In the department of sewing accessories are always a lot of buttons, there are a variety of options. Some like it, others do not. They are created by designers. You can feel like a designer, trying to beat someone else's success.
Content
- This material is always at hand
- The basis of the buttons - the first step
- Tools for work
- Secret of success
This material is always at hand
Wood - the stuff that is always at hand in a small amount. Since it is easy to operate, do not need to exert much effort to make a very beautiful, stylish buttons. Availability, cost, level of comfort in handling forced to choose his name.
The basis of the buttons - the first step
With the help of a fine-toothed saw blade selected branch should be cut into pieces to make the workpiece. Large buttons or medium easier to make than small.
The thickness of the workpieces must be such as to be able to apply thread pattern, a pattern in the future, i.e., more than the desired one.
Tools for work
Of the tools you will need:
- knife;
- awl;
- Gypsy needle;
- nail;
- hammer;
- sandpaper.
Bark from cut blanks must be removed, and the lower part of the side align the sandpaper. The front should be applied to the layout - to identify places for holes through which in the future will be put thread, as well as the outline of the picture. The holes for the threads can be done with a nail and a hammer, or by using an awl - if there is a risk of cracks in the workpiece.
Pattern created using a knife, awl, needles. It is painstaking work, but it will bring a lot of positive emotions.
Secret of success
should be taken into account when choosing the design:
- straight lines easier to cut than rounded;
- effectively will look through the slot;
- large items easier to cut wood, but if you do not balance their small details, the button will look rough, the result may not like it;
- painting is an alternative additional method of decorating;
- in the case of buttons inlay is allowed only when there is water-resistant adhesive, because clothes need to be washed.
The finished product efficiently cover the waterproof varnish for wood or any other water-resistant coating. They last longer because of this. The mode buttons, in which no hiding natural structure of a natural pattern. But this limits the imagination. It should make them colorful, perhaps.
Sometimes the buttons to be produced for a particular thing, in another case, only to spend free time usefully. They are needed in the manufacture of soft toys, clothes for dolls when creating a painting on the wall of unusual materials and other things.
From the buttons, you can make a beautiful and eccentric gauze, especially if they are cut from the accident found his own branch. Risk, to start the production - a good idea.
