Securing a Buttonhole for Sewing

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Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. So we just made our regular buttonhole using a four step button hole process on the machine. Now what you want to do to finish off your buttonhole is you are going to go ahead and tie off the little ends. After you taken your buttonhole out of the machine you want to take these little extra pieces of thread and tie them into a knot. This is just going to secure that they don't go anywhere. Just do a double knot and you can trim them off and you want to do the same to the back. If you really want to make it secure you can even add like a little dab of hot glue to the knot and that will definitely make sure that your yarn or your thread rather is not going anywhere. So you have that done now you have to open up your buttonhole. There are two ways you can do it you can either take a really small scissor or you can take a seam ripper. See how either this is small scissor or a seam ripper and you just fold your button in half and you go ahead and pierce the fabric. You open it up a little sometimes people find it easier to use a really small pointed embroidery scissors. You just go ahead and slice open the fabric but you want to be really careful that you don't mess up the little threads. Because if you cut into the threads that you just sewn your buttonhole is just going to unravel. It's really hard to do a buttonhole when you already have your threads cut and when you already have it sliced opened. So you just want to trim any little extra fibers of the fabric as best as you can just get it as close as you can. Then once you have that done you just want to take a button that you are using I actually made this buttonhole a little smaller. I'm going to try it out for this button and you just slip it in to make sure that it works. Again you want the buttonhole to be really tight because this is something that's going to be used over and over again. It's going to stretch out just a little bit so this fits perfectly. Now once you done one if you have a whole garment that you are doing you are ready to just continue doing the rest of them. But it's always a good idea just to do one to make sure that everything works out great.

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