Measuring Fabric for Sewing a Bound Buttonhole

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Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. We already done a regular buttonhole by the machine, we done a buttonhole by hand. We even stitched off sewn on buttons and actually attached the button by the machine. Now we're going to do the fancy buttonhole which is called the bound buttonhole. Mostly what you'll find these are either in jackets or really, really nice shirts. It takes a lot of time to do this buttonhole so you really want to make sure that it's going to be somewhere you are going to see it. So you can really appreciate the detail of it. With the bound buttonhole we are going to be doing it on the machine and we're just going to be using a regular zigzag for it. The first thing you want to do is take your button and figure out how big your button is. We're going to be doing a bound buttonhole that is horizontal that goes side to side. So you want to make our little measurement side to side and this button is an inch so we want to make sure that the measurement is a little wider than that. You are going to go ahead and take a ruler and just draw a line between both of them. Now with this particular buttonhole you are going to be using a facing and a facing is nothing more than a little piece of fabric that goes on top of it. So in this case we're going to trim it down and you need a piece of fabric about 2" I say about 2" wide by about a 1 1/2". You just want to trim it down to a perfect rectangle. Once you have that you want to place it on top of your marking and go ahead and mark it onto the facing as well. Once you have that down you are ready to sew your bound buttonhole.

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