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Step 19Buttons: Fabrication
Grab up your fabric remnants, your (will-be) buttons, scissors, a needle, and thread.
Cut a piece of fabric slightly over twice the size of your [button].
Run a basting stitch (with thread doubled) about half again the size of the [button] around the fabric.
Place [button] in the center of these stitches and pull the thread tight, encasing the [button].
Pinch up the excess fabric and, as close to the button as you can get, wrap thread tightly around this point several times (I go about twelve wraps).
Below the wrap, run the needle through across the breadth of the button a few times; wrap a couple more times; and tie off, leaving a significant tail of thread for sewing the button later (tail is only necessary on half of the buttons since we'll be sewing them together, essentially, back to back through the panel); snip off excess fabric.
Repeat, covering all of your buttons... for both sides.
Number of buttons and placement are entirely up to personal preference, just don't place them too far apart if your coat is snug fitting or it will gap. I am making four buttons per side, using the contrasting fabric, setting them 4" apart (on center), starting about 1" down from the top of the collar.
Cut a piece of fabric slightly over twice the size of your [button].
Run a basting stitch (with thread doubled) about half again the size of the [button] around the fabric.
Place [button] in the center of these stitches and pull the thread tight, encasing the [button].
Pinch up the excess fabric and, as close to the button as you can get, wrap thread tightly around this point several times (I go about twelve wraps).
Below the wrap, run the needle through across the breadth of the button a few times; wrap a couple more times; and tie off, leaving a significant tail of thread for sewing the button later (tail is only necessary on half of the buttons since we'll be sewing them together, essentially, back to back through the panel); snip off excess fabric.
Repeat, covering all of your buttons... for both sides.
Number of buttons and placement are entirely up to personal preference, just don't place them too far apart if your coat is snug fitting or it will gap. I am making four buttons per side, using the contrasting fabric, setting them 4" apart (on center), starting about 1" down from the top of the collar.
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