Posts Tagged ‘buttonhole’
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…
Read More3 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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