Finding closure

I can't decide if I like this mother of pearl closure. What do you think, ladies and punk?

It the bag it was pretty enough, but I really don't like how the "buttonhole" part tugs at the fabric.

Flower buttons

My knitting budget was already spent when I found Jen's favourite buttons in a smaller size. But I think I will have to go back for them, imagine how pretty they will be down the back of a spencer dress in spring colours?

Temptation

I did get the time to knit last night, but the deadline for the mittens seemed so far away I was tempted into working on the pattern for something else: A luxurious children's jacket for the holiday season, knit in merino and silk, with velvet edgings and swarovski cufflinks.

Sadly, I named this blog SMALL things knit, or I would have been tempted even further and made one for myself as well. Foolishly expensive as it might be.

Buttons

This picture is from last years preparations for Jennys daycare, she is choosing buttons for a now outgrown romper. Today she has her first day back after summer break, and I have just placed her new clothes in her new "big girl" drawer. No more easy grown-up access to diapers, but a drawer she can reach herself when putting away her jeans before napping. And this year's knitwear has big, round, plastic buttons for toddler fingers.

Has she already outgrown the cute porcelain flowers and funny animal shaped buttons? No way! As soon as she can handle them, they are back on.