Collecting sewing buttons is a very interesting hobby especially if you are one of those people who love to sew. As you may already know, using decorative sewing buttons on your blouse or dress would make your clothes more attractive. An otherwise plain blouse or dress becomes instantly stunning if you use the right decorative sewing buttons.

Decorative sewing buttons are becoming a bit expensive. Depending on the materials used in the buttons, a set of decorative buttons could set you back a couple of dollars each, but are still much cheaper than buying new clothes! If you want to save on cost and at the same time collect some remarkable assortment of sewing buttons, you should learn to salvage sewing buttons from your clothes. Removing buttons from your clothes before you discard them is one of the best ways to collect lovely decorative sewing buttons, which you can latter on recycle and use to make a fabulous blouse or a dress.

Storing Sewing Buttons

If you want to collect sewing buttons, you should find a safe place to keep your collection. Get a box and label it properly then buy some zip on plastic bags where you can store the buttons according to its kind or design. The good thing about classifying to buttons according to a certain criteria before strong them is that you will be able to find a set of matching sewing buttons fast when you need them.

Do not dump everything into the box and rummage through every time you need something. Besides, if you have some delicate buttons, some hard objects might scratch them if you put them into the salvage box with rest of the other buttons that you find.

If you have friends and family members who do not really care about sewing, you can ask them to add to your collection whatever sewing buttons they may be able to salvage from their clothes. Since these people would not really be able to use most of these buttons because they do not make their own clothes, most of them would be happy to donate buttons to your collection so do not hesitate to ask them.

To augment your collection of sewing buttons, you should also buy some buttons once in a while. If you happen to be traveling in some parts of the country where you find some really interesting buttons, buy them and store them for future use. One of these days, you might find these buttons very useful when you are making some dresses or blouses or just as souvenirs in your collection.