How to Patch Hole by Machine

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now I am going to show you how to sew a button on with a machine. We've repaired our hole with a button that we sewed on by hand and now we are going to sew on the rest of the buttons by machine. First I've marked where we are going to place the buttons and we want to set our machine settings like this. The zigzag we are going to put to about a 4 and our stitch length will be 0. However your machine sets up, that is the way you should do it. Make sure that you have a zigzag foot in your machine. It should have a wide opening where the needle goes so that the needle will be able to go back and forth. Now we are going to place the button in our spot and line the holes up with the opening in our zigzag foot. Can you see that? Okay. Now we are going to test it by rolling our machine forward and making sure that the needle goes into each of the holes. It goes into one hold and the other. We are basically doing a zigzag stitch in the holes of the button. After you are sure that it is lined up and the needle will not hit the button itself that it only goes through the holes, then you can step on the foot peddle and sew that button on. Now if you want to secure it with a knot, you can move the needle position to one side or the other. I'm moving it to the left and put your stitch width on 0 so that now the needle will go down only in one whole in a single stitch and that will knot the button into place. Then simply remove it from the machine and snip your threads. You can repeat that with all the other buttons or you can hand sew them on and there's our repair using a button to patch a hole. "