SINGER 67110 Button & Carpet Sewing Thread, 50-Yards, Black, 3.80 x 1.50 x 2.50 inches

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button, usually disklike piece of solid material having holes or a shank through which it is sewed to one side of an article of clothing and used to fasten or close the garment by passing through a loop or hole in the other side. Purely decorative, nonutilitarian buttons are also frequently used on clothing. You can also make your own gimp substitute by making a four-cord gimp. To do so, take a length of buttonhole twist or topstitching thread that’s about 20 times as long as your finished buttonhole length. Fold it in half, and twist it as tightly as you can. Once you can’t twist it anymore before it bunches up, fold it in half again and let the two halves twist up. Give the loose ends a knot, run it through beeswax, and press it with a hot iron. Here’s a video tutorial showing you how it’s done. Collect all your materials. Tufting is usually one of the final steps in a cushion project. For our tutorial, we simply created some tiny sample shapes that would allow you to best see the technique in the photos.

Take a length of all-purpose polyester or cotton thread that is about 18” (45 cm) long. Run it through some beeswax, and either press it with a hot dry iron or melt the wax on the thread using the heat of your hands. Thread it through a small, sharp needle like a size 8 Sharps. Lower quality threads have the tendency to shed, leaving fluff in your sewing machine that needs to be cleaned more frequently. They’re more prone to breakage, and may snag or split in your needle. Button tufting follows the same basic process as stitch tufting, but the thread is covered on one or both sides with buttons — usually covered buttons in fabric that matches or coordinates with the base fabric. As rayon is so silky, it has a tendency to unwind from the spool. Use a thread net to prevent it from unspooling prematurely, especially if your thread is on a cone instead of a spool. To sew a shank button on to a garment, start as before with 18 to 24 inches of thread, doubled and knotted. You can use less thread overall with a shank button if you wish though, as you won’t have to wrap the thread around itself to create the shank.

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You will likely be working on at least two layers of fabric as you’re sewing the buttonhole. To prevent the layers from shifting, you can also do some basting stitches by hand around the area where the buttonhole will go. I’d recommend doing this before cutting the fabric open, so that the cut goes through the same spot in all the layers involved.

This thread isn’t designed to be permanent. It shouldn’t be used for construction, as it’s designed to break easily to make removing basting stitches more efficient. For rounded-end buttonholes, start rounding off the short ends as you approach them. You can make your stitches closer together to get a better rounded shape here. I would highly recommend getting used to using a thimble when you’re hand sewing, especially on long repetitive hand sewing tasks like sewing buttonholes on a few layers of fabric. I have oddly shaped ring fingers and I have yet to find the perfect thimble for them, so this is a do as I say not as I do situation. If you’re using a thin button, simply put the edge of the button so that it touches the first mark you’ve made. Make a second mark on the other edge of the button, about 2 mm (less than ⅛”) away from the button.

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Go into your fabric about 1” (2.5 cm) away from the short, square end of your buttonhole. Come up through the buttonhole, keeping a tail that’s about 2” (5 cm). As with most sewing tasks, good preparation really matters for achieving good results when you’re hand sewing buttonholes. Here I’ll cover how to mark your fabric, how to cut it open, and a couple of ways you can prepare the area before you start working your buttonhole stitches. Marking & drawing guidelines Most commonly used in machine embroidery, Rayon thread is one of the most lustrous, vibrantly colored options available for embellishing your projects. Photo credit: Sara Maker Photo credit: Kat Waters When should I use it? This thread has a cotton sheath, so be sure to clean the dust out of your machine after your project is finished. You want your mark to be a small “X” shape. The mark should be easily visible, but you are working on the right side of your fabric and the marks may not be completely covered by the stitching. Make sure you select a fabric pen or pencil that will easily wipe away or will vanish with exposure to the air.