Finish Sewing a Buttonhole by Hand

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Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. You are going to go over about an 1/8" pull it through and then you are going to start actually binding off your buttonhole. We'll come back and finish off the edges. So at the very tip you just want to go ahead and pull the yarn through come back pretty much in the same hole and you are going to pull it through again. Move over about 1/8" you just want to make sure that you are actually getting the threads up to the fabric and not ending up at the very edge where it's fraying. You are just going to do this all the way around button again you just want to move over about 1/8". This sort of embroidery thread you would only really use if you we're making a heavy jacket or something that was really a big buttonhole. Something really delicate like silk you just wan to use just regular thread even you have get some really nice rayon thread, something with a little sheen to it. So I finish going all the way around again this looks a little chunky but you get the idea if you were making finer thread this would look a lot neater. So once you get to the very end you wan to go ahead and use a little securing on the corners. This is just to make sure that the buttonholes don't stretch out even more than. They will stretch a little but this gives them a little, give it at the very end so you just go through a couple times. Again that is similar to the second step on the buttonhole machine. You want to do that on one side so once you done it one side go ahead and tie this off. Trim it and we're going to go back to our starting point and do the same thing. So I'll tie another knot in my embroidery thread and go to your original starting point and do the same thing. Just run a stitch back and forth a few times.

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