Button Brooches - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

Do you have a button tin? Has it been passed from family member to family member? This is a fun and creative way to use those unused buttons and give them a new life! It is a great way to use buttons to create something new and keep memories of items alive. Within the session, you will make a brooch or a pendant using old buttons and look at how this craft can be extended for other uses.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Demonstrate Practical Assembly Skills: learners will successfully create and complete at least one button brooch using appropriate stitching or adhesive techniques, ensuring structural integrity and durability.

• Achieve Consistent Finishing: learners will produce a brooch with uniform stitching, clean edges, and secure fastenings, following quality standards suitable for retail or gifting.

• Share stories: learners will share stories and memories of buttons.

• Evaluate Environmental Impact: learners will assess the environmental benefits of using recycled materials versus new materials in handmade crafts.

Please bring with you to the course:-

• Plastic canvas (available in several shapes)

• Buttons

• Needle

• Tutor will bring some wool scraps to be used in the class

• Small kits (online - Kit - Button Heart Brooch Kit , Each Kit Has a Different Mix of Buttons - Etsy UK

• A drink, notepad and pen