Button Toppers
Diane Giancola, the fashion director for Prym-Dritz, shows how to cover plain metal buttons with fabric. These buttons are available in a variety of sizes, including one that is large enough to be made into a pin, ... [... more]
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Bound Buttonholes
You need to create an opening in the facing so that the buttons can go through. Place a pin through each corner of a buttonhole. Turn over to the facing and mark between the pins with chalk. Make sure the line is ... [... more]
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Beaded Buttons
She begins assembling the pin by gluing the button to a piece of felt and letting it dry overnight. Next, she threads a needle with a double thread., bringing the needle and thread through the bottom side of the felt ... [... more]
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Frog Closures
Fold the second looped end of the figure eight toward the center at the twist tie and secure it to the center using fabric glue. Don't overlap the two loops, just butt them together at the twist tie in the center. ... [... more]
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Button Earrings
Carol transforms buttons into earrings by clipping off the backing of the button with a wire clipper, and then filing the nubs with an emery board. Designs may be glued on with jewelry cement or Quick-Tite, or ... [... more]
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Button Tips
Java Jacket pattern and stencils - Revisions (Model #: #104 - jacket pattern) ... [... more]
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Bound Buttonholes
You need to create an opening in the facing so that the buttons can go through. Place a pin through each corner of a buttonhole. Turn over to the facing and mark between the pins with chalk. Make sure the line is ... [... more]
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Zippers
Begin by basting the seam. Once the seam is in, lay the fabric and seam out flat. Lay the zipper on top of the seam with the zipper face down. ... [... more]
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Zippers
Zippers are a definite fashion statement, but can also be very intimidating to sew. Host Sandra Betzina eases these fears with a demonstration on how to sew several different types of zippers including an exposed, a ... [... more]
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Button It Up
Make unique napkin rings by sewing an assortment of buttons on a ring of elastic that is about an inch wide. Slide the ring around a rolled-up napkin for a fun decoration (figure C). ... [... more]
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Artistic Closures
Host Sandra Betzina and her guest Lois Ericson show how to incorporate a closure into the design of a garment. Ericson then demonstrates how cording can be sewn behind faced shapes to create unique buttonholes. by Lois Ericson and Anne Charles ... [... more]
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Buttonhole Placket
You want the seam for the buttonhole placket to be right on the center-front line. So, cut on the fold line (5/8 inch away from the center front.) You are working on the right front. Cut out the fabric according to ... [... more]
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