Buttons & Buttonholes: How to Sew and Place Buttonholes & Use the Button Foot | STITCH LAB Ep. 4

Welcome to Stitch Lab, episode 4, for all things buttons and buttonholes! Buttonholes can be intimidating to sewists of all skill levels. Today, we’re sharing tools and tips to make this process less scary. Have you made friends with your buttonhole foot yet? What about your button foot, for sewing buttons on by machine? If not, join us for a lively discussion, words of wisdom, and fun experiments with special guest, Norris Danta Ford. We’ll discuss button selection (we decided this might be the hardest part!) and how to use a favorite shirt as a template for buttonhole placement. Then it’s on to the experiments: first we’ll break down the buttonhole foot process, then find out if it’s faster to sew a button on by hand or by machine with a friendly sew-off, and more.

Topics we’ll cover:
0:00 Intro to buttons and buttonholes
3:14 Button selection
3:43 Buttonhole tools
8:30 Buttonhole placement
14:20 Stitching buttonholes with the buttonhole foot
16:02 Marking button placement
16:50 Sewing on buttons with the button foot

This episode features very special guest, Norris Danta Ford (https://norrisdantaford.com/).

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