#buttonholes

Eleven. Eleven ways not to make buttonholes and (finally) one way TO make buttonholes. The trick is sheerweight fusible interfacing and not the heavier woven I usually use (which is what I grabbed first because I had so many scraps lying around.) I’m not sure if I ended up at the Chanel method that several folks mentioned but I wound up digging up the Butterick “The Art of Dressmaking” book my mother in law gave me and the directions for dual-sided bound buttonholes do in fact work great even if it took me a few tries to figure out what they wanted me to do. #sewing #quilting #stargazerChoreCoat #handmade #buttonholes

Here's a photo of the relevant page, in case you want to follow along. TLDR: Cut a piece slightly larger than the buttonhole, mark the box on the wrong side, sew the box in the correct location along all four sides, fold in the short edges towards the center and cut straight across the sewn box, being careful not to cut into the stitching and cutting THROUGH the folded edges right up to the line. Then cut through the center of the box and shove your fabric through to the back. You should be able to finesse the fabric to lie fairly straight and flat (this is where the sheerweight interfacing made a huge difference), and then double-fold in the horizontal edges towards the center. Press the absolute shit out of it and either stitch in the ditch by machine (if you like living dangerously) or whipstitch the edges down on the back. For quilted fabric, I found it was also helpful to run a line of stitching just to either side of the cut / center line of the buttonhole, to squish the quilt down flat and add some rigidity. #handmade #sewing #quilting #stargazerChoreCoat #buttonholes #vintage