I got a little excited when I was finally re-mobilized on this project and snipped off the plain buttons before I thought to take a "before" picture. Ugh.
After scouring my popcorn tin full of vintage buttons, I couldn't find any that were sparkly enough, so I took one of the snipped buttons to the store to compare sizes. I found these.
Turns out, when you use three-dimensional sparkly buttons to replace flat boring ones, they won't fit through the original holes ... so it was back to the button aisle.
Next stop: fabric, lace & ribbons. Everything was too fussy and scratchy for a gift. Fortunately, in an unrelated aisle, I found the softest scarf in the word ... complete with sequins!!! I've seen some prom dresses made of these ruffles. They remind me of a little of the dress that Val bought Kaylee for the shindig on Firefly, but that's a bunny trail for another blog.
The sequins presented another issue. I have a blouse with sequins that were heat pressed to it instead of sewn, just like this scarf, and had a bit of a problem on a super hot day when I went out to lunch with my husband. When I got out of his car to enter the restaurant, most of the sequins on the back had adhered themselves to the leather seat back. Yipe. Naturally, the next person to sit in my husband's car was his boss. What a sparkly ride that was!
Anyway, given that knowledge, I knew that I did not want to put the scarf anywhere near a leather car seat, let alone a dryer. This led to the solution of using the scarf to create a pin that can be removed prior to washing.
You can see, the scarf completely hides the buttons (or lack thereof). If I hadn't removed them in the first place, I would have saved myself some work!
But, because I had finally found the perfect sized buttons, I sewed them on. This way, she can wear the sweater with or without the scarf pin. Happy Birthday, Natalie!
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