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 It all started with a set of buttons that Jeff  made for fun. With the attention they received, he made another set. Then he had requests for more. The requests kept coming and he kept making them, and that’s how the button-making began. Jeff & Taryn never set out to start a button business… rather it found them, and now it feels like the most natural fit in the world.

Jeff became a woodworker because it was the material he happened to have on hand. He picked up some wood one day, started playing around, and it took off from there. Now he makes buttons, wooden earrings and pendants, shawl pins (due to requests from our knitting customers), occasional signs, and other custom pieces.

Since going to more fiber festivals over the years they’ve focused more on buttons. To make their handmade buttons, Taryn helps with marking buttonholes and drilling buttons, but when it comes to the woodworking magic-sanding and polishing (a long process with spectacular results!)- that’s all Jeff.

In the beginning, they weren’t sure if anyone would want to spend the money to buy high-quality handmade buttons. Over time, though, many knitters told Jeff & Taryn that after they put so much time and energy into their special creations, they want to skip the typical plastic buttons and instead choose unique buttons made with the same love and care that went into the making of their own projects. And, unlike plastic buttons, these wooden buttons, and the cards they come on, are biodegradable.