How to Make Fabric-Covered Buttons

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If you always thought that you had to purchase a special kit to cover buttons with pretty fabric, here is good news. You can cover even the ugliest button with a scrap of pretty fabric and use these buttons in sewing or crafting projects. The covering method is easy, and it only takes minutes to cover a button.

This is an economical option for making attractive buttons to go with every project without having to spend money on expensive, matching buttons.

Things You'll Need

  • Small piece of fabric
  • Button (any size, with or without shank)
  • Scissors
  • Embroidery floss (complimentary color to fabric)
  • Needle
  • Tape measure
  • Fabric pen
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Instructions

    • 1

      Measure the distance from the center to the outer edge of the button.

    • 2

      Lay the fabric scrap onto your work surface with the wrong side facing up.

    • 3

      Position the button upside down onto the center of the fabric scrap.

    • 4

      Measure the distance measured in Step 1 out from the edge point of the button, and place a small mark onto the fabric with the fabric pen.

      Repeat several more times at different angles from the button.

    • 5

      Connect the marks made in Step 4 to draw a circle around the button with the fabric pen. Remove the button from the fabric for now.

    • 6

      Cut out the circle drawn in Step 5.

    • 7

      Thread the needle with a 10-inch length of embroidery floss. Sew around the outer edge of the fabric circle. Do not knot or clip the thread yet.

    • 8

      Position the button wrong side up in the center of the wrong side of the fabric circle.

    • 9

      Pull the ends of embroidery floss to pull the fabric circle around to the back of the button.

    • 10

      Knot the embroidery floss to secure the fabric circle around the back of the button. Clip the excess floss.

    • 11

      Check to make sure that if there is a shank on your button it is not blocked by fabric.

    • 12

      Sew your button to your project either with the button shank or through the holes of the button.

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