To sew buttonholes by hand, start by measuring and marking your buttonhole carefully. Next, snip or cut the opening. Then, bring a threaded needle up from the back side of the material, loop the thread through the buttonhole and back up through the material. Pass the needle through the formed loop and pull it snug.
If you are sewing a buttonhole manually, all you need is a standard zig zag foot, which is most likely the one that you use for most everything on your machine. It’s much faster and easier, however, to sew a buttonhole with a buttonhole foot on a sewing machine that can sew 4-step or 1-step buttonholes.
What is a hand-worked buttonhole? … Just like with a machine-sewn buttonhole, first you mark where you want the opening to be. Instead of sewing first and cutting second, reverse the order. Cut the opening first, then the threads are sewn over the raw edge of the fabric, wrapping the fabric with the thread.
Machined stitching
A machine-made buttonhole is usually sewn with two parallel rows of machine sewing in a narrow zig-zag stitch, with the ends finished in a bar tack created using a broader zig-zag stitch.
Modern models of sewing machines can sew buttonholes automatic. So this post will be helpful more for owner new models of sewing machines. If you want learn how to sew four-step buttonholes or how to sew on buttons with sewing machine too, you need to read another tutorials on my site.
If the buttonhole foot is not moving and is stuck in one place try to see if your sewing machine can sew on the same fabric normal narrow and short zigzag stitches with a regular presser foot. A buttonhole stitch is just a special type of zig zag stitching with more narrow zigzag width and a very short stitch length.
Know Your Basic Buttonholes
It’s a standard buttonhole for garments, and the one you would be most likely to use in home décor projects. You can also make this style of buttonhole on even the most of basic sewing machines.
A buttonhole, sometimes called a boutonnière, is a little flower worn in the lapel of a suit. They’re normally worn by the groom, ushers, fathers, stepfathers and any other male members of the couple’s immediate family.
Blanket Stitch: (Also known as open buttonhole stitch.) Blanket stitch is worked in the same way as buttonhole stitch… The only difference between them lies in the spacing of the stitches. Blanket stitch is used as an edging stitch for appliqué and as a surface stitch.