Felted Buttons!!!

I felt my new blanket needed a little arty addition from me (Kristin's design is fantastic, but I wanted to make it more ME)...so I got my felting machine out, a green piece of felt, and the array of wool pieces I bought in an art store in Fort Bragg last December. The colors happen to match the blanket perfectly. I cut them up and felted them to the green piece of novelty felt. Then I added strands of Lion Brand Woolese yarn I am using to knit the blanket. And felted them down to the wool and felt. I went over all of it with my sewing machine to secure it further in place.

Then I cut out different shapes and "washed them" by soaking them in a bowl of water over night to see if they were going to shrink. I put them in the clothes dryer next. They did not change shape or size very much at all.

Now you see them dry.

And then I sewed one using purple yarn after punching two holes so it looked like a big

button between the heart squares.

I know from my six year old grand children that when they were babies

they liked bright colors and they liked things they could grab on to. These soft buttons will serve

this purpose and will be perfect so the new baby can lay and sit on them comfortably!

I love how the colors all come together!

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For anyone interested to know more about the female Torah scribe that I wrote about yesterday can scroll own to the middle of that post and find a link to a story about her and what she is doing at the Jewish Contemporary Museum in SF.

You might also enjoy reading this article about other female Torah scribes. ******************