The pattern I’m working on offers the option of putting buttons in the center of each of 6 squares. I’m not sure yet whether of not I would do that, but since I am now done square number 5, I thought I’d take a break and look through my button tins. Every time I found 6 of a kind that might work, I popped them into an egg carton to keep them organized, and to hopefully prevent the cats from turning them into new toys.
I am lucky to have my grandmother’s tin, as well as several more given to me by friends from their grandmothers. That’s a lot of grandmother buttons. It goes to show what brings one person joy can be another person’s clutter. It also might indicate my tendency toward craft hoarding probably has its roots that go back at least a couple of generations.
alookatthelittlethings 
Very nice button collection.
I love it. I need to start using them for more things instead of just keeping them in tins.
A great collection of buttons. Are you a collector or you merely keep them for your work?
Shakti
I am not a collector, I’m just lucky that people keep giving them to me so the collection has grown without my having to do much about it.
Your pretty button collection is making me want to start one of my own 🙂
You should! They are useful for so many things and it’s good to always have them on hand and in one place.
If we all combined our button collections, we’d have a mountain the size of Everest!
Most likely! This is only a small portion of the FOUR tins that I have. 🙂