Sewing School: Buttonhole Skills Session

This session is all about buttonholes. Gill will share her hints and tips on buttonholes, including how to prepare your buttonhole before sewing, techniques for buttonhole placement, using an automatic button function, using a stepped buttonhole function, sewing a buttonhole without any automation. By the end of the session you will:

• Have sewn a buttonhole using an automatic buttonhole function (if your machine is compatible)
• Have sewn a buttonhole using a stepped buttonhole function (if your machine is compatible)
• Have sewn a buttonhole without any automation
• Learnt techniques for preparing your buttonhole before sewing it, to avoid problems
• Sewn at least two buttonholes that are lined up
• Understand the key principles of button placement

Required sewing knowledge and experience

A good basic knowledge of a sewing machine and be able to sew a straight stitch. Attendees need to be familiar with loading a bobbin, changing a needle and changing the foot on their sewing machine.

This session is not suitable for absolute beginners that haven’t got experience of using a sewing machine or sewing fabric together.

Fabric and tool requirements

Please bring your own sewing machine and supplies with you. You will need to have a buttonhole foot, buttonhole stabiliser plates, two colours of thread – a contrasting colour to be used in the bobbin and marking tools (preferably a heat erasable pen).

Everything else you will need will be provided for the workshop.