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Make beautiful fiber buttons

March 6, 2009 by Denise Felton 3 Comments

dorset

Diane Gilleland has posted a tute on CraftStylish for making Dorset buttons – beautiful fasteners or embellishments, and a great way to use up leftover bits of lovely fibers. See the tute.

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Comments

  1. sarajessica says

    March 7, 2009 at 7:56 am

    They are so bold and bright! Looks like fruit. 🙂

  2. Rabid says

    March 8, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    I just saw those the other day actually. I’m not sure what to think of them but the ones on the site she links are a bit cuter. It reminds me of the filling stitches in hardanger embroidery 🙂

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  1. Tutorial: Dorset-button brooch · Needlework News | CraftGossip.com says:
    November 8, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    […] Remember the tutorial by Sister Diane Gilleland (CraftyPod) for making dorset buttons? She has a great new use for those pretty tidbits — a dorset-button brooch. See her blog post for the how-to. […]

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