Adventures in Sewing: Boxes and Buttons

I have mentioned before that my Grandma Nona was an amazing seamstress. I had mentioned {HERE} that she would make a special dress for me each year for my birthday when I was growing up. I found a picture of one of the dresses the other day was doing some cleaning and organizing. Here is me with my doll (her name was Lindsey) in our matching dresses made special for us by my Grandma Nona.

I'm pretty sure she made us matching hair bows as well! 

Anyway, I wanted to share with you something else I found when I was cleaning and organizing. I have been working on using and organizing some of the sewing supplies that I inharited when my Grandma passed away. I have been having a blast making projects for me like my Jewelry Travel Pouch, and projects for other people like the Bell Dress for Olivia and the dress for Kate Mae, all using the supplies from my Grandma's sewing stash. Some of the boxes contain items that I assume are for some type of sewing project, but I have no clue what they are for! 

Take this box for example:

Inside were a collection of 4 different pieces...

There were tons of these

And tons of these...

And then I saw this round, cardboard pattern. It has the word button on it, and that is when it clicked. These are pieces to make your own covered buttons (well, I think that is what they are anyway!) So I stared messing around with the pieces and here is what I got...

Taadaa! A pretty, covered button! So fun!

I've been thinking of projects I can use these with...

I could use these to make flowers like this

                                                                    Source: tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com via Makenzie on Pinterest

                                 

                                      Or on something like this

                                  

                                                                                             Source: bhg.com via Barb on Pinterest

                    Have you ever used these "make your own covered buttons" for a project? Happy Friday!