Continuing the discussion from What item do you wish you had kept? I bought a pack of these buttons and just sewed on my first ever button - did I do a good job? 
They are my favourite hiking trousers and you can’t buy them anymore, so I wasn’t going to throw them out if I could avoid it! 
It looks good but I think the test will be how long it stays on. 
I was going to say it looks on the button but thought it better to button my lip.
In case it falls off again, these are still available…
If push comes to shove … velcro would do it.
On a kinda related theme, I’ve started replacing shoe laces with elastic laces. Whoever invented those is a genius!
funnily enough and tenuously related, I have just discovered the joys of an extendable hose pipe. It’s green and goes firm when full of water. Then springs back to a small wrinkly package when spent.
On the topic of Azz’s button, I would like to express my admiration for his haberdashery project.
Azz I would get serious with sewing that on.
Made me think of something other than gardening.
Certainly does not look like it will fall off soon. 
I’ve got a couple of those and they’re great, apart from when the tap attachments develop a leak. But, for the price and convenience, can’t really fault them.
I love watching it move across the garden after you turn the water off. It’s very spooky. The neighbours gave me the idea of getting one. I remember hearing a creepy noise and wondering whether it was an animal, but it was their retractable hose slowly inching back home.
looks like a whole bobbin’s worth of thread. No way is that button getting away again!
The one I use which extends across my whole garden….when I’m around 2/3 through watering with just a few baskets and small pots to go, I turn the tap off and use the residual water to finish off, thus getting pulled back to “base”as the hose shrinks.
I use the residual to rinse and fill the pets’ outside water bowl
Nothing changes does it , hopes are always dashed… but they do say as we age that the mind is willing but the flesh is weak.
Speak for yourself missus, ever the optimist me! 
An excellent demo of button sewing there. Good and strong. A skill that goes along with darning holes in the heels of woolly socks.
nice one Azz, what your chip butties like?
