Sewing Buttons on a Homemade Purse

Video Transcript

"So the last step here is just to sew these buttons on and for the black side I've chosen this really pretty burgundy button which I think looks fabulous. It's a great print on there. Then I'm going to put this one on this side. So what I want to do is I want to find the middle of this to make sure the button is on the middle of the purse, not on the side. You don't want that. You just kind of fold it over, find the point that I want it and I want it you know right there, right in the middle of that loop. I'm going to turn this through and I'm going to sew both of these buttons on at the same time. Because they're going to be on the same spot just on different sides of the purse. So I got one started, I'm going to go to the other side. I'm going to go ahead and start sewing that one too. Now you know when you run it back through, you're sewing on this side. It's pretty simple. Then you go through on this side and you catch it again. You're basically just going back and forth. You can sew them on one at a time if you want, but I found that when you do that it's kind of difficult. It's hard to sew on one button at a time because the other one is in the way. So I sew them on together half the time. There we go. Sometimes I like to go around a little bit if they're flat buttons. We don't want the buttons falling off, that would be embarrassing. Here we go. Okay, all I have to do is tie a little knot on this little purse on this button and we're done. I'm making a knot and you snip this through and I think we have a cute little purse. This is one side; this is how it would look, really cute. Let me show you how it looks reversed out. You can do the same trick, put your finger in, push it in, put your finger in just push it in, flip that out and you have an adorable little green purse from recycled curtain fabric. Which I'm sure my niece is going to love this purse, it's definitely her."