I ran across a unique looking bound buttonhole tutorial at The Sewing Divas blog and thought I’d pass it along. If you would like to provide something special for your customers, this could set you apart from all the rest. I figure this would be one of those “practice a new technique before trying on a customer’s garment” type of thing, but it is an awesome looking bound buttonhole!
I learned about this triangular shaped bound buttonhole in 1993 when I bought the book
Couture the art of fine sewing by Roberta Carr. I have made these kind of triangular buttonholes several times , the one above was done in a raincoat .
I made an example to show you the steps how to make such a triangular buttonhole and kept my text to a minimum because of copyright issue.
Step 1, measure the button length and space between the edge and the buttonhole.
Step 2, mark and transfer the lines ( horizontal and wide) on the interfaced fabric .
Step 3, thread trace the buttonhole length and wide on the patch.
Step 4, draw the triangular button lines.
Step 5, stitch using a tiny stitch length start anywhere on one of the long lines and stitch 2 diagonal stitches at the corners and at the point, overlap the beginning of the stitches with a few more stitches. I used a red thread for easy viewing.
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Step 6, draw lines so you can slash the patch in 3 sections . The lines of the patch marked in red, cutting lines inside the buttonhole in black.
Step 7, turn patch section 1 to the inside and press .
Step 8, press patch section 2 along the stitching line.
Step 9, do the same with patch section 3 as above.
Step 10, wrap patch section 2 and 3 around the horizontal slit edges on the inside and press from the inside .
Step 11, stitch the triangular tab to the patch through all the layers so it will be permanently attached.
Step 12, cut away excess fabric of the patch.
Done.
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