Mastering Slit Buttonholes

Slit buttonholes are simply openings in a seam that are part of the garment’s design. Sometimes they’re called in-seam buttonholes. They’re a solution if you dislike making regular buttonholes, but more often are used as a design feature. I recently used slit buttonholes for the jacket for Cotton Time magazine. The front band has five…

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3 Buttonhole Woes (and how to fix them)

It’s feeling like Buttonhole Week here at the Haywood Homestead – I’m working on three projects at once, all which need buttonholes and I must have sewn well over 60. My “everyday drive” sewing machine is a 1964 Singer that doesn’t make buttonholes, in spite of having an array of embroidery stitches.  I make buttonholes…

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