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Posted on: 5/4/06 11:26 AM ET
I am nearly finished on a jacket using KS3386 and I should be in a position to post a review but the buttonholes are driving me mad. Each sample on a scrap of fabric is fine but when I try for real the reverse side gets "hung up" in the fabric and finishes early, and I end up unpicking it. this is difficult as the fabric is loosely woven. I don't know what the fabric is made of but it is the identical twin of the Purple/Pink?Tan Boucle Plaid for sale from Casual Elegance. Any ideas of how I can overcome this problem?
  
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Posted on: 5/4/06 11:33 AM ET
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Try using a piece of tear away stabilizer underneath your fabric.

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Posted on: 5/4/06 12:55 PM ET
You may also try using a piece of silk organza on the underside and stitch buttonhole trough it. It will hopefully prevent stitches from sinking in. You'll need to trim organza close to buttonhole stitches when finished. Be sure to use silk, and not poly, unless the buttonholes will never touch the skin. Poly organza is extremely scratchy at the cut edges against the skin.
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Posted on: 5/4/06 5:57 PM ET
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Are you using the automatic setting for buttonholes on the machine? You could doing the commands manually. I usually don't use the automatic setting since the manual lets me stop and start when I see the stitching is exactly where I want it to be.
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Posted on: 5/5/06 0:19 AM ET
If all else fails you could always hand stitch them, then you would have total control.
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Posted on: 5/5/06 5:21 AM ET
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Susan, it could be that the foot is against the seam allowance and feeding thru differently to your sample. I have had this happen too Putting the tearaway stabiliser underneath works really well to provide extra stabilisation for the fabric..The extra bonus...if the stsitches goof up, it is easy to slide the seam ripper under the tearaway and the fabric is never in danger of being cut.
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Posted on: 5/7/06 4:49 AM ET
Thanks to everyone, two almost perfect buttonholes achieved, firstly by working out where the buttonhole was due to end, and turning the jacket round so that it was sewing towards the seam allowances and I could support the weight of the jacket better on my worksurface, and then by putting the suggested stabilser under the buttonhole foot and on top of the fabric. The buttonholes stitched perfectly and I only have to sew the buttons on and this jacket will be finished. The thread does stand proud of stabilser and if there had been any problem it would have so much easier to updo. Thanks again....
  
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