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Fabric Covered Buttons

fabric covered buttons (no kits)!

This is a super easy and inexpensive project. It is excelent to use those ugly loose buttons and scraps of fabric.
You will end up with nice buttons ready to use for your crafts and sewing projects, and the best part is that you won't have to be looking for those expensive kits to cover buttons.

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Materials:
1. Scrap of fabric (enough to cover the button that you will be using)
2. A button with a shank. (Button with a loop on the back. No holes)
3. Scisors
4. Embroidery thread (just 3 ends)
5. Fine needle
6. Ruler
7. Ball point pen
With the ruler measure the distance between the shank and the edge of the button.
With the pen and from the edge of the button, mark onto the fabric the distance that you obtained from measuring the inside of the button.
With the button on the fabric and upside down trace around the button the circumference of the piece of fabric needed to cover the button. Put the button aside and cut the circle.
With the needle and the embroidery thread, stitch a running stitch along the edge of the fabric circle. Make sure to leave a tail of thread long enough to make a couple knots.
Place the button up side down right in the middle of the stitched round piece of fabric.
Pull both ends of thread until the fabric snuggles the button.
Make a couple knots making sure the fabric is tight around the shank of the button.
It should look like this.
There should not be any fabric or thread blocking the button's shank so you can sew your button to your projects.

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Cat Morley

Jan 10, 2008 6:00pm

These are fab, thanks so much for sharing!

shelley

Jan 10, 2008 7:04pm

cute. and it looks very easy.

Methatsall™

Jan 10, 2008 9:05pm

i <3 it

Lady Lolita

Jan 10, 2008 11:57pm

Sweet! That's awesome, I love making my own buttons but your right, those kits are awfully expensive for what you get. Thanks for sharing!

Laura H.

Jan 12, 2008 2:12am

nice! is thaere any reason you use embroidery floss instead of regular thread?

athenamat

Jan 12, 2008 4:40am

This is so clever! I am always annoyed to buy those kits but I would love fabric covered buttons for projects. In a swap someone gave me fabric covered buttons tied to hair bands and they look SO cute in my hair.

New England Quilter

Jan 13, 2008 3:46am

Wonderful and easy to follow instructions! I quilt and always have a ton of extra strips of fabric that I am not sure what to do with. I'll have to try this out - looks like fun!