At 09:46 AM 9/7/05 EDT, Anita wrote: > I read someplace that when sewing buttons on a knitted fabric > sew a small piece of felt on the back to stabilize the button. > This sounds like a good idea. Anyone tried that? If so, does it help?
I've never used the trick on a hand-knit, but when sewing reinforcements on the backs of other things, I've learned that the easiest way to get stitches centered on a little felt circle is to sew the felt on first and *then* cut it into a circle. The stiffer the felt is, the better. You might try fusing a scrap of heavy-duty interfacing to another piece of heavy-duty interfacing. (Two layers firmly glued together are stiffer than one thick layer.) -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the spring folks were using has dried up -- and the one that makes a mess on the sidewalk didn't. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
