The Button Curtain

Long before (stupid) Pinterest, I was making crap that would have been perfect for (stupid) Pinterest.  My button curtain would be one of them.  I inherited a crap-ton of buttons, I'm going to guess about 8 gallons of them, and found a lot of fun ways to use them.  This is, by far, my favorite.

I used a super long piece of embroidery floss, threaded a needle on each end, and wove buttons and little beads all until I ran out of thread, basically.  I used the beads to keep the buttons from overlapping, but they also help keep it from getting tangled.

I always meant to find a better way to display it, but a hundred years later, and they are still tied individually to binder rings, and clipped onto a tension rod.  It was way too heavy for the tension rod to actually keep it up, so I ended up hanging it on loops made from braided hemp I had hanging around from my hippy days, which were nailed to the studs next to the door.

It is noisy, and heavy, and a magnet for little hands, and I love it.  If you ever find yourself with an insane amount of buttons, I highly recommend making one.  And, if you use a different method of hanging it, let me know.  I might, someday, want to fix it.