How To Sew A Button

By Leeanne Utiger
Learn how to sew a button and wear again the clothing that you haven't been, simply because a button has come of. It is not a hard thing to do, and learning to sew a button will take you no time at all.

There are a couple of ways to sew a button depending on the garment you are wanting to sew the button on to. You will have to consider whether you are simply wanting to sew a button back to where it has fallen from, or whether you are planning to sew a button on to a new garment you have made with a sewing machine yourself.

If you are wanting to sew a button on a garment to replace a button which has fallen from this garment, you will need three things. You will need a needle and you will need some cotton which matches the same colorings as the fabric of the garment that you are going to sew the button back on to. You will also need a pair of scissors to cut your cotton with.

Cut your cotton to an appropriate length for sewing your button on to the garment with. Then you will have to thread your needle. This means, you will have to place one of the cotton through the eye of the needle. This is the hole at the top of the needle, away from the pointed/sharp end of the needle. Once you threaded the cotton through your needle, you can if you choose, tie a knot at the end of your piece of cotton. You are now ready to sew the button on to the garment which it either came from, or replacing. Make sure you place the button on the garment you are going to sew it on to, matching up with where the button hole is on the facing piece of fabric on the garment. You do not want to sew the button on and then find it does not meet up to where the button hole is, or you will still not be able to do the button up. If this happens, you will have to remove the button you have managed to sew on and sew it on again, this time being more careful to match it up with the button hole.

Once you have placed your button on to the garment, making sure it matches up with the button hole, you are ready to sew on the button. Bring your needle up through the fabric of the garment from the underside (wrong side),making sure you also bring the needle up through one of the holes in the button. Once you have done this, you now place the needle through the other hole in the button and push it down through the button hole as well as the fabric again. You repeat the upwards and downwards procedure until you 'feel' the button is secured in place, tight enough not to fall off. Once you have done this, you can knot off your cotton. Make sure you end on the underside of the garment fabric. Carefully place your needle through the fabric on the underside on the back of the button and then place the needle through the loop you will have created and pull. Repeat this once more and then snip off the cotton with your scissors.

You have now successfully managed to sew a button. I never said learning how to sew a button on to something was going to be hard.

However, if you need to learn how to sew a button on to a new garment you have made yourself on the sewing machine, you will not only have to know how to sew a button, but also how to sew or make a button hole. To sew a button hole, simply follow the instructions about how to sew a button hole in the manual, which would have come with your sewing machine at time of purchase. Once you manage to know how to sew the button hole and in fact do so, you will be ready to sew on the corresponding button.

There is no difference to being able to sew on a button for a garment you have made yourself, as for a garment you have not made yourself. The only additional thing you had to do, was learn how to make the button hole. On some sewing machines, you can sew the buttons on to the garment you have made also. Once again, you will have to learn how to sew a button on with your sewing machine, by reading and learning how to sew the button on from your sewing machine manual. Knowing how to sew on a button with the use of your sewing machine, will be described within this, in a manner you can easily understand and follow.

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