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GARMENT CONSTRUCTION TIP
Buttonholes in Tweedy Fabrics
The multicolored tweed fabrics so popular today often pose a challenge when it's time to make buttonholes. While there is often a variety of colors in the fabric that can be matched, selecting just one can create a buttonhole that calls attention to itself when you'd rather have the buttons or other details be the focal point. To help the buttonholes blend into the background more effectively, I select a couple of complementary colors from the fabric, use a slightly larger needle and a somewhat less dense buttonhole, and stitch the buttonholes with two colors of thread through the needle.
-- Karen Wolff
Adapted from Tips department, Threads magazine, August/September 2006 (#126), p. 16; Photo: Scott Phillips.
© 2006 The Taunton Press, Inc.
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