Matching Buttons with Fabrics

Matching Buttons with Fabrics - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Buttons are really fun. There are so many different kinds of buttons out there. And again, it depends on what your project is, if it is something that is going to be laundered you are going to want to make sure it is a launderable button. It will often say on the packaging whether it is hand wash only or if it can be put into a machine, or if it is dry clean only. Kids' clothes, that is another thing, there are a lot of novelty buttons out there that are really fun, let them pick it out. You can really go in any direction with buttons. You just want to keep the scale appropriate to your design. You can lay buttons out on your project when you bring it in. That might be something that you wait until you are at that point in making your project, to bring it in to the store and then you can play around with the buttons. You might want to consider weight; if it is a real fine weight fabric, you are not going to want to put a real heavy metal button on that is going to pull the weight down, like on a woman's blouse.