Vintage Button Bracelet

Who doesn't love vintage button crafts? Make a Vintage Button Bracelet from Candace Jedrowicz from your grandma's collection of old odds and ends. This is trendy and cute.


 

Materials:

• Buttons
• Bead embroidery thread
• Beading needle
• A selection of accent beads
• Elastic ribbon

Instructions:

1. I started with several large and small buttons and paired them up.
   
   
    
2. I began sewing the buttons onto the end of the ribbon, so that I could hide the seam. I spaced the buttons so that the edges touched.
    
3. I sewed the buttons on just like I would if I were sewing them on a shirt, making several passes with the thread.
    
4. Half of the top buttons are two-holed. This is where I used the accent beads - on top of those buttons so the thread would be hidden.
   
   
    
5. I alternated the beaded buttons with with the others.
    
6. I measured the ribbon on my wrist and cut off the excess leaving a tab to overlap for secure sewing.
   
   
    
7. When I sewed the ends of the ribbon together and put the bracelet on and realized that the curve of the ribbon opened spaces between the buttons, so I chose some smaller buttons to fill in.
   
   

For a video tutorial of this project, check out How to Make a Vintage Button Bracelet Video.