The 4 Steps to Sewing a Buttonhole

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Hi, I'm Candi Cane Cannel with Expert Village. In this clip I'm going to show you how to do a buttonhole on your machine using the four step process. The first thing you want to do is measure out your button and then make a little mark on your fabric where you want your button placement. Again if you were actually doing a shirt you would want to place them equal distance going all the way down the garment. So you already put your buttonhole foot on ,you take your fabric and you're going to line it up underneath the button foot and just center it, put the foot down. Now in my machine, I actually have four step button process and you just go ahead and change your wheel to the correct first step. Some machines will just have little arrows or they will even be lettered A B C and D but in my case it just has little pictures. The first thing we're going to do is also put your stitch line on a lower stitch line cause this smaller stitch line would give you a tighter buttonhole. So you've lined it up you make sure to switch out switch the stitch line and you're ready to sew. (sewing) When you get to the end of the buttonhole, you want to back tact which is simply pressing reverse and you want to come back down again. Now you are ready to do the next step. You are going to switch to the next little level on your machine once you come to the end of your buttonhole the next step is to turn your wheel to the next step of the buttonhole. After you do that you are ready to go on to the third step (sewing). Now when you reach the starting point you are ready for the fourth step which is pretty much the same as the second step. So switch your dial and go ahead and sew.

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