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Summary: How to understand different types of buttonholes to sew; get professional tips and advice on methods and techniques for sewing your own bedroom accessories in this free instructional video.

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Types of Buttonholes for Sewing

Hi, I'm Candi Cane Cannel with Expert Village. In this clip were going to talk about buttonholes. How to determine what type of buttonhole is best for what type of garment. Also, buttonhole placement. Now when you're dealing with women shirt, womens shirts tend to have the buttonholes on the right side. Whereas a mans shirt tends to have it on the left side. I really don't know why that is that's just the way buttonholes have always been done with garments. So when you actually working from a pattern, most commercial patterns will have buttonholes placements and they will have just little lines right up against the center front. That will show you where to figure out your buttonholes. If you're kneading your own garment the best thing to do is take a shirt that you really like that fits you perfectly, that is button down shirt. Look at that button placement something that is little as a button being a half an inch lower or half an inch higher has a lot to do with the fit. So you really want to just go off of something that you really like and fits you great already. You can determine the button placement when you're doing a shirt. The shirts tend to have the buttonholes going up and down, vertical. When you are doing a skirt or pants, they go side to side so just kind of keep that in mind when you are doing your buttonholes. The next thing you want to do is look at your buttons. On most commercial buttons on the back it will have a little measurement 7/8, 3/4 or an inch. You take that measurement and with your ruler you are going to be actually marking your fabric with that buttonhole, that button measurement. You also want to take into consideration you want the buttonholes to be up a little bit smaller than what the button is going to be because they tend to stretch out. So you want them smaller so they can wrap around and keep the buttons secure.

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