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From: MaryW
Date: 05-23-2007, 10:02 AM (1 of 5)
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Good morning everyone and welcome to my new subscribers. Our day here is quite chilly, not 50 degrees yet but the sun is shining brightly. It always amazes me what a sunny day can do for your disposition. Today my sewing tip is about buttons. I don't know about you but I love buttons. I love choosing them and I always marvel at how they can change the look of a garment. Some will make a plain top quite dressy, others can disappear against the fabric. How you want them to look is your choice. Carry around swatches in your purse when shopping for buttons. Sometimes you will find the most interesting ones in thrift shops or flea markets. Always make a buttonhole in your swatch so you can try the button on your swatch. Do not sew buttons with holes tightly against the fabric. This is something I always did but it is much better to give it a little room to move. I hope you enjoy our sewing tip newsletter and will recommend it to your sewing friends. Until next week, enjoy your time spent sewing. 
MaryW
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 05-23-2007, 12:02 PM (2 of 5)
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I was taught many many years ago to lay a straight pin or a toothpick across the top of the button I was sewing on to give it that extra room it needs. Seems to work fine. I've done it for years and never have to struggle with buttoning my buttons.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
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From: plrlegal
Date: 05-23-2007, 02:22 PM (3 of 5)
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My Pfaff manual shows laying a toothpick under the button you are sewing on. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: mare
Date: 05-23-2007, 07:59 PM (4 of 5)
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Good morning everyone and welcome to my new subscribers. Our day here is quite chilly, not 50 degrees yet but the sun is shining brightly. It always amazes me what a sunny day can do for your disposition. Today my sewing tip is about buttons. I don't know about you but I love buttons. I love choosing them and I always marvel at how they can change the look of a garment. Some will make a plain top quite dressy, others can disappear against the fabric. How you want them to look is your choice. Carry around swatches in your purse when shopping for buttons. Sometimes you will find the most interesting ones in thrift shops or flea markets. Always make a buttonhole in your swatch so you can try the button on your swatch. Do not sew buttons with holes tightly against the fabric. This is something I always did but it is much better to give it a little room to move. I hope you enjoy our sewing tip newsletter and will recommend it to your sewing friends. Until next week, enjoy your time spent sewing. When sewing a button which only has holes and no shank I make what is refeered to as a thread shank. This helps to button your garment with ease instead of sewing it too tight to get the button in the hole. Begin sewing your button with doubled thread as the normal. Make your first 2 stitches go thru the holes LOOSELY... now insert a strait pin under these stitches between the thread and the button on the top. continue stitching thru all the holes on your button until it's nice and secure. Take your needle and pass it thru the button hole one last time, remove the strait pin. DP NOTNOT PASS THE NEEDLE THRU THE FABRIC of your garment. Instead, pass the thread around under the button,between the button & the garment;about 3 to 5 times. then securely know and cut off underneith on the fabric side. this will make a thread shank which keeps your button on tight & eases buttoning. Always, Mare
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User: mare
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 05-24-2007, 05:20 PM (5 of 5)
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Brockie and Mare,, The method I was taught in Home Ec in the 8th grade is just exactly what you two have described.. I am almost 73 now and still sew buttons on that way.. My machine will sew on buttons but leaves room to make the shank the same way.. I clip the thread with a long tail when it is finished and thread it in a needle and pass it under the button and proceed to make the shank , then pass it thru the fabric and tie it off with the bobbin thread tail there.. Makes for a very secure button with just enough play in it.. Most of the time, though I still sew the buttons on by hand.. This is work I do at night while watching tv.. Sew With Love
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Member since: 05-01-2002 Total posts: 2022 
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