While my daughter and I were cutting up the pajamas for my friend’s quilt, I had a “shazam” moment:  all of the garments had buttons on them, and I didn’t want them to go to waste.

So, I had my daughter cut all of the buttons off of the jammies and we put them in a button holder I had been graciously given at the quilt retreat earlier this year:

Before we put the buttons in, I added a note in the bottom of the little container:

I thought this was a wonderful little keepsake for our friend, something to keep in a special place with all of the buttons from her dearly departed mom’s pajamas during her last years that she was alive.