Embellish buttons

Make ALT NEW! I'll show you how you can easily change a button to match your outfit or a carnival costume or use it to embellish a pillow.
Often the matching button is missing, but with a small fabric residue you can make any button suitable! How this works, I'll show you here!

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Interactive instructions prepared so that children can do it themselves!


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 1 Button
 Residual substance
 Scissors
 Needle
 Thread
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Find a button and the matching, as thin as possible fabric.
Preferably you use a button that has an eyelet at the bottom (see picture).
Now prepare fabric scissors and pen.

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Now place the button on the rest of the fabric and edge it about 1cm wider than the button itself is.

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Then cut out the fabric circle with the scissors.

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Now thread a thread into a thin needle. You select the color of the thread according to the color of your fabric.
Then you knot the thread ends together.

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Now you stick the needle pretty close to the outer edge in the fabric.

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Then pull through the thread and let the end of the thread survive just under 10cm.

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Now go up and down around the fabric circle.
It is not important which side of the fabric lies above and below.

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In doing so, you keep pulling the thread piece by piece.
However, make sure not to pull through the end thread (the 10cm above).

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Sow until you are back at the beginning of the seam around the circle.

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That's what your stuff should look like now.
Leave both threads loose and the needle still on the thread!

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Now put the button in the middle of the fabric.
The beautiful side of the fabric now lies below!

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Then you touch the two ends of the thread and put them on carefully.
As a result, the fabric pulls together and lays around the button.

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Pull the threads together as evenly as possible.
Attention: pulls carefully so that the thread does not tear off!

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If the fabric circle has narrowly moved around the button, your result looks like in the picture!

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Now you tie the two threads together several times.

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Check if the button looks nice from the other side as well. As soon as everything fits, sew the overhanging thread.

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For this, you puncture the thread on the back several times through the fabric edge.
Then cut off the thread on the needle and finish sewing with a knot.

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Cut off the overhanging threads now.

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Finished is the covered button!

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You can also use the button for a nice pillow.
To do this, you choose the fabric of your pillow.
Attach the thread several times to the buttonhole. Only then push the needle through the pillow at the desired point.
You may also sew a button on the back of the pillow.

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This creates a beautiful pillow!

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Have fun trying it out!