Hats off for Buttons Galore!
Upcycle a Hat for a Spring
Garden Party or Wedding, Plus Two Cute Headbands
Welcome to the Designer
Crafts Connection (DCC) Designer Challenge. This month’s challenge product is
from Buttons Galore, and believe me, they definitely have buttons galore! I
received an assortment in different sizes, colors and shapes, plus some
gorgeous goodies from one of their Trim Collage Kits. The colors were so spring-like, and the styles blended
beautifully.
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| Buttons Galore prizes! |
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providing prizes, one for a reader (just go to the Buttons Galore website (http://wp.me/p2hPby-1Du, and leave a comment and
your favorite project from the blog hop before March 17) in a random drawing,
and one for a participating designer, to be selected by the fine folks at
Buttons Galore.
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This inexpensive hat (less
than five bucks at a discount store) is pretty as-is, but I like dressing it up
with a pretty hatband for a spring event. Buttons were just the ticket. I began
by measuring the diameter of the hat crown, then added about 36” to that
measurement to determine the length of the green grosgrain ribbon (Offray).
Beginning in the center of the ribbon, I simply attached the large buttons with
needle and blue thread, stitching the green, yellow, blue and periwinkle
buttons 2 ½” apart. I then took the tiny flower buttons, removed the shank and
attached them between the large buttons with Beacon FabriTac. After that it was
just a matter of tying it around the hat crown and trimming the streamers to the
lengths I wanted.
The headbands were just as
simple.
I used the Buttons Galore
Dotted Buttons on the black stretchy headband, stitching them so that the sides were
touching, to make them about an inch apart when the band was stretched.
I added a couple of inches
of ribbon on either side of the gathered ribbon button (from the Buttons Galore
Oceanic Trim Collage Kit), trimmed them to fish tails and stitched them onto
the blue stretchy headband.
The entire project – a hat
and two headbands– was completed in less than an hour from conception to
photography. It doesn’t get much quicker than that.
Now I’m off to a party, but
sad to say, it isn’t a Spring garden party ,so I can’t wear my classy hat. I
can, however, wear the dotted button headband!
I received product from Buttons Galore and Beacon Adhesives for this project.
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