How to make yarn buttons?

I have seen buttons made with a plastic ring, You make a loop and crochet 6-8-10 (?) single crochet in the ring to form a circle, join, chain 1, You then single crochet twice (?) in each stitch, to form a ring. Do this one or more times, depending on the size of your plastic ring, then single crochet over the ring to in-case it for the size button you want. My thought was to add a flower to the button. If you could make a bunch of petals on the second row, doing a sc, 2 double cr, 2 trebal cr, 2 double ,single perhaps, more petals or leaves on the third row, depending on the size of your plastic rings, button holes?

Help, Do I know what I’m talking about?
Using the ‘tail from your make loop’ to sew the ‘button’ to the sweater, saves trying to find a matching button. I need help…

They are called Dorset Buttons.
http://www.homeofthesampler.com/howtos/craftypod.html
http://yarnz4knitters.blogspot.com/2006/03/dorset-buttons.html

from elann site on free pattern

Simply wrap some leftover yarn ( weave through the middle in figure-8’s or crochet around the edge, or any other means of covering that you like) around a few of those white plastic rings that are sometimes used as stitch markers. These are your invisible buttons.

or
http://www.yarncat.com/ButtonFlowerPin.html
http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57693
http://www.headwaterwool.com/WebStore/Catalog/HW/Patterns/CodeOnly/FREE-BUTT-001-C.pdf

Maybe. (I do know what you are talking about, but don’t know any exact instructions to give you for one.) Sorry. I have never tried to make one of the buttons from a plastic ring. You might have trouble adding the petals to that, I don’t know. But you could probably just make a real nice tightly crocheted flower the size you need and call that a button. I made some crocheted buttons for a sweater recently but they were just little bobble shaped buttons. One bit of advice. When I sewed my crocheted buttons on, I put a plastic 4 hole button on the back side of each bobble-button to give it some stability. I think it worked. That might also be the thing to do if you just make a tight crochet flower as a button. You may not need that if you can get the plastic ring-flower button idea to work. Good luck. Sounds like a cute button.

I never did the plastic ring type, either, but I have done what Merigold has done. There’s a pictorial [COLOR=“Blue”][B]here[/B][/COLOR] - it does already kind of look like a flower when you’re done, but maybe not flowery enough?

That’s just the ticket, Thanks. Button hunting can be so frustrating, never the right size or colour. Bless you for this.