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Hi I'm Deborah DeMirza and I'm at Deluxe a resale clothing boutique in Eugene, Oregon.
And today I'm going to show you how to sew a button on a pair of jeans. So what you want
to do first is zip up the zipper so you'll know exactly where the placement is going
to be and if you need to you can slide the needle in, to the fabric where you're going
to start and then unzip your zipper. Now jeans are heavy duty material so you're going to
need to make space between this heavy part that's going to go in-between the button in
the bottom in the jeans that are under it, so I'll show you a technique that you can
use for that, so meanwhile I don't use knots on my thread I do three little tiny loops,
if you want a nicer cleaner look you can do your loops underneath the button rather than
in the back of the jeans or any kind of sewing on any kind of item you can do it right underneath
the button so it doesn't look as sloppy on the backside. So I do three tiny little loops
and the third loop actually locks everything into place so that's not going to go anywhere
even if you tug on it. So what you want to do is place your button, on the needle. This button has four holes in it, so we're
going to do just a loop this way several times then we're going to go and do the loops on
the other side. Now what you can do if you want to make sure that you have enough leeway
between the button and this fabric is you can do something like placing, two pins, or
a pin, you can just place a pin there or a toothpick or anything that's going to raise
the thread up a little bit while you're sewing so at the end you will have a little better
space between your button and the and the jeans underneath it. So what you can do is
just keep check on the bottom side to see where your thread is coming out and that you
don't have it bunched up under there, this is slipping out so I'll do another loop or
so to hold it in place. And you bring your, your needle up, and you just keep doing a
couple of loops I do usually five or six in each set of holes. And you just do that and
you can go underneath the button if you want to make it look really nice looking you can
go between you can come up through this, the hole and go into the button here and then
go between the button and the fabric if you want to start and have it look nice to it
come up through the other set of holes. And you do the same thing holding your pin in
place. Or toothpick. And sometimes you have to look in the back to see where it comes
out. Okay. And again you can do five or six depending on the strength and I use if you
have a heavy duty something like pants you can use button and carpet thread which is
a heavier duty thread and you don't have to do it so many loops, I'm just using regular
thread right now but it would be the same thing you don't have to do so much and it's
a stronger thread so it will tend to be a lot sturdier. Now when you're finished here
and you're coming back up through this loop. You come up and you go back to the button
but don't go through the jeans when you're finishing it off. And you can take your pin
out or your toothpick that leaves the excess fabric and you can pull up on the button and
then what you can do is you can loop your thread around the button, underneath between
your fabric and your button, and then you can finish off by doing your three little
loops, on your jeans between the button or on the backside it doesn't matter. And then you cut your thread close to your
work, now you have that little space between, your fabric and your button to allow for a
thick other piece to go through and that way it wont bunch your jeans, and that's how you
sew a button on a pair of jeans.