Button Floozies

Hi there~ I have been knitting so much -and crocheting too-an awful lot of gifts for the Holidays!! I made up these 2 earwarmers~ ( a free pattern you can find on ravelry ) I was looking for the perfect button to add to these, when I remembered some buttons I won from fellow Button Floozie, McAnaraks...( You can see that post here , and here's another post about their buttons here ). I thought I would need to find a button with a shank for the loop to fit securely around, and these didn't have one... but I thought they were too perfect for the headbands, so when I went to stitch them on, I just when up through the underside of the headband with the yarn, through the first and second hole, then wrapped the yarn around those 2 threads underneath the buttons, to make the buttons sit higher and make a sort of shank, and then took the yarn back to the underside of the headband and wove in the ends~Perfect!

Greetings fellow Button Floozies, thank you all for your lovely comments about Buttons by McAnaraks and congratulations to Andrea Creates the winner of the 900 blog followers giveaway. For the rest of this month, until March 31 2012 we will give a 20% discount to anyone who claims "I am a Button Floozie" when they order from our website www.mcanaraks.com or our Etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/ButtonsByMcAnaraks We will give you a refund by Paypal after purchase.The 20% discount applies to the cost of the buttons, but not the postage costs. If you would like to find out about future giveaways, special offers and news about Buttons by McAnaraks please visit our Facebook page and "like" us http://www.facebook.com/ButtonsbyMcAnaraks Happy buttoning, Floozies! Fran from Buttons by McAnaraks

I'm Fran from the Highlands of Scotland, and I love buttons! I have been making clothes for over 20 years and have collected buttons from all over the world to use on my work. I have spent many happy holidays hunting down button shops, or trawling street markets for buttons, old and new. I used to make buttons out of polymer clay, but was never happy with the results, they always looked a bit wonky. I suppose thay had a certain charm, but it was not worth the blistered palms they caused. I now make buttons out of resin, which I absolutely love doing and I am happy with the results. The photos are of my handmade buttons. This is my first foray into the blogosphere, couldn't really see the attraction, until I found "Button Floozies" and thought, "ah, now i see the point!" I look forward to keeping up with my fellow button enthusiasts posts, and hope that you will be interested to see mine.