Dorset buttons

Want to learn how to make a Dorset button - but prefer written instructions?Here's a free PDF with photographic step-by-step instructions to make a Dorset Crosswheel (also known as a Cartwheel) button. Buttons made on metal rings are believed to have first been made in Dorset around 1730. They are great to use as embellishments, jewellery, and even as actual buttons! Click here for your downl

With the holidays coming up, hand-made trinkets, ornaments, and decorations are on my mind! They are especially on my mind right now because, here in the studio, we're in the throes of creating a little line of lovely and fun Christmas ornaments. That shouldn't surprise you - I've been sneak-pee

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Dorset Buttons,

Download free a selection of Dorset Button worksheets

I had an interesting Facebook exchange with someone yesterday regarding some new thread buttons I've been teaching myself to make. These...

I’ve been lurking in this group for a while. This is my first ever ‘button’ made using a curtain ring and the principles I’ve learned from the wonderful...

I collect buttons! And who doesn’t love buttons? They are useful and pretty and have served for art inspiration over the years. And my parents generation played the game “Button, button, who’s got the button?” growing up. I have some of my Grandmother’s buttons as well as my Mother’s in my button co

Really are addictive aren’t they?

Another button I made

I had a wonderful time at Knitting & Stitching in Olympia yesterday - a little (and VERY busy) workshop making dorset buttons on the day my first book was published! I ran out of worksheets, so as promised here is a tutorial for the little buttons which feature in my first two books - if you play around with colours you can create a myriad of unique designs - use them on linen & cotton clothes, to secure little purses, as little badges or simply to decorate projects... you will need (for…

Dorset Buttons - TJFrog

Try some intriguing variations and attractive embellishments on traditional heirloom buttons.

To make your own Dorset button all you need are the following: Approximately 6 metres of two different coloured yarn A...

Since I'm posting to the “Making Dorset Buttons” group, I practiced Dorset style ring buttons for the first time in a while. It was fun 😊