ScrapFabric Buttons

I really enjoyed making ScrapFabric So I decided to make more and this time to make some black and grey fabric buttons.

I chose the fabrics from the grey fabric "paintbox"

Grey fabric scraps

And added some more black to the mix

Black fabric scraps

Tossed it around in a bowl so that the darker pieces were randomly mixed in

Black and grey fabric remnants

Stitched the pieces to create a piece of black grey ScrapFabric, which I then cut into squares

Cutting squares

I ended up with 9 squares

ScrapFabric squares

I needed to make holes so that they can be used as buttons. I finally found my hole puncher but it didn't do the trick so I had to find another solution - a hammer and a large nail or 2.

Hammer and nails

A wooden slat to hammer into

Wooden slat

Positioning the nail and pressing it a bit to mark the place for the hole.

Position the nail

Pressing it in and then hammering it down into the wooden slat through the fabric.

Press the nail down

I leave the first nail in so that I get an idea where to position the second one.

The first hole

Hammer that in as well

Hammer both nails in

Pull them out of the wooden slat and push them through the holes that I made

Push the nails though the fabric

A ScrapFabric button.

ScrapFabric button