Yesterday I went to the post box to discover a wonderful surprise as a parcel was waiting for me. A month or so ago I received an email from Robin Wilkinson saying she had some buttons to send me a gift that she would like to pop in the mail.

I returned her email, gave her my address and thanked her but to be honest did not think too much more about it as people do sometimes write and although they mean to get what ever it is in the mail, life gets in the way and what ever it is does not make it to mail box. They mean to send it but it never arrives. So I had forgotten about it totally. So imagine my surprise when I opened these.

These buttons are from Robin’s grandmothers button box who was born in the central United States in 1891, and moved to Texas just after the turn of the 19th century. Robin said she was thrifty and like many people of that time, she made quilts out of worn clothing and saved the button for future use. She died in the late 1980s

These are some of those buttons. A big public thank you to Robin it this is a thoughtful thing to do and since they have such an interesting story they are definitely valued and will be used in my crazy quilting work.