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How to Knit a Buttonhole
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how to knit buttonholes
hi guys I'm Kristen and today we are going to create
this horizontal slit in our knitting allowing you to insert buttons into your
knitted work however you'd like this is totally customizable for any size
buttons that you have on hand and for this five step process I have written
instructions for you they're linked down in the description below on my website
so let's get started step 1 you want to start on the right side of your work and
knit up to the point where you would like your buttonhole and we are going to
determine the number of knit stitches that you need for your particular button
and just place it on your knitted work and check out the stitches above you
you'll want to have your buttonhole just slightly smaller than the diameter of
your button and for me that's three stitches so I'm going to be
demonstrating a three stitch buttonhole
step two we begin our edge we're going
to bring our yarn to the front and then we just slip one stitch purlwise so
that's just inserting our right needle as if to purl and slip that one stitch
then just take your yarn and bring it to the back oh it's already time for step
three okay step three you're going to begin by
slipping one stitch purlwise and then passing that slip stitch over for the
number of stitches you're creating for it your buttonhole for me that's three
so I've done it once twice and now a third time passing that stitch over and
then your last stitch once you're done right there on your right needle you're
going to just slip it back onto your left needle now we are going to turn our
work so now the wrong side of our work is facing us we're
taking our yarn it's in the back and we're going to do the cable cast on now
if this is new to you I do have a complete video of the cable cast on
method and you are going to repeat this for the number of knit stitches that you
need so again for me I'm doing three stitches but then it's plus one so you
will repeat the cable cast on for the number of stitches that you need plus
one so for me that is going to be a total of four times that I will be doing
the cable cast on and this step four is knitting our top edge of our buttonhole
step 5 finishing the edge so we turn our work
back to the right side and we slip one stitch off our left needle on to the
right needle purlwise and then just pass that slip stitch over right there that
finishes the edge of our button and you are done your stitches are ready for
your buttonhole and on this row you can just keep on knitting as you would and
pattern and if you're doing more buttonholes than just repeat this
process as you go along and you'll see how our button is passing through our
buttonhole and a nice snug tight fit I hope you are inspired to create
buttonholes in your creative knitting projects
thanks so much for watching guys bye
