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Button washing day
A few months ago I bought a huge bag of vintage buttons. Enough buttons to fill a 40oz peanut butter jar. The buttons were soooo dirty that I hated to touch them. I spent a couple of hours over the last couple of days cutting off the fabric and threads that were left on some of the buttons and today I washed them. Which was an interesting project all in itself. Some of the mother of pearl buttons are tiny and I couldn't just wash them in the sink - they would go down the drain. So I ended up sewing a really huge tube out of cheesecloth - put the buttons in it and then soaked them in the sink. Then to really clean them I put them in the dishwasher in a special basket that holds utensils. Worked well - now they just have to dry.
Now that's a ton of buttons. Got any real pretty ones?
Love & Hugs
Fran
Awesome, never thought about washing mine. Maybe I should, I have tons. Way more than you have here. Hehehe!!
Posted by: Sandra Corson-walker at August 28, 2006 8:31 AMWooooooo-eeeeee! I am a button NUT! It's my grandmother's fault! She got me started loving buttons when I was 8 years old, and I've had a love affair with them ever since! These are terrific! And sqeaky clean, too! LOL!
Posted by: kai at August 28, 2006 2:11 PMWow!!!! Judy wish I had this beautiful variety when I was doing my table.I never thought about washing buttons but come to think of it they would need washing like anything else, an miss clean here didn't even think of it haha
Posted by: jacque at August 28, 2006 3:12 PMOh I love buttons. I always wash the old ones too. I have found that oxiclean does a great job. And I use a colander to wash them in. LIke your idea of the cheese cloth tube. I may just do that next time.
I had to wash a lot of buttons I bought, too. Like Auntie Linda, I did them in a colander, in a sink full of dawn dishwashing liquid. It was actually a lot of fun, picking and sorting through them aferward. Mine were dirty and off-smelling, so the trimming and sorting had to wait!
Posted by: Sue K at September 4, 2006 4:27 AM
Make your own version of Judi's dolls.
Many patterns available!
