Yesterday we went button shopping for the Phildar Hooded Jacket, the Jacket with Moss Stitch Bands and the Jo Sharp Silk Road DK Tweed, which I am thinking will be a top down all in one piece cardi for Isabelle. Isabelle LOVED the button shop, and so did I, there was so much for her to look at but she couldn’t really cause any damage to anything. She was happy and distracted for ages so I got to have a pretty good look around, reasonably stress free.

Unfortunately I didn’t find any buttons I liked for ANY of those projects. My mother has had some femo buttons sitting around in her cupboards since I was a little kid that I asked her about for the baby hoody. She got them out when we were last in Adelaide and they were just as perfect as I had remembered. Sadly there were only three of them (I need four) and I think I am going to have trouble finding anything else I like as much. As for the two cardi’s for Isabelle I was so dis-heartened by the button situation for those projects I left the shop seriously questioning my ability to choose yarn.