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Summary: Sewing on a button car be easy if you have the right needle. Our expert shows you how to find and use the best needle for sewing buttons in this free clothing care video.

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Needle Tips for Sewing Jacket Buttons

Hi, I’m Andrew on behalf of Expert Village.com and in this next clip I am going to be discussing how to determine to use the right needle for a particular coat. This is a men’s long coat with a polyester outer lining and an inner lining of silk and due to the fact that the polyester layer is actually two layers folded together plus the fact that the button is overlapping on a silk lining, it is better to use a little bit of a thicker needle. Now what determines the thickness of a needle is not just the thickness but also the size of the eyelet between which you thread the thread. Now the larger eyelet is going to create a larger stitch which will typically require you to have more thread because you are going to have to puncture a longer hole and thus go back and fill it with more thread and secure whatever button or eyelets or a fastener you are attaching to the material. In this case, a medium size eyelet and a medium size needle will do just fine for attaching a button to the outside and going through both layers of the polyester into the silk lining and keeping the button fastened quite nicely. So a medium needle works perfectly for this particular type of material. If the needle were either too big or too small you would have problems with other than the button not being fastened well enough to stay on for long periods of time or in the opposite case you might have problems with the material you are actually sewing it to or coming undone over time.

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