How to Sew a Button

A button falls off your favorite pair of pants, your work shirt, the back of your daughter’s favorite dress – all you need is a needle, thread, and five minutes and you’ve got this!!!

Below is a short video demonstrating how to sew on a button (and probably most importantly, how to knot it so that it stays on!).  The video involves a four-holed button, and basically sewing an “X”. But if you have a two holed button, just come up one hole and down the other a few times and knot on the back just like in the video.

But first, here are a couple tips for success:

• If you have it, use embroidery thread – embroidery thread is six threads twisted together. I like to pull it apart into 3 and 3, and use one of the strands of 3 threads to sew my button. The three strands together are so much stronger and do a much better job of holding the button in place with fewer stitches. And embroidery thread comes in every color of the rainbow!

• Knot your thread 2 or 3 times on the back – one knot comes out easily, two is a bit harder and three, well, that button isn’t going anywhere!

Now for the video!

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If you would like more practice sewing buttons, try out the cute Button Tree project, complete with smilie face!  You will be a button-sewing master!

Happy Sewing!!!

– Jamie