collected buttons and after her death, we found quite a few really old beautiful ones. My daughter loves them. <br /><br />We have an old manual peddle sewing machine that we use for stitching leather. I love to use it. My fascination is for old wooden spools and keep thinking that I'll do something with them someday.<br /><br />Love your post today!Laurie Loganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08957432244479640433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-31505150490382618072011-01-19T21:48:17.208-05:002011-01-19T21:48:17.208-05:00Oh, this brings back memories. Thanks! :D My gra...Oh, this brings back memories. Thanks! :D My grandmother was a seamstress so I have some good memories of going through all her sewing odds and ends and climbing on the bolts and bags of cloth filling the walk-in closet. My mum has a button uh...I guess, tub(old little ice cream tub) and I used to go through them and sort them and run my fingers through them and I remember that ssssluice sound of pouring them out. :DPissenlithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15652379987538733088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-46722308413884407782011-01-19T19:59:32.052-05:002011-01-19T19:59:32.052-05:00Love all the pictures, by the way!Love all the pictures, by the way!Margay Leah Justicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15490126898758440254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-27161094924014946202011-01-19T19:58:39.875-05:002011-01-19T19:58:39.875-05:00This reminds me of my mother. She's been sewin...This reminds me of my mother. She's been sewing for almost 70 years and has been a seamstress for almost 50 of them, so she has a wide collection of buttons in several old cookie tins. She still has one from when I was a kid! I love going over to her house to raid the tin when I need buttons for something. It's just fun to look through them and see all the different kinds she has - some actually look like pieces of jewelry.Margay Leah Justicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15490126898758440254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-64878709327932932842011-01-19T19:37:24.359-05:002011-01-19T19:37:24.359-05:00PinkPeony, at last you get the swatch. There'...PinkPeony, at last you get the swatch. There's a big fabric store not too far from me. It has been in business for decades, draws from a regional customer base, I think.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13705259501965011703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-67175955951410363652011-01-19T19:18:43.081-05:002011-01-19T19:18:43.081-05:00Nice catch, Jane !! You may have the urge to throw...Nice catch, Jane !! You may have the urge to throw the GR out before the day is over! Be patient with him!<br /><br />Cassondra, what a wonderful post!<br /><br />Before I started writing again I did a lot of sewing and needlework. My Great Aunt Icie taught me to tat, quilt, sew, net darn, cross stitch and do crewel embroidery. She worked all her life as a seamstress, but the last twenty years of her working life she designed and made drapes for people's homes. She lived in Montgomery which is an Air Force town and many of her clients sent her photos of their windows wherever they moved and asked her to design and make drapes for them. I was so fortunate to live close to her at the end of her life and to learn so much about needlework from her. <br /><br />She had numerous button boxes and when she passed away at the age of 93 those button boxes and several boxes of fabric came to me. One of these days I am going to incorporate those old buttons into a quilt design. Many of those buttons have to be a hundred or more years old. <br /><br />Some of those old buttons are real works of art!Louisa Cornellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971924594129471055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-24557510059516923302011-01-19T18:47:24.905-05:002011-01-19T18:47:24.905-05:00Deb said:
... It started in the late 1930s when m...Deb said:<br /><br /><i>... It started in the late 1930s when my grandpa worked at Quaker Oats and would bring home the flour and grain sacks that had pretty designs on them and she would make little dresses and play outfits for my mom. Gram would take all of her granddaughters shopping before their birthdays and we would find an outfit we really liked. She'd sketch it in a notebook, go home and make a newspaper pattern, and for our birthdays we would have an outfit that looked just like store outfit.</i><br /><br />Oh my gosh! Do you have any of those outfits anywhere? I would so frame that and hang it on the wall! <br /><br /><i>Buttons, especially old ones, are fascinating. I remember one short and top outfit from childhood (yep, Gram made it) that was tan with small orange flowers and root beer barrell-shaped buttons adorned the front of it. As a teacher, I still use buttons for game markers and as counters. </i><br /><br />I just don't know what it is about buttons. There is some serious magic there. Maybe if we figured it out, it wouldn't be as awesome?Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-69593750673790810182011-01-19T18:44:13.415-05:002011-01-19T18:44:13.415-05:00Anna Campbell said:
My best friend in primary sch...Anna Campbell said:<br /><br /><i>My best friend in primary school was a marvel with a needle - she made some beautiful dresses for my Barbies. Actually the Barbie box in my storeroom has memories just like your button box. There were all sorts of bits and pieces in there apart from dresses and much-loved Barbie dolls. A couple of years ago, I had it out for some reason and I was whisked straight back to my childhood self!</i><br /><br />Don't those people amaze you? Talk about tedium! If sewing human clothes overwhelms me, no way could I even consider doll clothes. I think those items which take us back to our roots are sort of grounding in a way. As writers, we may need that more than most, actually, since we live in our heads so much.Cassondrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07420982030156788059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-39010332014588895912011-01-19T18:37:25.076-05:002011-01-19T18:37:25.076-05:00I love your blogs, Cassondra!
My mom sewed and I...I love your blogs, Cassondra! <br /><br />My mom sewed and I remember her having a lot of buttons but practical ones, not whimsical. With four rowdy boys, there was always a need for practical buttons. My grandma crocheted and embroidered but I don't have memories of her sewing, though I'm sure she probably did. We bonded in the kitchen and garden so those memories are most vivid for me.<br /><br />I can sew on a button and I've made a few Christmas stockings/ornaments but that's about the extent of my sewing ability.pjpuppymomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18234101901405553621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-85033551188426707862011-01-19T18:31:25.051-05:002011-01-19T18:31:25.051-05:00This blog post drove me into my Mom's arms.
C...This blog post drove me into my Mom's arms.<br /><br />Choked up here.<br /><br />Mom sewed wonderfully and had a button jar filled with every kind of button you could imagine. <br /><br />I am holding on to about 5 outfits she sewed for me as a teenager. I know she was disappointed when I didn't take to the needle like she did. And while I have her sewing machine it does me little good....I always had to have her thread it!Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12566704374877697300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-54556341531952699892011-01-19T18:24:56.081-05:002011-01-19T18:24:56.081-05:00Nancy...
You're absolutely right! They'll ...Nancy...<br />You're absolutely right! They'll send you a swatch, but it's not quite the same as looking at a yard of the fabric on the table at the store.PinkPeonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08474965710589933443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-41461178666881705962011-01-19T17:55:46.441-05:002011-01-19T17:55:46.441-05:00PinkPeony, buying fabric online wouldn't be ne...PinkPeony, buying fabric online wouldn't be nearly as satisfying, I think. How can you get a good idea of the texture? Or be sure the color is true?Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13705259501965011703noreply@blogger.com