How To Sew On A Button - 5 Simple Steps - Man's Guide To Sewing Buttons On Shirts Jackets
Trousers
Sewing on a Button, presented by The Art of Manliness and Real Men Real Style.
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So buttons, they fall off in the laundry.
They break apart, and occasionally, they have to be moved when the collar is too tight.
I think a man should be self-sufficient enough to be able to make this small repair.
What are you going to need?
• Needle, two if possible and I'll show you where you're going to need the other one
here in a second.
You can also make do with a toothpick or a small pin.
• 24 inches of thread
• Matching button or any button in a pinch
• Knife or scissors, something to cut with
• Emergency sewing kit.
If you're in a hotel at a convention center, simply go to the front desk and ask for one
of these if you need to make a repair.
They're usually pretty easy to find and they have exactly what you need.
STEPS
1.
Here is your 24 inches of thread which has been doubled over and a button.
The first thing we're going to do is we're going to double the thread over, and what
that means is we're going to run the thread through the eye of the needle and we're going
to take 24 inches of thread and turn it into 12.
We're also going to knot the end.
The reason you want to do this is it's going to in a sense double the strength of the thread
and you're going to be able to sew quite a bit more in half the time.
2.
The second thing, starting on the back side, you're going to run the needle through the
area where you want the button to be.
What we're going to do is we're going to stitch from the back to the front, then from the
front to the back, and we're going to create an anchor, an anchor X exactly, and this is
where the button is going to be placed.
See that little X there?
That's my exact point where I want to place the button.
3.
Using the second needle, and this is where we use it as a spacer, we begin sewing the
button down and I'll explain in a second why we want the spacer.
So we're going back in and going from back to front, front to back.
We're using the anchor X to keep ourselves aligned as we know where to sew.
After approximately six passes, you're ready to remove the spacer.
Now, notice because we have a double thread, this is actually more like 12 pieces of thread
that are going back and forth here.
4.
We remove the spacer and what we're going to do is create a shank.
A shank allows the button to sit just off of the fabric and makes it easier to button,
and it will actually enable the button to stay and to last longer.
5.
Once you're finished with the six wraparounds, then dive the needle down and we're going
to be tying it off, which is step five.
So we're going to tie off the back side by threading it right through the back again,
as you can see here, and then we're going to tie a simple knot, cut, and we are done.
The button should last long.
You shouldn’t have any issues and that is all you need to sew on a button.
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That is it.