Sew Fast Sew Easy: All You Need to Know When You Start to Sew (17 page)

Step 3

As you go back down through the hole of the button toward the wrong side of the fabric, you will take your remaining thread and wrap it around and around those threads under the button to form your shank. When your shank feels stiff and secure, knot your thread on the wrong side of the fabric. Using this technique, you’ll never lose a button.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Meyrich, Elissa K.

Sew fast sew easy: all you need to know when you start to sew/ Elissa K. Meyrich—1st ed. p.cm

1. Sewing. 2. Machine sewing. 3. Dressmaking. I. Title TT705. M48 2002

646.2—dc21

2002017142