Sarah, it is wonderful seeing a young woman encouraging others to sew and use techniques that are slowly becoming a lost art. My grandmother, who was born in 1890, made clothing for herself and others. I have two shirts she made my parents that are about 70 years old with hand stitched buttonholes. The buttonholes have held up through years of wash and wear.
👍Thank you. 💞Reminds me of my childhood. My mom made clothes and forced me to do the same. I spent a lot of hours helping her and then spent summers and holidays school vacations making my own clothes. Practicing handmade button holes was one of those things I had to perfect to make her happy.
You make this much more simple than all of the tailoring videos I've been watching trying to figure this out. Thanks. Will practice some more with your method. I'm learning to make suit coats for my husband and sons. I want to do hand sewn buttonholes to finish them.
Thank You! I really appreciate the time and effort you take to share your skills, and that you are willing to show your mistakes too- "do unto others..." Now I feel I can finish my granddaughter's bishop with confidence! Thanks again, God bless!
+Eileen Redmon My pleasure, thank you for your kind words. Glad this helped :-) I've also used button loops to close the back of bishops too. I'm not sure if I've moved that video to this channel yet -- still might be on our main channel Slowvannah. Link is in the "about" section. Thanks again.
I needed to do a hand button hole on thick, fake-fur, layered fabric that there was no way it would fit in my machine. Thank you so much for making this video - all the others were incomplete or still used a machine for parts of it. I feel like I can get my project done now!
Thank you for this video. It was the simplest and easiest way to do buttonholes out of all the videos I tried to watch. Your's was the best. You talk to us like people, unlike some other videos that semi talk down to their viewers.
I started to collect all your videos. Love to learn from you. Your daughters are beautiful; amazing all you are able to do with your daughters around you. Wonderful to see that closeness. Keep up the good works. . .😊
There was an emergent need to make a buttonhole in my daughter's dress. My wife and I watched this and she is now confident to do that. Thanks a lot. Cheers from Kolkata, India.
Thank you, Sarah! I am working on heirloom Easter linens, and the embroidery is finished. I need a buttonhole on each one, so I spent the entire day watching videos on how to do them properly. Your video is by far the best one teaching this! Seriously, I felt dejected when I gave up trying to do it according to a professional tailor's youtube. Not one of the others mentioned how close the stitches are supposed to be! NO wonder mine was all bunched up, they were too close! Really, I am so happy that I found your instruction on this. Thank you ever so much. I am subscribing to your channel :-) I am retired now, and it is so fun to watch and learn from a young person teaching this craft. Also thank you for showing what mistakes can look like so I can watch for them as I try this. God bless you.
Oh my gosh thank you so much for the effort you put into helping us with these techniques. I have been disappointed in machine buttonholes, and recently started smocking dresses for a soon-to-be granddaughter. I tried your method tonight, had to redo it once, and it took and hour! But a very nice result. Thank you again.
You are so welcome, thank you for your kind words. Yes, they are a little bit more timely, but you'll get faster with practice. I can do one in 5-10 minutes. I find them to be so much nicer than machine buttonholes. Although, I will say after having my own baby, snaps are very convenient. Often I'll do a hand sewn snap with a button on top for the back closure (just a fake button for the look only)... that way you can use the convenience of the snap with the prettiness of the button. Meanwhile I love using the snapsetter snaps for the crotch area. I'll go back to hand done buttonholes once she is a little less wiggly :-) Anywho, have fun with them. And congratulations on your granddaughter, hope all goes well :-)
Hi, i want to say am a Mechanic by trade of 25 yrs , i try to cut a hole and do this Skilled job you lady do ! it looks easy but not ! YOU are GREAT at you all jobs i got to say this to you. I can do most anything but i have to say this is a SKILL and you are VERY GOOD at the JOB to. I TRY THIS had it so messed up ! am going to take it to some body who knows there job like you, YOU ARE good at your TRADE , and your site am sure helps lots of people to. BUT you make it looks easy, and that is why i want to say YOU ARE GREAT at what you do. NOT EVERY BODY can do this ! great SITE TO !! THANKS, for trying to help me ! Mickey
Thank you for the awesome video! I only hand sew and I was looking for a good buttonhole video and this one is it! I just finished a practice one and it was WAY better than my blanket stitch version. Thanks again.
Thank you, Sarah. I made a hand embroidered collar and wanted to do a hand sewn buttonhole, and your demonstration here was perfect since I already know how to make one with the machine.😊❤️Jane Jude
I need to do some hand worked buttonholes on a wool coat as the fabric is so thick my machine buttonholer refuses to cooperate.😣 (was stubborn about not doing bound buttonholes on this coat). Hope I can pull this off. Before I have had trouble getting hand stitching even on a hand stitched buttonholes. Yours is the BEST detailed tutorial on hand stitched buttonholes I have seen. Thank you!!😊
I did some on very thick wool this past winter. I would follow the same steps in this video, but use your machine to do a straight stitch around the button hole instead of doing that by hand (say 1/16" or so away from where the slit will be). I dripped some bee's wax on the freshly cut buttonhole to keep it from fraying while I worked the buttonhole stitches. then work the buttonhole by hand (sending your needle just past those machine stitches), I used silk buttonhole twist thread and it snitched everything down beautifully. thanks! ...I really need to do an updated video on this ;-)
Wonderful video. So helpful. I made a sundress for my granddaughter. My machine doesn’t have a buttonhole feature. My practice attempts to make a manual buttonhole on the machine were a mess. Thank you for the tutorial. You saved the dress.
I HAVE to know!!! I just watched your hand stitched button hole video which is probably a few years old because I have been binge watching you ALL day, is that your wedding dress in the background & did you make it??? I am so impressed with your skills & what I had thought was an outdated interest I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the inprirational talks that I caught on youtube about growth & not giving up as well as the push to buy some inexpensive fabric & dive in!!!. I just HAVE to tell you that I have been petrified of garment sewing since I made my first garment which was a basic , over the head flannel nightgown as a teen oh so many years ago. Now I am expecting my first granddaughter & I am going to pluck up some courage & go for it untill I am no longer embarrassed completely & you are literally, my inspiration! I was forced to shut down my own small business (which had nothing to do with sewing but probably everything to do with my body screaming enough already) I cant do most of the hobbies I have loved for years because all of them require muscle & I have been desperate for something to replace it. I am hoping I dont end up tossing my hands up & walking again but will make m ut self a promise to wait untill I have had a full year of failure without growth! I owe that to you & pray that in a year, I will thank you again. So dish for all of we envious beginners, did you wear your own work down the isle, because from what I can see that dress in the background is most definately bride worthy!!!
aww thanks so much! you're making me blush over here... but yes, that was my wedding dress and I made it. I'd make an entirely different style now, but that's how life goes. I'd love to make wedding gowns someday when I have a big enough sewing space. I'm glad you found my channel, and more than happy to help you through your projects. So comment away with questions or email me photos of your holdups and I'll do my best. There's no such thing as failure without growth, just a matter of harvesting it ;-) Congratulations on your upcoming granddaughter... this is the perfect hobby for you! enjoyyy!
Thank you! Had to do some tiny buttonholes in a collar for a shirt for a horse show competition, and my sewing machine couldn't manage that size. Your explanation is very clear :)
my granny taught me many many years ago and it's a very similar method to what you do so it was like a good refresher course and I appreciate your time you do great work
Good job and pointing out the slite error helped me see the difference of the correct stitching vs an off line stitch but overall I never really noticed the detail in just the button hole stitching. Thank you! Im just learning to sew.
This explanation of how to do manually sewn buttonholes is very nicely done. I wondered if you would recommend using an embroidery hoop to make the buttonhole so that the material is taught. Thank you so much!
Thank you dear, from Rio de Janeiro!!! I hope you'll kesp sharing all those beloved techniques!!! You'll find in me an attentive apprentice *_* Warm regards *_*
Thank you so much for this calm, helpful video. You say you use floss. I've never heard of this before other than in relation to teeth but I'm guessing it is what we would call embroidery thread in Europe. Could you just use ordinary sewing thread doubled or do you think that would not give a tidy finish?
yeah, I'm talking about the 6 strand embroidery thread (floss more commonly here in the states). But, I've learned recently that buttonhole twist silk thread is a better fiber for this application. It is a little pricey, so I only use it on really special garments and then use pearl cotton as a more affordable alternative. I don't think ordinary sewing thread would be secure or thick enough to look tidy.
What kind of thread R U using ? I had to make 6 button holes on a coat N four came out good I kept messing up the other ones. So I’ll just hand sew the other two. Thanks
Good video, however the knot should be away from the slit for a proper handwrought buttonhole. Give it a try and compare. I love to see younger folk interested in the sewing arts.
All fab, thanks- shame about soft focus and out of focus on stitches as you worked them. Quite impossible to see the detail of what you did, sadly. Your delivery and explanation are spot on and smooth.
what kind of thread do you use? I have been using gutterman topstitch but it doesn't seem to be as thick as yours, which means I need to do twice the amount of stitches.
Hmm i have no idea if there's a traditional method, i think everyone does theirs a little tuned to themselves. Buttt ive learned a bunch since making this video and really need to do an update
Why do you have so few videos? They are not very often. I've seen more helpful tips in the last hour. Truthfully very useful. Also theylet people try to make their dreams. I started sewing 60 yearsagio. I made all my own clothes for about 35 years. Life happened and I quit sewing.. I am thrifting fabrics and have bought patterns and have 2 working machines. I hope to make an entire new wardrobe starting very soon.
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Ah! Love that you’re speaking slowly, demonstrating and explaining each stitch. Very helpful and useful.
Ignore those thumbs down, honey. These are the best button holes I've ever seen. I learned a lot! Thank you!
Sarah, it is wonderful seeing a young woman encouraging others to sew and use techniques that are slowly becoming a lost art. My grandmother, who was born in 1890, made clothing for herself and others. I have two shirts she made my parents that are about 70 years old with hand stitched buttonholes. The buttonholes have held up through years of wash and wear.
Thanks so much
👍Thank you. 💞Reminds me of my childhood. My mom made clothes and forced me to do the same. I spent a lot of hours helping her and then spent summers and holidays school vacations making my own clothes. Practicing handmade button holes was one of those things I had to perfect to make her happy.
You make this much more simple than all of the tailoring videos I've been watching trying to figure this out. Thanks. Will practice some more with your method. I'm learning to make suit coats for my husband and sons. I want to do hand sewn buttonholes to finish them.
thanks so much. since making this video, I've heard that it's best to use this fiber called twist. I haven't ordered any yet, but just fyi
Thank You! I really appreciate the time and effort you take to share your skills, and that you are willing to show your mistakes too- "do unto others..." Now I feel I can finish my granddaughter's bishop with confidence! Thanks again, God bless!
+Eileen Redmon My pleasure, thank you for your kind words. Glad this helped :-) I've also used button loops to close the back of bishops too. I'm not sure if I've moved that video to this channel yet -- still might be on our main channel Slowvannah. Link is in the "about" section. Thanks again.
I needed to do a hand button hole on thick, fake-fur, layered fabric that there was no way it would fit in my machine. Thank you so much for making this video - all the others were incomplete or still used a machine for parts of it. I feel like I can get my project done now!
Thanks so much, glad the video was helpful :-)
Thank you for this video. It was the simplest and easiest way to do buttonholes out of all the videos I tried to watch. Your's was the best. You talk to us like people, unlike some other videos that semi talk down to their viewers.
You are too kind, thank you :-)
I started to collect all your videos. Love to learn from you. Your daughters are beautiful; amazing all you are able to do with your daughters around you. Wonderful to see that closeness. Keep up the good works. . .😊
There was an emergent need to make a buttonhole in my daughter's dress. My wife and I watched this and she is now confident to do that. Thanks a lot. Cheers from Kolkata, India.
Thank you, Sarah! I am working on heirloom Easter linens, and the embroidery is finished. I need a buttonhole on each one, so I spent the entire day watching videos on how to do them properly. Your video is by far the best one teaching this! Seriously, I felt dejected when I gave up trying to do it according to a professional tailor's youtube. Not one of the others mentioned how close the stitches are supposed to be! NO wonder mine was all bunched up, they were too close! Really, I am so happy that I found your instruction on this. Thank you ever so much. I am subscribing to your channel :-) I am retired now, and it is so fun to watch and learn from a young person teaching this craft. Also thank you for showing what mistakes can look like so I can watch for them as I try this. God bless you.
yayyy so happy to hear that the video was helpful, thanks so much!
Hi Sarah watching your videos I made smocked frock for my daughters just finishing hand made buttonholes again watching your video thanks
Oh my gosh thank you so much for the effort you put into helping us with these techniques. I have been disappointed in machine buttonholes, and recently started smocking dresses for a soon-to-be granddaughter. I tried your method tonight, had to redo it once, and it took and hour! But a very nice result. Thank you again.
You are so welcome, thank you for your kind words. Yes, they are a little bit more timely, but you'll get faster with practice. I can do one in 5-10 minutes. I find them to be so much nicer than machine buttonholes. Although, I will say after having my own baby, snaps are very convenient. Often I'll do a hand sewn snap with a button on top for the back closure (just a fake button for the look only)... that way you can use the convenience of the snap with the prettiness of the button. Meanwhile I love using the snapsetter snaps for the crotch area. I'll go back to hand done buttonholes once she is a little less wiggly :-) Anywho, have fun with them. And congratulations on your granddaughter, hope all goes well :-)
Hi, i want to say am a Mechanic by trade of 25 yrs , i try to cut a hole and do this Skilled job you lady do ! it looks easy but not ! YOU are GREAT at you all jobs i got to say this to you. I can do most anything but i have to say this is a SKILL and you are VERY GOOD at the JOB to. I TRY THIS had it so messed up ! am going to take it to some body who knows there job like you, YOU ARE good at your TRADE , and your site am sure helps lots of people to. BUT you make it looks easy, and that is why i want to say YOU ARE GREAT at what you do. NOT EVERY BODY can do this ! great SITE TO !! THANKS, for trying to help me ! Mickey
That's really sweet of you Mickey. Thanks a bunch :-)
Thank you for the awesome video! I only hand sew and I was looking for a good buttonhole video and this one is it! I just finished a practice one and it was WAY better than my blanket stitch version. Thanks again.
Oh wonderful, glad to hear that :-) Thanks for taking the time to let me know.
Thank you. That was great. I just finished a bishop and I will do hand buttonholes. You explain everything so well.
Thank you, Sarah. I made a hand embroidered collar and wanted to do a hand sewn buttonhole, and your demonstration here was perfect since I already know how to make one with the machine.😊❤️Jane Jude
I need to do some hand worked buttonholes on a wool coat as the fabric is so thick my machine buttonholer refuses to cooperate.😣 (was stubborn about not doing bound buttonholes on this coat). Hope I can pull this off. Before I have had trouble getting hand stitching even on a hand stitched buttonholes. Yours is the BEST detailed tutorial on hand stitched buttonholes I have seen. Thank you!!😊
I did some on very thick wool this past winter. I would follow the same steps in this video, but use your machine to do a straight stitch around the button hole instead of doing that by hand (say 1/16" or so away from where the slit will be). I dripped some bee's wax on the freshly cut buttonhole to keep it from fraying while I worked the buttonhole stitches. then work the buttonhole by hand (sending your needle just past those machine stitches), I used silk buttonhole twist thread and it snitched everything down beautifully. thanks! ...I really need to do an updated video on this ;-)
Wow! Thanks so much. These are great tips!
Wonderful video. So helpful. I made a sundress for my granddaughter. My machine doesn’t have a buttonhole feature. My practice attempts to make a manual buttonhole on the machine were a mess. Thank you for the tutorial. You saved the dress.
I HAVE to know!!! I just watched your hand stitched button hole video which is probably a few years old because I have been binge watching you ALL day, is that your wedding dress in the background & did you make it??? I am so impressed with your skills & what I had thought was an outdated interest I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the inprirational talks that I caught on youtube about growth & not giving up as well as the push to buy some inexpensive fabric & dive in!!!. I just HAVE to tell you that I have been petrified of garment sewing since I made my first garment which was a basic , over the head flannel nightgown as a teen oh so many years ago. Now I am expecting my first granddaughter & I am going to pluck up some courage & go for it untill I am no longer embarrassed completely & you are literally, my inspiration! I was forced to shut down my own small business (which had nothing to do with sewing but probably everything to do with my body screaming enough already) I cant do most of the hobbies I have loved for years because all of them require muscle & I have been desperate for something to replace it. I am hoping I dont end up tossing my hands up & walking again but will make m ut self a promise to wait untill I have had a full year of failure without growth! I owe that to you & pray that in a year, I will thank you again. So dish for all of we envious beginners, did you wear your own work down the isle, because from what I can see that dress in the background is most definately bride worthy!!!
aww thanks so much! you're making me blush over here... but yes, that was my wedding dress and I made it. I'd make an entirely different style now, but that's how life goes. I'd love to make wedding gowns someday when I have a big enough sewing space. I'm glad you found my channel, and more than happy to help you through your projects. So comment away with questions or email me photos of your holdups and I'll do my best. There's no such thing as failure without growth, just a matter of harvesting it ;-) Congratulations on your upcoming granddaughter... this is the perfect hobby for you! enjoyyy!
Thank you! Had to do some tiny buttonholes in a collar for a shirt for a horse show competition, and my sewing machine couldn't manage that size. Your explanation is very clear :)
my granny taught me many many years ago and it's a very similar method to what you do so it was like a good refresher course and I appreciate your time you do great work
Wonderful to hear, thanks for sharing.
this technique is useful for more than buttonholes. it's good for any type of small opening for which the edges need to be nonfrayable.
Good job and pointing out the slite error helped me see the difference of the correct stitching vs an off line stitch but overall I never really noticed the detail in just the button hole stitching. Thank you! Im just learning to sew.
Welcome to the wonderful world of sewing
This explanation of how to do manually sewn buttonholes is very nicely done. I wondered if you would recommend using an embroidery hoop to make the buttonhole so that the material is taught. Thank you so much!
thanks so much... and I prefer to just use my hands. I've done this on a range of fabric, from thick boiled wool to extra fine batiste. good luck!
Many thanks! Just about to add an extra button to a Tweed jacket, excellent tutorial.
Thank you so much! This is gonna be really helpful for the shirt I’m making.
Thank you very much 😍😍😍,
Now I can perfect my button holes 😁
Yey!
Really good video you given me all the tips I need to do the job thanks
very helpful,I needed to make small holes for my doll dresses it's so ecinomical,I have many cute buttons
Thanks, Sarah!!
Thank you so much:)! Very good demonstration and instruction:)
Very clear directions. Thank you!
Thank you so much!!! This is so helpful!
Could you use an embroidery hoop to give keep it a little more stability or would that stretch the fabric out and make it too taunt?
Love the "fine line" pun!
Thank you dear, from Rio de Janeiro!!! I hope you'll kesp sharing all those beloved techniques!!! You'll find in me an attentive apprentice *_*
Warm regards *_*
Thanks, that's so sweet. I'm glad you find them helpful 😊
Helpful and so special!!! It reminded me may grandma' *_* thank You!!!
Thank you so much for this calm, helpful video. You say you use floss. I've never heard of this before other than in relation to teeth but I'm guessing it is what we would call embroidery thread in Europe. Could you just use ordinary sewing thread doubled or do you think that would not give a tidy finish?
yeah, I'm talking about the 6 strand embroidery thread (floss more commonly here in the states). But, I've learned recently that buttonhole twist silk thread is a better fiber for this application. It is a little pricey, so I only use it on really special garments and then use pearl cotton as a more affordable alternative. I don't think ordinary sewing thread would be secure or thick enough to look tidy.
What kind of thread R U using ? I had to make 6 button holes on a coat N four came out good I kept messing up the other ones. So I’ll just hand sew the other two. Thanks
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Good video, however the knot should be away from the slit for a proper handwrought buttonhole. Give it a try and compare. I love to see younger folk interested in the sewing arts.
I have NEVER seen the slit made first.
So helpful!
All fab, thanks- shame about soft focus and out of focus on stitches as you worked them. Quite impossible to see the detail of what you did, sadly. Your delivery and explanation are spot on and smooth.
what kind of thread do you use? I have been using gutterman topstitch but it doesn't seem to be as thick as yours, which means I need to do twice the amount of stitches.
here I'm using dmc floss, but I've heard that it's better to use silk buttonhole twist... so I need to look into that option.
Hi Sarah, is this a traditional method or something you developed yourself?
Hmm i have no idea if there's a traditional method, i think everyone does theirs a little tuned to themselves. Buttt ive learned a bunch since making this video and really need to do an update
@@sarahclassicsewing Ok looking forward to that (update)
Why do you have so few videos? They are not very often. I've seen more helpful tips in the last hour. Truthfully very useful. Also theylet people try to make their dreams. I started sewing 60 yearsagio. I made all my own clothes for about 35 years. Life happened and I quit sewing.. I am thrifting fabrics and have bought patterns and have 2 working machines. I hope to make an entire new wardrobe starting very soon.
Thanks! Here goes nothing!! Lol
Hard to see