Sewing on a Button by Hand

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Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. In this clip I'm going to show you how to sew a button on by hand. For most people that seems really elementary but as a sewing instructor I can't tell you how many times I had students say "I don't even know how to sew a button on". So I'm going to show you how to do that. We're just using an inexpensive plastic button that has four holes. So we're going to go ahead and put it onto your garment and what I like to do even when sewing by hand is to tape it on. This just ensures that it doesn't go anywhere so you taped it on and you want to get a needle and thread. When people are first starting to sew there's a tendency with the needle and thread to actually double up the thread. What that does actually is make it more easier to make it knotted. So what I like to do is just leave one end hanging and then have one single layer as oppose to doubling them. Go ahead and tie it and secure a knot at the end. Then from the back you are going to slip your needle into the fabric and through one of the holes. Then you are going to come over to the next hole and just pull it through for a couple of times. Go back through to the original hole and from the back you want to try to get it as close as you can to your original hole. Then go into the other hole and do the same thing, do it about eight times. After a few tries you actually get into a rhythm where you can pretty much get it close to your original hole. Cause you don't want to have this big bulky bit of fabric on the back with the bulky thread of the button. So once you done that you just come to the back and kind of loop the needle into the little stitches you already made, pull it through to secure it as a knot. Then you are going to stick your needle into one of the next holes. With most buttons they are either going to have two holes or four holes, a lot of them will have two holes but in this case you'll have to do that once. But for this particular button it just has four holes we're going to have to go and do the same exact thing but in a second set.

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