How to make a Buttonhole by Hand
The hand-sewn buttonholes on coats and jackets are not only very durable, but also give the garment a unique look. Making a Buttonhole by Hand is one of the top tailoring skill, and raven not all professional tailors can make buttonhole with high quality and beauty.
But if you try to handmade buttonhole once, you’ll fall in love of this. This is a very creative and interesting process, witch transform your garment in real masterpiece! Regular practice and desire to know, will help you to became a master of this technic. How to make a buttonhole by hand stitches? Read in this post.
To contents ▴Tips for a handmade buttonhole
For making a good buttonhole use a simple tips:
1. Use the special buttonhole stitches and keep stitches even and close together (pic. 1).
2. For raised edge lay a piece of fine cord or twisted threads (pic. 9) along the buttonhole edge. This gives a super-look and some support around the edges of the buttonhole.
3. Use the scissors and the hole punch tool for cutting hole on textile.
4. Use a special sewing thread for buttonhole making, for example, the Gutermann silk threads № 30.
Types of buttonholes
There are several types of handmade buttonholes – “standard”, “round end” and “keyhole” (pic. 2). Standard buttonholes use for blouses and dresses, round end and keyhole buttonholes – for jackets, coats and pants. Round eyelet – for hoods, embroidery buttonhole – for designer’s garments.
How to make a buttonhole straight bartacking is shown on the pic. 3.
To contents ▴Hand-made buttonhole – easy way to do it
You will learn about the eyelet straight bartack buttonhole making in this tutorial.
Mark the buttonhole on the garment 1,5 cm from the edge. The size of buttonhole is equal the buttons size + button thickness. А fabric around the buttonhole sew by straight stitches (pic. 5).
Read more: How to mark buttonhole on the garment
The first, cut the eyelet with the hole punch tool (eyelet size is about 3-3,5 mm) (pic. 6).
Cut a hole with scissors (pic. 7).
Overcast the edge of the buttonhole by stitches as shown on pic. 8. Use for this thread the same color as the fabric.
Prepare the twist thread for raised of edge buttonhole. Take two pieces of thread about 20-30 cm long. You must twist the both ends of threads (left and wright) to the left side (pic. 9). The thread will twist in the center. This technic is a simple method to prepare the twisted thread for raised of edge buttonhole. This gives some extra support around the edges of the buttonhole.
Place the twisted thread along the edge of the buttonhole and pin on the both sides (pic. 10).
Sew the one side of buttonhole by buttonhole stitches, using the special thread (pic. 11).
Tighten the thread after each stitch (pic. 12).
Sew a buttonhole straight bartacking for securing the ends as shown on the pic. 13.
Cut the threads ends.
Sew 3-4 stitches near the eyelet and form an eyelet using an awl as shown in pic. 15. Iron the garment and buttonholes.
Finished buttonhole – the result of the work is shown in pic. 16.
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