How-To: Mend Stretched/Ripped Button Holes

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If you’ve ever had a button hole rip out, stretch, or had to replace a button with a smaller one, you know how frustrating it is when they pop open. It’s particularly embarassing on the front of a blouse! To fix this, just use a simple zigzag stitch either by machine or by hand to make the button hole smaller, as shown. Voila!

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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