I told you yesterday that I would tell you about my button-sorting yesterday.

I told you I bought some buttons at the new yarn shop yesterday. They each came in little plastic bags, which is good, and all, but those take up a lot more room in a button bin than loose buttons.

(And, yes, my button bin is a disposable leftover-food container. You got a problem with that?)

As we all know, loose buttons are fun to play with, but finding all the matching buttons can be, shall we say, tedious. So, an idea came to me.

I finally came up with a use for that evil Zephyr yarn that’s been lurking in my stash for going-on five years now.

I went through ALL my buttons and strung all the matching buttons together. I didn’t want to use sewing thread because I thought it wouldn’t be strong enough, but I needed a yarn that would be thin enough to fit through the button holes … not to mention easy enough to thread on a needle slim enough to fit. Lace yarn seemed perfect.

Each group is threaded on doubled-yarn. I cut a length of yarn, folded it in half, and threaded it onto the needle at the fold. Then I threaded each button onto the needle, and once they were all there, tucked the tip of the needle through the loop at the far end, and then tied a knot.

When put back in the button bin, sure they all look just as jumbled as before, but I can easily pull out each group of buttons. SO much easier.

Of course, it’s just fun playing with them, too. It’s like I suddenly have dozens of new (tiny) bracelets to wear.

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