Handmade Wooden Buttons Accent Jalie’s Dolman

My sister made and gifted me 3 dozen cards of handmade wooden buttons last year.  

Each card was carefully labeled and the buttons are sewn inside.

There were 2 obstacles that held me back from using them;  #1, the garment had to be “special”, and #2, the buttons are not machine wash and dryable.  (All my clothes get machine washed and dried.)

THEN, I had a night-time brainwave.  Cuff links came to mind, and here’s what I came up with!  (Close-up view.)

The wooden button is under the hair pic and a smaller plastic button is on top, 8 wraps of a double strand of strong polyester thread with the hair pic in-between left a space between the buttons.  It was fiddly, but it DID work. 

Even easier was 8 strands of the same thread, threaded onto a needle with the tails tied into a square knot and a dab of fabric glue.  After the glue dried,  I trimmed the tails of thread close to the knot.  

I made 6 of these, then sewed buttonholes to fit the smaller button.  The small button goes through the buttonhole, and the wooden button sits on top!  NOW I can easily remove the wooden buttons for laundry.

I’ve used this Jalie Dolman #3352 pattern many, many times. 

I’ll write more about my modification (hack) in another post. 

Here’s a post about making one entirely on a serger in 1 hour or less.