It all started out very innocently. I went to the Bryce Retreat and purchased a kit to make Nanette's (of Freda's Hive) bag.
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I think I was OK at that point.
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Inside my kit was a very cute covered button. In fact, I think I picked that particular kit because of the button.
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My friend Judi had a very cute button inside her kit, too.
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(*Michael Millers "Lava Bloom")
Then Nanette came into town, and we went shopping to some quilt stores together. She bought a yard of this fabric and pointed out how nicely it would make up into covered buttons. I bought a yard too, because deep down inside I am such a Nanette wannabe.
I think I was still OK at that point.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJV0c_LNAqIKteFPVX8qF2k5l6BXq932NHL-X3esE9ygAxUQhsYW_gJsOYvZWhR8m51PYcDmsg9suIfkiF0-_6Tu_IuLttiNKS_gLiX10Z5gCI0B2nFgCillUcCjU3L5hiWNYqDBAmB9c/s400/buttons2.jpg)
Then she did a tutorial HERE on how to make covered buttons, and showed the finished project.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsJ6ZvOi0GhpwQyv1aDn7k1U52XMFyEHdjePtO8MuEgthjjSzzZ5kar-5qIN9ZpoScJrNA70Soyn0FCRs8PUPc0OLJPsLEI6HR-Y4sD9Q4FjH-GcGlOfNNrK1vWoS3Fn0KWcfqo-ISVA/s320/buttons1.jpg)
She even put them together into a lovely jar.
Right then I knew I was in deep trouble. Is there a self help group out there for "Covered-button's -aholics?"
I think I was OK at that point.
Inside my kit was a very cute covered button. In fact, I think I picked that particular kit because of the button.
My friend Judi had a very cute button inside her kit, too.
(*Michael Millers "Lava Bloom")
Then Nanette came into town, and we went shopping to some quilt stores together. She bought a yard of this fabric and pointed out how nicely it would make up into covered buttons. I bought a yard too, because deep down inside I am such a Nanette wannabe.
I think I was still OK at that point.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJV0c_LNAqIKteFPVX8qF2k5l6BXq932NHL-X3esE9ygAxUQhsYW_gJsOYvZWhR8m51PYcDmsg9suIfkiF0-_6Tu_IuLttiNKS_gLiX10Z5gCI0B2nFgCillUcCjU3L5hiWNYqDBAmB9c/s400/buttons2.jpg)
Then she did a tutorial HERE on how to make covered buttons, and showed the finished project.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtsJ6ZvOi0GhpwQyv1aDn7k1U52XMFyEHdjePtO8MuEgthjjSzzZ5kar-5qIN9ZpoScJrNA70Soyn0FCRs8PUPc0OLJPsLEI6HR-Y4sD9Q4FjH-GcGlOfNNrK1vWoS3Fn0KWcfqo-ISVA/s320/buttons1.jpg)
She even put them together into a lovely jar.
Right then I knew I was in deep trouble. Is there a self help group out there for "Covered-button's -aholics?"
Every piece of fabric I look at now, I ask myself "Could I make a button out of that?"
I never used to have this problem.
(*I got these vintage fabrics from James Carroll Antiques of Anaconda, MT when they had a booth at our quilt show. jwmcbbyhsws@aol.com)
I'm a little late for the teapot exchange. Can't you just see in your mind Nanette's purse made out of various teapot fabrics, with a teapot button bringing them all together?
I especially liked the "sun", although the other designs are nice too.
Wonderland by MoMo for Moda Fabrics
(*Fresh Paint by Michele D' Amore for Marcus Fabrics)
Now I have my friends out scouting for me too. Ricci just spent two weeks traveling with Superior Threads to trade shows. At Paducah she saw this fabric and said "Buttons!".
I have been buying the covered button packs here and there at Joann's with my coupons. But then when Nanette did her tutorial, she gave us a resource to buy them at a less expensive price in BULK.
You can find them HERE.
Somebody stop me.