Buttons

I promised to tell the story of the buttons that I’m going to use for my sweater-in-progress.

Here’s the sweater:

I have the body done, and I’m partly done with the first sleeve.

Here are the buttons.

And here is the sweater that they formerly belonged to.

It was never a flattering sweater. NEVER. And now that I’m 60 pounds lighter, it’s just plain ridiculous. So I cut the buttons off. I also deconstructed the sweater, and now I have close to 2000 yards of Black Water Abbey Irish wool yarn to use for something that I’ll actually wear.

Those buttons were designed by a goldsmith especially for that pattern. They are silver, with real garnets, and probably cost more than the wool for the sweater. So they deserve to be used for something nice.