I am making this a post because I personally had a hard time with buttons at first. I didn’t quite understand how tight they had to be against the fabric or how to correctly loop the needle through. It can still be a bit challenging, especially due to the fact that there are so many different types of buttons out there! Now let me also mention that I never looked up videos for sewing buttons, I sort of just assumed at first and figured it out myself.

One thing that I have noticed about these is when they start the thread they only do one knot. I personally do multiple because sometimes I pull the thread too hard and the knot will go right through the fabric! It’s not hard to do multiple though, it just takes up more time.

  • I had to choose this video! I just had to! The camera quality isn’t the best and it’s from 2011 but honestly it just cracked me up with the fact that the woman is using a giant button! This video is by Nicki Callahan!
  • This video got me. It’s a sewing video directed at men and honestly it’s very entertaining! It has very good camera angles and a good voice over! Now it’s said to be for men, but honestly it’s just a good sewing technique and I learned something from it so I recommend watching this video by Real Men Real Style – especially if you want to replace that button on your shirt sleeve.
  • This is the same button style but just another view from someone else on how to sew a button. This is from When Creativity Knocks and the host of it is a very sweet lady. Her introduction line is about how her kids friends don’t know how to sew! How could they? Anyways she gives a nice step by step tutorial too.

Something else I notice with the YouTube selections that are given when typing in Sewing Buttons is they are almost all the same type of button. I understand that those are the most common type of button, but there are others and I have had to sew those others before! There are fabric/shank buttons (which Sewing Bee Fabrics actually made a tutorial on how to make fabric buttons which I have never done before but seems fun! Treasurie does it as well!)

  • Treasurie shows you how to sew on multiple different buttons which is very nice! I definitely wish that when I started sewing I looked up how to sew buttons and different button types instead of just winging it, it would have made everything much easier!
  • Make It Coats has a tutorial as well, it feels a bit slower but I’m sure if you’re going along with it, this helps a lot! Again, I probably should have looked up sewing this type of button in my past because I see now it could have been much easier.