Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
Buttons and Buttonholes
A course by Juliet Uzor , Seamstress and Content Creator
About the video: Buttons and Buttonholes
Overview
“We will take an in-depth look at buttonholes and buttons in this session. ”
In this video lesson Juliet Uzor addresses the topic: Buttons and Buttonholes, which is part of the Domestika online course: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress. Learn how to use a sewing machine and start creating unique outfits from scratch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Buttons and Buttonholes Buttons and buttonholes require quite a bit of attention, so in this lesson I'm going to guide you through how to create buttons and buttonholes on your dress. So here I have the right-hand side of the dress. For women's garments, buttonholes go on the right-hand side, and for men's garments, buttonholes go on the left-hand side. Ok, so here we have the right-hand side of our garment, and... we would have those markings on our pattern piece, that show you where you should have your buttonholes. So I have those markings transferred... onto the right-hand side of the d...”
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Course summary for: Sewing Machine 101: Make Your First Dress
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Category
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Areas
DIY, Fashion Design, Patternmaking & Dressmaking, Sewing

Juliet Uzor
A course by Juliet Uzor
Juliet Uzor is an elementary school teacher based in London with a passion for sewing and inspiring others to create their own fashion pieces. She is a self-taught seamstress and the 2019 winner of BBC’s reality TV show Sewing Bee.
Juliet shares her passion for sewing through a diverse mix of content that includes writing a blog, creating video tutorials, sharing tips on Instagram, and writing clothes-sewing columns for a series of British craft and sewing magazines.
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