Updating Oversized Sewing Notions

In my last post, I told you about the Quilter's Tea I'm decorating for my little quilt guild.  Well, I've finished the oversized notions.

My friend, Carole, suggested that I add labels to my spools of thread.  I took photos of several different ends of some of the wooden spools that I have.  I printed them out to fit the tops of each of the spools.  I used Mod Podge to attach the labels.  Again, I have a spool of Aurifil thread in the photos for scale.

The three largest spools have lids that come off, so that the spools can be used for storage.  I used the next smaller lid for each spool except for the smallest, where I used a plastic lid (from a jumbo can of Nestle's Quik).  The smaller lids fit inside each canister.

with lids off spools

I spray painted all of the 'buttons', then threaded them.  The small buttons will be attached to ribbon and used as a garland.  The large buttons are chargers.  Again, I have a spool of Aurifil thread in the photos for scale.

I sprayed 2 coats of paint on each button (more for the yellow).  The 2nd coat of paint on the blue charger crinkled on the edges, and looked bad.  Even sanding didn't help.  Since I had lots of extra yarn around, I glued some yarn to the edge of the charger, then spray painted the yarn. I think it gives it a nice texture.

yarn glued to the edges

I don't think you can see the original color of the yarn (NOT blue ;).

I did do some sewing, but I didn't take any photos.