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February 2, 2026
Complimentary pin pillow. from contemporary embroidery

 

Who knew my new buttons would match my old pin pillow?

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January 30, 2026
Button making from contemporary embroidery

 




Hand embroidered buttons inspired by this design collection.

Some of these will be used as adornments for embroidered cloth, others will be used in design work. 

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January 4, 2026
three hand made buttons for a seam. from contemporary embroidery

   A very short video for you today.It's not new. It was lost when the 'other place' shut down.Three little hand made buttons for a seam. 

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December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!!! from Crazy Quilter on a Bike!

It's Christmas!!!! While we don't do a lot for Christmas these days because it's just the two of us, we still have traditions! They are just different. Like all of you, I have so many Christmas memories, but one in particular that I'm sure my parents will never forget. 

I was pretty young and was fast asleep in my bed when something woke me up. Likely, my mom was putting out the presents. I sprang from my bed and ran into the living room, shouting, "he's here, he's here!" Yep -- I thought Santa had ...

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September 15, 2025
Couching, No Potatoes from Dueling Threads

It was a productive weekend! I had several projects keyed up for a finish this weekend. A few were gifts, but one was selfishly a project I had been planning to try (just for me) for a while. I tried my hand at couching last year with some limited success with my mini Xmas trees. Couching is a technique where you incorporate decorative threads, cord, or yarn on the surface of a fabric. You stitch it in place with other finer threads. In my case, I feed my yarns in with my longarm when stitching a design. The first time ...

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June 21, 2025
Hand made buttons for a seam. from Karen Ann Ruane

Hand made buttons for a seam.

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June 15, 2025
My button history. from Karen Ann Ruane

hand made buttons

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January 23, 2025
Paper and silk velvet buttons. from Karen Ann Ruane

Paper and silk velvet buttons,a video.

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June 25, 2024
pockets and buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

pockets and embroidered buttons....

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June 4, 2024
auditioning lace and a bowl of buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

auditioning lace a a bowl of buttons

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May 19, 2024
embellishments.... from Karen Ann Ruane

embellishments, buttons, beads,

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May 16, 2024
hand embroidered buttons and beads from Karen Ann Ruane

hand embroidered buttons and beads

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April 8, 2024
Four Windmills, 55 Years from Gefilte Quilt

Ever since moving to Southern California 30 years ago, I have marveled at the region's windmills, especially the miles of them between my Los Angeles home, and the "Road to California" quilt show in Ontario, CA, that I visit annually. They look like this:

Sometimes they spin in unison, sometimes out of sync, but they always make me happy, a majestic miracle of alternative energy. 
In February, when I was playing with a raw-edge fabric-covered-with-tulle technique to make Valentines, I thought of those windmills and decided to make some. I pulled all the pieces from my batik scrap bag ...

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April 2, 2024
embroidery on paper and five buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidery on paper and five buttons

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October 27, 2023
Ribbon, buttons and embroidered snippets. from Karen Ann Ruane

Ribbon, buttons and embroidered snippets.

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July 20, 2023
Button, Button... from From the Strawberry Patch...

... who's got the button? I do!This huge jar of buttons represents three generations of button hoarders keepers collectors! I have inherited the button baskets that belonged to my grandmother as well as my mother; keep in mind that I already had a very healthy-sized, full, button tin of my own! In an effort to tidy up, organize and consolidate, these buttons now all occupy the same space! This

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Button, Button... from From the Strawberry Patch...

... who's got the button? I do!This huge jar of buttons represents three generations of button hoarders keepers collectors! I have inherited the button baskets that belonged to my grandmother as well as my mother; keep in mind that I already had a very healthy-sized, full, button tin of my own! In an effort to tidy up, organize and consolidate, these buttons now all occupy the same space! This

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April 2, 2023
From Apple Core Template to English Paper Pieced Bridal Vase from Gefilte Quilt

I'm been playing around with turning flat quilting templates into 3-D constructions. Here's one of my new experiments

It's 8" tall. I think it's a spinal column vase, and it started with a 2.5" template acquired years ago. 

Longtime quilters recognize this as a classic apple core shape. Google "apple core quilts" you'll find books, patterns and kits to make scrappy quilts with hundreds of pieces this shape. Especially "charm" quilts, with a different fabric for each piece.

The results are definitely charming - but never charming enough for me to want to make one ...

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March 4, 2023
embroidered hexagons and oversized hand wrapped buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

embroidered hexagons and oversized hand wrapped buttons

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February 17, 2023
gingham and buttons from Karen Ann Ruane

hand embroidered buttons and embroidered gingham tokens

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