How to Crochet a Button Using a Plastic Ring
Add a personalized flair to your next crochet project by adorning plain two-hole buttons with custom crochet covers. When you crochet your own buttons, you can choose whether to use matching yarn to blend the buttons into the piece or use contrasting yarn for an eye-catching splash of color. The magic ring technique allows you to create a slip-on cover that you can adjust to fit snugly around the button of your choice.
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Instructions
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Make a "magic ring" or "magic circle," so named because it automatically cups as you crochet. Wrap a 6-inch yarn tail behind the working yarn. Insert your hook into the loop you just made and pull the working yarn through. You will have one loop on your hook.
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Pinch the point where the yarn meets and, while holding onto it, chain two stitches.
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Make a half-double crochet stitch by wrapping the hook as you would for a double-crochet, inserting the hook into the next stitch, pulling the wrap through and then through all three loops on your hook. Work 10 half-double crochets into the ring, working your stitches around the tail.
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Pull the tail to tighten the stitches and close the middle of the ring. Join the round with a slip stitch.
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Chain two stitches. Work the second round by making one half-double crochet between the posts of the stitches of the first round.
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Work two double crochets between the posts of the second and third stitch. Work one double crochet between the posts of the third and fourth. Repeat all the way around the row, alternating one stitch and two.
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Join the round with a slip stitch in the front loop of the first stitch. Chain three stitches.
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Work one round of double crochet into the back loops of the stitches of the previous row. Your crochet will form into a cup shape.
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Lay a button into the crochet cup. The button gives the yarn some needed structure and shape. Pull the yarn from the magic circle to tighten the cup around the button and thread the end through a darning needle.
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Sew through each stitch, all the way around the button, to pull the stitches together.
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Pull the tail of the magic circle to close the crochet around the button. Use the tail to sew the button to the garment.
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