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How To Sew a Button on By Machine

By: Linda September 15, 2010

Basic Skills, Sew For Doughhand sew, missing button, thread, thread shank5 Comments

Do you know how to sew a button on with your sewing machine? For those of you who don’t know how, or feel a little intimidated in trying, here’s my technique. Find a button for the garment and push the button through the hole to make sure it fits. Place the button over the original…

Hand Sew a Hem

By: Linda June 15, 2009February 18, 2023

Basic Skills, Hemshand sew, hem, hem pants, how to hand sew, how to hem by hand, how to sew by hand, how to stitch by hand5 Comments

Recently, a reader inquired about how to hand sew a hem. So, let’s walk that through together. There are many techniques and stitches that can be used, so I just want to say up front that this is not the final word in hemming, but I hope it will help. First, if you would like to look at…

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