Following my
buttonhole nightmare with Vogue 8604 I decide to learn how to do bound buttonholes and use them for my jacket. I followed
Tasia from Sewaholic tutorial and was pleasantly surprised to find out how easy they were.
Sherry and
Gertie also have brilliant tutorials. In fact it is dead easy when you doing isolated bound buttonholes, but when you need to do five, perfectly lined up the story is completely different.
I thought I had marked the placement lines carefully:
But somehow along the line, I ended up with two different buttonholes, so wonky that the only way to cover would be to get huge buttons. I was frustrated and only managed a
lousy photo on my phone to share with
my twitter followers.
CarmencitaB came to my rescue (as she always does, thank you!) and shared
this link (from a blog that I now follow), which shows more complex bound buttonhole marking techniques. I didn't follow it by the letter but took what I needed which was mark, mark, mark!! I can only hope all those markings will disappear easily. I also basted all buttonhole lips before I started poking holes, to make sure they all aligned.
And the results were much better!
I have attached the outer jacket shell (minus sleeves) and inserted the fake flap pockets.
Sherry shared a tutorial for jet pockets and I was determined to try them. But I confess, poking more holes in this jacket made me nervous so I stuck with the fake ones!
