Thread Length to Sew a Jacket Button

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Hi, I’m Andrew on behalf of Expert Village.com and in this next clip I am going to be discussing how to determine the amount of thread you need to use when sewing a button onto a men’s long jacket made out of a polyester outside and silk lining on the inside. Now typically that we’ve marked our button it is time to decide the color of thread and usually we decide on something that goes with the outfit if you choose to show off the stitching or if you want to conceal it you would choose something that would be similar in color and shading to the outfit itself. But for this purpose because I want you to see what is going on I am choosing white thread. Now polyester typically is a little bit of a thicker material not so much as in pants. With jackets it tends to be a folded thin layer so it is not as thick as the pants that I showed earlier but you also have this silk lining. Silk is a lot more think but because it is doubled up against a double layer of polyester it is going to need a little bit of a thicker needle and a little bit more thread to reinforce the button. So what we are going to do is typically with cotton garments you would choose about 6 feet or so and double it up so you would have 3 feet of doubled thread. But we are going to double that because of the thickness of the garment and the fact that we are going to use twice as much to secure to fasten the button. So we are going to just cut off the thread and then thread our needle so that we can begin sewing on the button.

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