Sewing on a shirt button is a skill everyone should learn, as buttons often come loose or fall off even from our favorite shirts. Fortunately, the process is quite simple, and with the following ...

After you have sewn the button onto the fabric securely, insert your needle back through the fabric but not through the buttonholes. Then, push the needle under one of your stitches and pull it until ...

We're in our ‘fix it’ era! Along with learning how to un-shrink our clothes, fix a broken zipper and clean our suede shoes, we're also improving our sewing skills – and that starts with learning how ...

If you're anything like us, you have a pile of cardigans, coats and shirts with missing and loose buttons, that have waited to be mended for far too long now. Or, you have an item (perhaps a vintage ...

1 Thread and double knot your needle. Place the needle into the fabric so that the knot ends up on the back of the fabric. 2 Make a couple of stitches in the fabric where the button is to be located ...

The next time a favorite shirt loses a button, don’t toss it in the back of the closet, make the repairs yourself. Sewing on a button is one of the most underrated and useful skills a person can learn ...

Knits are a favorite of sewists but the sewing process is usually not. Let’s face it, sewing them can be a bit of a challenge. The main problem is that they are stretchy. And your sewing machine may ...