I've decided to make this a three part series. Because this is my blog, and I'll divide if I want to.
It has buttons. These are not just any buttons, these are old buttons. These buttons are probably at least 40-50 years old, and came from my grandmother's large button collection. She had a stainless steel canister with a lid, probably meant to be a cookie jar in the 1950s, and she kept all her buttons in it from her sewing and knitting projects.
As a girl, I loved to sort through it, asking if my grandma recalled where each button came from. (She could tell me things like, "That came off of a coat your grandfather wore," or, "That came on a dress I bought at XYZ department store, and didn't like, so I cut them off and changed the buttons.")
People don't keep button bins anymore. But they should.
Because, who knows? Someday your granddaughter could own a yarn business and would want to knit your great-granddaughter something that will require buttons.
And who knows? Something from your cast-off dress could end up on your descendant's clothing.
Your descendants would likely think that was very cool.
I think I'll start a button bin.
More on this something I knit tomorrow.
In the meantime, can I just say? I really like the colorway Alice when it's all knit up. Alice is even better in the garment than she is in the skein:
(Alice is the blue, pink, yellow, white, and black section in the middle of this shot.)