Make your own fabric covered buttons

 Fabric covered buttons are easy to make from scratch.

Materials needed

Fabric [some scrap fabric will work fine] 

Scissors

Sewing thread

Embroidery thread [for the shank]

Batting or stuffing

Piece of plastic container like an ice cream box

Pen 

Beads and various embroidery thread if you want to make it even more special.

When you have gathered your supplies

Start with drawing circles on your plastic container as big as you want the button and cut them out. 

Find the fabric you want to use and cut circles about 2cm larger than the plastic circles. Cut out a circle of batting fitting the plastic circle or use stuffing. If you want to embroidery some thing or add beads now is the best time. I added running stitch using embroidery thread on two buttons and two with colorful fabric. 

Sew running stitch around the edge of the fabric circle. 

Place the batting in the middle of the fabric circle then the plastic circle on top 

Put the batting and the plastic circle into the fabric circle and pull the thread knot or other wise secure ends. 

Now your button should look like this on the front side. 

Cut another fabric circle for the back 

Fold in edges and sew it to cover the back of the button using ladder stitch or wip stitch 

Then it's time to make a shank 

Make a few loops using embroidery thread 

Blanket stitch all around the loop 

Now your button is ready to be used 

Easy Peasy right 👍

Blanket stitch

 

All of this borders are made by using blanket stitch.

It's just variations using different length or space between the stitches.

Pretty cool that you can create so much different using just one stitch.

The standard blanket stitch

is created by pushing the needle through the fabric from the front, about a quarter of an inch or five millimeters from the edge of the fabric. The needle is then brought around the edge of the fabric and up through the loop of thread before the stitch is pulled tight

 Can also be called cable stitch or crochet stitch. Often used to reinforce raw edges of thick items like blankets, often with a contrasting colour making it a decorative seam. Also used for edges on tea towels, towels baby blankets, crochet items and applique. 

Visually similar to the buttonhole stitch. 

It's a decorative stitch that can be used in mending. 

Like when the edge of the jeans pockets are starting to fray. 

Did you know it can be used to darn as well?

How to make a closed blanket stitch

Here is a variation of the closed blanket stitch

A few variations of blanket stitch 

Water Soluble Embroidery Stabiliser.

 Water Soluble Embroidery Stabiliser.

I have had a few questions about how I to use the water Soluble Embroidery stabiliser.

It’s quite easy.

You find a pattern you want to use, and put the embroidery stabiliser on top and draw with a pen after the lines.

I have a book with different patterns, or I look for something online.

Often I Google coloring pages as they are easy to copy.

When you have drawn your pattern, pin the stabiliser to the place you want to embroidery. 

Then just embroidery as usual over both the fabric and the stabiliser. It feels a bit odd to stitch through the stabiliser but I promise you the end result will be great.

It’s also very handy if you have a delicate fabric, making it more stable and easier to stitch. Like the dragon I stitch on my sisters shirt for mendmarch.

When you are finished with your embroidery it’s just to put your work under the tap and let running water do the job.

Much easier than using see-through paper like I did earlier, as it is tricky to remove and it would tear while you stitch. And often makes your embroidery a little too loose.