Sewing a Bound Buttonhole by Hand

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Candi Cane Canncel with Expert Village. In the last clip we actually machine stitched our bound buttonhole to get a really nice fancy secure button. I'm going to show you how to do the exact same finishing technique but instead of using the machine we're going to use, sew it by hand. So you do the first steps where you already have your facing in place when ahead and pinned it and pressed it. Now the last part about stitching around the edge, we're going to do this by hand. So what you want to do is the same thing as you started in one of the corners and you come up and you're basically just stitching in the ditch and the ditch is just the little fold where the bound button meets the fabric. You just want to go ahead and stitch all the way around sometimes it's a little easier to do the bound buttonhole by hand cause you can get a more visible stitch. Also sometimes when you're first starting out it's a little intimidating to do it by the machine and so if that's the case then you can do the same exact thing. Just running a stitch going all the way around in the ditch you can see that's just this little fold right here. Of course when you're stitching this, you want to use this same color of thread but I'm just using a different color thread so you can actually see what this looks like. You end up getting a much more invisible stitch this way. It's an old fashion way of doing it but it does give you a really cool result. I love using these types of buttonholes, if you're using a jacket or a overcoat a few years back I made a really cool vintage inspired A line jacket. I just needed one button for the front and buttons for the cuffs there is only three buttons so I figures why not make it fancy buttons. So again your just going all the way around it is really cool cause you do get this various visible little stitch going, you can either stitch forward or backward which ever is easier for you."