When you enjoy sewing and crafting as much as I do, you tend
to collect supplies. Like large amounts
of fabric or vinyl or maybe a big collection of buttons. Now, I have a lot of buttons but I don’t have
nearly as many as I could have. I try to
keep my button collection small because it can get messy. Today I wanted to share with you how to
organize buttons.
Now if you have a crazy amount of buttons, this might not be the method for you. But if you have a smallish collection of buttons like myself, you can totally use this method. And since I don’t have a ton of buttons, I am able to keep them all together in one container. Which is helpful in keeping track of those darn buttons.
How to Organize Buttons
Step 1
Find a cylinder shaped container with a lid. Thinks like oatmeal containers, or the
Pirouette wafer sticks. I had a nice
cardboard container that my new dish soap and hand soap dispensers came in from
Grove Collaborative.
Step 2
Cut a rectangular piece of vinyl that can wrap around the
outside of your cylinder container.
You’ll want it to overlap just slightly.
For my container, I cut one giant piece and than sliced around the lid
since my lid was so tall. If you have a
short lid, head to set 3.
Tip: I actually cut
mine out on my Cricut Maker. Just added
the dimensions and cut it out.
Step 3
Cut out a circle in vinyl that is the same size as the top
of your lid. If you have a short lid,
you can cut your vinyl a bit larger than the top of you lid to cover those
short sides as well.
Step 4
Cut out a fun quote or saying or image to put on the front
of your cylinder. I put “I Like BIG
Buttons”. You can get the cut file in
Cricut Design Space.
Step 5
Fill your container with all your buttons.
Yes, when you use your container you'll have to dump all those buttons out to find anything, but don't you usually have to dump them out anyway to find matching buttons. (Good point, 'em I right?!)
Now you have this handy button container that you can
display in your sewing or crafting room.
Plus, you now know how to organized those buttons fast and where to find them.
