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Buttons&YarnOHMY started back in 2010 when my husband
and I first moved to Tennessee and I found myself knitting again. A lot. It was
a great way to relieve stress and in my free time I started experimenting with
different patterns and textures.
I find passion in creating something not only unique but
useful from something as simple as yarn.
Since I was young my grandmother let me play with buttons,
I’d sort them thousands of different ways and imagine the possibilities.
Buttons are cool, and so unique so now I’m a collector and add a button ... or
a dozen buttons to different projects. It's a little piece of me with every item.
Buttons&YarnOHMY has grown amazingly in just two short
years. I'm constantly creating new and different things. I'm slowly in the
process of making all of my products from local hand-spun/hand-dyed yarns.
My Favorite Items:
I found this yarn at a local shop, A Likely Yarn. It was
absolutely perfect, warm, soft and just a little bulky. This is the third cowl
I’ve made out of this wool. The first two were gifts for family members and I
almost couldn’t part with this one. I
love oversized items for myself as far as fashion and style goes so I enjoy
making items that I would personally wear.
I’m originally from northern Maine, and am used to long cold
winters, but I hate hates. I figure I can’t be the only one so last winter I
was playing with some new cowl patterns and decided to make the biggest cowl I
could and have it be a hooded cowl. My only regret is that I didn’t write down
the pattern I used! And can’t for the life of me remember how I made this, I’ve
tried recreating it a number of times but never could, so this one is a
personal favorite and truly one of a kind.
Having a deep rooted obsession with coffee I have an
extensive collection of coffee mugs, and for some reason they are never
insulated enough and to solve this problem, much to my husband’s dismay, I was
using his travel mugs to drink my scalding hot coffee and sometimes tea. One
night, after burning my hand for the thousandth time on a coffee mug my husband
looked at me and jokingly said “why don’t you just knit something to go around
it”. Even though he was joking I thought this was genius and I know I’m not the
first person to ever think of this but I strive to make every one of my cozies
unique, by either the color combination of yarn, the buttons, or the patterns I
do.
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1 comment:
Lovely, interesting article Buttons - I love to hear how people get to where they are, their loves and passions and their hopes - thank you for sharing with us :)
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