Your machine will sew on buttons.
It’s easy as removing the presser foot.
Watch this.
When we go into our A menu, go ahead and go to the third screen, stitch number 36 is the
“sew on buttons.”
You actually heard a little click.
That is the lowering of the feed teeth.
They lower automatically when you switch to the sewing-on-button mode.
We touch the question mark.
There we go and touch it, automatic button sewing for sewing on buttons.
Okay, nothing extra in there.
It does show you onscreen that there is a tool, the multipurpose tool, in use should
you wish to have a shank of thread for easier buttoning onto something thick.
I’m going to show you first how to do this.
Then we’ll show you how to use it with the tool.
If you just need to sew the button right onto the fabric with no extra little give to that
thread, you’re going to go ahead and just remove the presser foot.
Take your thread, sometimes I hold onto it.
I am going to lower the needle down into the left eye of the button and then lower the
presser foot down.
This ankle, the white ankle, sits on the button and actually helps hold it.
Now, notice this is a four-hole button hole.
I’m actually sewing on the front two first.
Just because it’s a little smaller size it gives a little bit more surface area for
this ankle to sit on.
If you do the ones in the back first, sometimes it will catch just the edge and it will try
to lift up that button.
That makes it a little awkward.
That’s just one little trick.
Go on the front two first.
Now, once you’re lined up here, what I would want you to do is hand turn so that the needle,
you make sure that it’s going to swing into the right side of the button here.
So just go ahead and stitch.
It’ll lock and it’s already done.
Then you can use the selective thread cutter and it will cut the thread for you.
It knows to pick a hole and not to just cut in the middle there, all right.
Then if we want to go ahead and do the other ones, just go ahead and rotate it 180 degrees.
Once again, lower the needle into one of the … the left eye.
Lower the presser foot.
Then just check the swing and you’re set to go.
Now, if you do need extra stitches, if you touch the sewing information, you can change
how many times it goes back and forth.
It was going eight times, but if you want to increase it, you could go up to twelve
times, actually, you probably go up a little bit more.
It will just go twelve times back and forth.
Then stop.
Then you can cut your thread, so, if you need to … Let’s see how far it goes up.
Sixteen times is the maximum size it’ll actually set.
It’s going to really reinforced.
Another quick little tip is if you take Fray Check and put a drop of that on your buttons
that you sew on, they’ll never come loose because the threads meld together, glue together.
You can use that tip to go through your entire closet, especially for the dress shirts of
a men’s shirts.
You can go and put Fray Check on every one of his buttons and you’ll never have to
sew buttons on.
Isn’t that nice?
How about for if we need a shank-up spread?
I’ll show you how you use it with the multipurpose tool we’ll drop this back down to the normal
setting of eight.
Go ahead and remember your multipurpose tool has two different thicknesses.
So, if you need a more shank of thread, you can use a thicker one.
We’ll just use the thinner one for this for now.
You can go ahead, set your button on top of the tool.
Once again, sink your needle manually down into the left hole of the button.
Then lower the presser foot down.
Check the swing.
There it goes.
It’s set.
I’m just going to just maybe check just because it moved just a little bit.
There we go.
Then just go ahead and stitch, and the lock and the cut.
There we go.
Now, what we have is we’ve created a little extra lift so there’s room for, as the fabric
is buttoned to this, there’s room for it to slip underneath and not buckle the back
fabric.
That is how easy it is to sew on buttons.