I finished my Meringue Yoke Cardigan and now I need to put on the buttons. My problem is, what buttons? Buttons are an important choice. I want them to be noticeably gorgeous but not take away from the beauty of the sweater. I want them to stand out, but not too much. Plus they have to fit through the buttonholes.
I went to the store and bought some bone colored interesting rectangularish-ovalish ones that I thought would be pretty on it but two things happened and I decided not to use them. The first being that I lost one, which is not a total tragedy since the sweater doesn't have specific buttonholes (the placket is made of garter stitch with one row of yarn-overs, yes, it's a very wonderfully forgiving sweater to make) and I could probably make do with one less button. But, the second thing that happened was that I looked at the buttons laid out on the sweater and decided I didn't like them. They seemed too big for the sweater and the white did not accentuate the teal like I imagined it would, it simply looked clowny and kind of garish. Sad.
So, I'm back to square one. What buttons? At least I know white-bone colored ones are out, but that leaves me to decide between, wood, metal, horn, plastic, polymer clay (not likely) and the myriad of other materials that people make buttons from. Crap.
1 comment:
Cute sweater. :)
I'm partial to the little metal buttons with swirly designs on them. Although, now that I think of it, I've never used them on anything myself. It sounds like you are just going to have to haul your pretty sweater down to the button store and try out different ones until you find a match. Sometimes these things call for an epic journey!
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