Q&A for How to Sew a Button

For this, you'll need a button backing to secure the front button. This way, when you sew on it all together, the top button will come through the hole easily and it will have more security.

Put a little button on the other side of the fabric then sew the button on. The small button on the opposite side of the button will pull the external button straight outward and keep it neatly in place.

No, not generally. In some cases it could result from gaining weight, but more likely, the thread just came loose because that just happens over time, or it wasn't sewn on very well in the first place.

If it is a 2-holed button, go over 4 times. If it is a 4-holed button, try 4 times for two holes and another 4 times for the second pair.

Don't sew the button tight to the fabric. Leave a "shank" by leaving the stitches loose and placing a large safety pin behind the button parallel with the fabric as you sew. Make sure you use strong thread, such as buttonhole thread. Make many passes with the thread, It will have many strands in the space between the button and the safety pin. Undo the safety pin and remove. Then make one last pass through the fabric to the button side of the fabric and wrap the thread around the thread "shank" repeatedly and finally push the needle through to the inside of the jacket again. Make a secure knot.

Tie a knot on the end.

Try making a few stitches to close the button hole a little tighter. The fabric may have stretched making the holes too big.

Try with a 7" long thread.

After you have tied a knot on the thread, you cut off the extra thread behind the knot.

You can use embroidery floss or, as a temporary emergency measure, dental floss. But thread really is recommended.

The straight pin is just a placeholder to make sure the button is not sewn on too tightly. If left there, it could poke you, and it is also not part of the original design.