Handmade Beauty

I can't recall the last giveaway I entered, but ages have passed.  I'm one of many happy readers of Ginny's blog, though, and when I saw a giveaway for buttons and a shawl pin, I entered on a whim, thinking of Millie and knowing that she would put handmade buttons to good use in the unlikely chance that my name was picked.  Plus, a handmade, mahogany turtle pin, rich and smooth and dark?  That's enough to draw just about anybody in.

Unlikely as it was, we won, and then spent a long time bumping our heads together over the computer screen, admiring all the woodcraft from Wooly Moss Roots.  We had the pleasure of picking out a set of buttons and a shawl pin from among the gorgeous selections, and Taryn was kind enough to send a beautiful tree button for Millie, to boot!  Millie's saving her tree button for a special project, but she used the first button of the sassafrass set on this hat for Zeke (the Aviatrix Hat by Justine Turner).

She plans to re-knit the strap before fall, but Zeke would be happy with it at any length.

 The hat was supposed to be for this scene-stealer, but his head, large as it is, was not quite large enough.  I think a matching hat is in order...or more than one.  We still have 8 sassafrass buttons left!