More Buttonholes on a Vintage Kenmore 158.1802 Sewing Machine

[@lillyle153]

thank you Heather its help me a lot I have a vintage sewing machine that I love but never try to do and with your video I learn and will do a button holes I love sewing ❤

[@MyMike509]

Beautiful machine! I have the 158.1410 (1970-71) in a cabinet - wouldn't trade it for the world. Your is (was) definitely the Cadillac of Kenmores! I've never run across an 1802 in all these years, but would covet it if I did! Thanks for the tutorial! Mine operates the same way with a green, smaller buttonhole accessory (fewer buttonhole designs) but I can also use the Kenmore standalone buttonholer - #6739 - comes with 10 buttonhole cams - so fun! Thanks again!

[@jsmxwll]

i've had good luck by using double sided tape when i do button holes. i put it outside the button hole area so the fabric stays with the plate and can't shift. works out pretty well as long as there aren't multiple layers sliding over each other. tailor's tacks usually work to resolving that though.

[@sewcute_sewvintage]

Thank you for this video

[@heatherismakingstuff]

Thank you for watching!

[@sonopoly]

Hi Heather - which buttonholer do you prefer or the two? Thank you!

[@annpeterson7543]

Nice video. I have the Kenmore 1813, which came with most of the Buttonholer stuff - but not the metal plate. While watching your video & thus learning of the need for the metal plate part (which I did not know existed), I found & purchased on eBay another Buttonholer set complete with the plate, which will arrive in a couple of weeks. Which shape on the Template did you use to make the Eyelet ? The set I have & the new set don't show a round one, but do have an ovaly oval & a straighter oval. I'm making clothing for re-enactments which need Eyelets for closures & I've found hand-stitching them difficult, hoping to use the machine & then do some over-stitching by hand.

[@heatherismakingstuff]

This one is the more oval and less oblong of the eyelet shapes. I never realized it before but it's not round either. At 11:00 in the video you can see all the different designs. This one would have been the most round of them, lol. I didn't actually realize the template wasn't round until you pointed it out!