Buttn Button Who's Got the Button?

I do!! Now they are also getting organized.

I have kniited a Swiffer cover from a pattern from the book Mason Knitting Outside the Lines by Kay Gardiner and Ann Shayne. Zero Waste Cleaning Set because with all this craziness people are stockpiling their supplies and some store have run out. 

Pattern for Swiffer cover here.

This pattern uses two buttons to close the cover around the mop.  While I was looking for buttons to choose, I decided to organize my collection.

Butoons all layed out

Once I matched everything up, I realized that I needed a way to store them.  The different sets needed to be separated so they wouldn't get mixed up again. I thought of maybe a storage box with adjustable dividers. Unfortunately, with the Coronavirus going around, I didn't want to go shopping so I thought I have around the house.  I finally decided that the simplest thing to do was to copy the original cards that some of my old buttons came on.  I had plenty of cardboard, string and time on my hands.  I read somewhere that "If you don't have money, you need time.  If you don't have time, you need money"

Original Button Cards

First I gathered some cardboard boxes that needed to be recycled. I tried to get some that had white on the inside. I found a couple but not as many as I would have liked.

Had to eat a lot of cookies!!

I then traced the outline from the original cards.

Template for cards

I tried to just put the needle through the card but it wouldn't work. I had to use the seam ripper to poke holes in the cardboard,  Unfortunately, I also poked a hole in my finger.  Fotunately, I had a tetnus shot last summer so all was fine.

Holes go in the card, not fingers

I then just took a need and thread and "sewed" the buttons on the card.  Pretty simple but very time consuming. 

Back of card

After getting a bunch of cards done. I still needed a place to store them.  Somehow I just happen to have a giant jar that used to be filled with cheese puff was available at my home (ahem).

I made a label with some scrapbooking paper and a button with no match. 

Viola!!

Jar ready to use

Oh and here is the Swiffer cover with the two buttons that started this whole mess.