2025 in review: August

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2025 has been a fantastic year for trying our hand with traditional techniques, and August was no exception when we experimented with making Dorset buttons.


It was a lot of fun and certainly gave us a new appreciation for the hours of painstaking work that would have gone into this cottage industry. While most of us are novices, Heather B has made some exquisite buttons.


And if that was not enough, show 'n' tell for August was an explosion of colour, texture and skill.





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