This little bar is where your shank clamps on.
And all the way back here
is like a sliding holder
for your button.
So, for a bigger button
clamps on like that
for a smaller button,
clamps on just like that. To install it is really simple.
all we do
is take off the foot that we have
Slide this under. We want to put it right underneath the shank
so it can clamp on really easily.
And the important step here, once you have
your button in,
You want to bring down this little lever.
and match it up
with the little
white square right here.
That's going to let your foot know
how big the buttonhole needs to be.
So, if this were a shirt,
this would be the center of my buttonhole
and this would be the start and all the way back here would be the back [end].
Just something to keep in mind.
Also, a little tip, and know that it's helpful for some people to use a
stabilizer underneath the fabric
to help that buttonhole stay a little more secure.
So, it's just up to you, whatever you want to do.
All we're gonna do is put the presser foot down,
we're gonna pull down our little lever,
and all we do is press go and the foot will do the whole thing for us.
And that's really all there is to it. What were gonna do is get a seam ripper,
and open up the front
The material is going to fray a little bit. If you have a stabilizer, it will
prevent that a little bit more. If you have some an fusible stabilizer.
So that's all there is to it. It's perfect. It looks really neat.
also
if you're making a buttonhole, it doesn't always have to be for buttons. You could
thread
ribbon through here
You could put drawstrings through here. It just a really handy tool to help that going to make
perfect openings.
So with the buttonhole foot, it's going to work
just as well on knit fabric as it did on the woven fabric we did earlier.
This is a nice, light weight knit. I doubled it up. You could also put some
stabilizer underneath; that helps.
We're just going to use embroidery thread and a topstitch needle and it's going to look
really nice.
Here we go.
So, we can see here, it's a nice
clean and neat, beautiful buttonhole.
And the same thing as before, we're just going to
open it up with a seam ripper
down the middle.
Just like that.
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