DIY Birch burl toggle button.

[CommonZense]

My wife is crocheting a bag for our 5y old. Looking for a button I thought of contributing to her project by making one myself. Had a small piece of birch burl fling around the house for a while, left over from a vacuum pump experiment on stabilising wood, not exactly knowing what to do with it?

After splitting the piece in two I have been shaping the button roughly by rasping it and then fine tuned it with sand paper. Drilled a hole in it and finished the button with some boiled linseed oil for contrast.

Tadaaa...

Small chance that my son will not like it, but if so I am going to use it on a lanyard or on the cord of a stuff pack which I recently sewed.

Rgds,
Bas

 

[Baelfore]

That's really cool and a tidy job, im' sure he'll love it!

Well done.

Ste

 

[Fraxinus]

The size of the item belies the effort that went into it, great use of an offcut too.

Rob

 

[Macaroon]

Very nice work, that's a lovely thing................

 

[CommonZense]

Thanks all. And he loves it.
So next one will be for his sister... on a necklace

 

[Nativewood]

Great stuff, I love it!

 

[Harvestman]

Very nice indeed. Small stuff like this is often tricky to do. Good work.

 

[Monikieman]

Very nice indeed for such a small thing. Greta idea for off cuts.