There have been a many button orphaned from their garments around my home, patiently awaiting the day they can been re-united. It is not out of neglect or laziness that I have never sat down to re-stitch them with the love they deserve - but rather out of lack of skill in how to actually do it.For a long time the only sewing tools I owed were in a compact plastic kit from the Hyatt hotel...(may I add, never opened collecting dust discarded at the bottom of a draw). I have since decided this just doesn't do and leveraging from the benefits of modern technology I Googled how to simply re-sew a button. Behold below my discovery. Trust me this is so simple you will feel completely foolish if you, like me, did not know how to do this before...
You'll Need:
The lost button and garment
Needle
Matching thread
1. Take the button.
2. Choose thread that either matches the thread color used on the other buttons, the color of the button or the color of the material.
3. Cut a piece of thread about 1/2 yard long (approximately finger to elbow).
4. Thread the needle, feeding the thread through the eyehole.
5. After the thread is through the eyehole, move the needle to the middle of the thread and fold the thread in half. Tie a knot at the end of the thread, where both ends of the thread meet. Tie another knot, so that the end is doubly secure. The thread should now be doubled and ready to sew.
6. Place the button on top of the material where you intend to sew it into place. You can put a match or toothpick in between the button and the material to give it the necessary slack.
7. From under the material, push the needle up through the material and one of the holes on the button. Pull all the way through until the knot is anchored against the material.
8. Push the needle down through the next hole on the button and through the material.
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 three times, going up and down through the hole on the button and through the material, so that each hole is secured by multiple strands.
10. End with the needle on the material side and secure it with a knot. Double-knot this end.
Step-by-step taken from http://www.ehow.com/how_4604_sew-button.html
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