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How to Make Pipe-Cleaner Button Displays

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leethal Lee Meredith, contributor
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I made this sculpture to look like a tree with buttony leaves and button flowers around the base.
These are the only two materials youll need for this simple project with infinite creative possibility.
Buttons stay on pipe cleaners where you want them, making these two objects perfect for each other!
I made this sculpture to look like a tree with buttony leaves and button flowers around the base.

I made this sculpture to look like a tree with buttony leaves and button flowers around the base.

Photo: Lee Meredith
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Then I made a nonrepresentational sculpture, twisting the pipe cleaners around my finger to make swirls...


 This one is simple, but I think it looks cool and fun.

When stringing buttons onto the swirls, they can get a little unswirled, so after the buttons are all on, you can retwist them.


 Abstract swirling buttony goodness!

And one last crazy one... This was actually my first try at the idea, to test it out. Some loops make up the base, with long strands sticking up.


 Pipe-cleaner sculpting is so much fun!

As for the purpose of this project (beyond the joy of crafting), I plan to have my little sculptures on the desk in my studio and whenever I need a button for a project, there they are on display! I only used buttons for the sculptures that don't have any mates, all loners, so I can just grab one at a time as needed. And when I get new bags of buttons and I sort out the singles, I can add them to the blank spots, so the sculptures are forever changing!

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Comments (2)

nomadcraftsetc writes: Wow! How extreme! Love it! I think we are going to go and get a bunch of pipecleaners and have fun! Thanks for the photos!


Posted: 10:19 pm on March 29th
croqzine writes: How fun! Looks like a nice kind of therapeutic project... like you said, to bring out your inner-child-crafter. Maybe it would be a great antidote for if you had a creative block!
Posted: 11:00 am on March 28th
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