How to Make Beautiful Buttons

Make buttons out of fabric, clay, beads and more! There are 25 designs to make with easy-to-follow instructions and step-by-step photographs accompanying every project. Buttons are not only practical additions to bags, jackets and other garments but they also make great fashion accessories all on their own. Starting with a detailed explanation for making each button, the projects span an incredible array of crafts including crochet, embroidery, knotting, felt and paint for embellishing your handmade beautiful buttons.

Beate Schmitz is an avid seamstress who is also a crocheter, designer, accomplished illustrator, writer and teacher. In the past, Beate has worked for publishers such as the Oz/Christopherus Group and is now a resident seamstress and teacher at the ‘Sewing Room’; a workshop which teaches the basics of sewing to amateur and aspiring designers based in Freiburg, Germany.