Stitch & Ledger

A small-tailor notebook: pattern drafts, fabric notes, mending arithmetic

The Button Jar Problem

February 11, 2026 · Stitch & Ledger

Every maker keeps a jar of odds and ends inherited from someone else's projects. Every project I start is half jar, half plan.

The discipline is not throwing the jar out. The discipline is not reaching into it when the pattern calls for three matched buttons.

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