{"id":1263,"date":"2013-07-04T21:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2013-07-04T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T20:29:03","slug":"button-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/button-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Button Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1265\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4735.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1265\" alt=\" cut up and ready for use\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4735.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4735.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4735-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">cut up and ready for use<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So, having cut up all my charity shop shirts I have a satisfactory pile of checked fabrics which make the beginnings of a potential new plaid quilt. I think I need some more greens and also some more deep saturated colours. I\u2019m going to keep collecting till I have a mix I like, and then start cutting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1269\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4806.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1269\" alt=\"mostly shirt buttons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4806-300x232.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4806-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4806.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mostly shirt buttons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One secondary benefit of all those shirts is a healthy supply of shirt buttons to add to my button jar. Pictured are my shirt buttons and a selection of buttons which were orphaned and hanging about the house in drawers and on surfaces waiting to be re-homed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4804.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1267\" alt=\"1-IMG_4804\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4804-300x219.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4804-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4804.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBeing a practical person, when I come home from a shopping trip with a new garment I always cut off the little plastic bag with the spare buttons in and put them carefully aside in case I ever lose a button\u2026 but I\u2019m also a great believer of that old adage \u201ca stitch in time saves nine\u201d or in this case \u201ca stitch in time saves having to replace a button\u201d so if I see a loose button I re-stitch it, consequently I rarely lose my buttons. Those many little plastic bags containing buttons remain long after the garment they came with has long since departed my wardrobe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1266\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4799.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1266\" alt=\"button jar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4799-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4799-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4799.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">button jar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These buttons in bags have mostly gravitated to my button jar, but they do not have much to recommend aesthetically, in fact as a button jar mine was hardly a thing of beauty. Plastic has its place and I would not be without it, but it is not pleasing to the eye.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1268\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4805.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1268\" alt=\"no more plastic bags\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4805-296x300.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4805-296x300.jpg 296w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4805.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">no more plastic bags<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Taking as my guide William Morris, who said \u201cHave nothing in your house which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful\u201d I want my button jar to be both useful and beautiful. I have ejected all the plastic and added the shirt buttons. It is only a small jar, and not very full but time will take care of that, grandma\u2019s always have the most well stocked button collections and I have a few years to go yet before I will qualify, age wise. I wonder how many plaid shirt quilts I would have to make to fill the jar? But then if I use the buttons to tie the quilt I might end up buying buttons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1264\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1264\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1264\" alt=\"That's better.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4808-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4808-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1-IMG_4808.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That&#8217;s better.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as a button jar mine was hardly a thing of beauty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,3],"tags":[391,387,358,369,384,392,383,382,381,386,972,385,388,389,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}