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Easy Dorset Buttons : Creative Craft Project
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Sep 9, 2024
Maybe you have heard of Dorset buttons or maybe you are just looking for a creative addition to your sewing projects. Whatever you want them for they are a great creative craft project that you will love. If you want help with blanket stitch then check out https://youtu.be/ofnBmni1k4o I will be adding the flower Dorset button tutorial here! If you would love lots of great craft projects then check out my website and subscribe for even more craft projects and great offers on my products and others!
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So let's make dorset buttons. They're just like this. You can make them as buttons or you can make them as hanging decorations
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I'm Christine of Christine's Crafts and I've dedicated my website and my YouTube channel to crafting on a budget
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I've been crafting for years and these are just adorable. So all you're going to need is some sort of ring. It could be wooden, plastic, anything you like
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A needle. I use a blunt one just because why not? You don't need a sharp one
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And some embroidery threads. Now you'll notice I do also have a sharp one which I will use a little bit later and I will show you how
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So that's all you're going to need and it's up to you how many embroidery threads
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Depends how fancy you want your pattern. You could do it all the same colour. Or like this one you could have three different colours
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So let's get started. I'm going to start by doing something called casting
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And it's where we're going to cover the ring. Because we just want it the same colour as the button
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So get a really long piece of your embroidery thread and thread up your needle
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And then place it along the ring. And then we're going to do blanket stitch
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Now I have a video about this and I'm going to link it on the screen and in the description below
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But basically you just keep going round the ring but making sure you go through your loop of thread
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Now the first time you do it, obviously it's not going to form a knot or a stitch
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So you just have a little bit of messing about to do at the beginning
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You can see mine hasn't pulled around fully. So don't worry, just spend a little bit of time until that stitch is just lying there on the outside of your ring
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And you'll see what look like a little row of tiny knots appearing
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And those are your stitches. And you just keep working your way round
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So take that needle through the loop and pull it. And you've got another stitch
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So we're going through the hoop, through the loop and pull it tight
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And you're just going to keep doing that until you're all the way round your hoop
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Now you can see what I'm doing here is trapping in that thread
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So you can leave it as long as you like or you can trim it down a bit so that you get it enclosed
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You don't need loads and loads of it for it to be secure
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And then just keep going. Now obviously you've guessed how much thread
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Because if like me, you've no idea how much you're going to need when you set off
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And it depends on the size of your ring. So I can't even give you any guidance
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So what can happen is that your thread can run out whilst you're on your way round before you get to the other end
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And if that happens, you can deal with it in a very simple way
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Just like you did when you were starting. So I use all my thread up. I'm only three quarters of the way round
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Just thread up a new length. And then lie both of those ends along your hoop
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And start exactly as you did before. And just make sure it's pushed up tightly against the stitches you've already done
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So you can see what I'm doing is trapping both lengths of thread to keep them secure
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Now you might not have to do this if you've got a long enough thread at the start
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But I think it's important for you to know there's no need to panic if your thread runs out
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Because once you get round your loop, you do want quite a bit of thread already attached
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So it can sometimes be a good idea actually if you've run out of thread and got yourself a nice long thread again
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So then just keep going until it's completely covered. And then push the stitches to the back and start forming the spokes
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So you're going to wind it round the back. And then up the front
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And then just move round slightly and repeat. And you keep working your way round
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Now how many times is up to you. You can have as many spokes as you like
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But the more spokes you have, the more intricate the design you can do
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So I don't think to start with you should have more than 10 or 12
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It's really just too tricky. And then once you've got them, just bring your needle up opposite where you finished
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And then back down. So you're forming a little stitch in the centre
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And then come up at 90 degrees and go back down again
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So you'll have formed a little cross just to hold your spokes in place
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Now you're aiming to get that in the centre. If it's not perfectly in the centre, don't panic
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You can do a little bit of pulling. You can see I'm doing it now. A little bit of tweaking
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And then we can start going round our button. So you can see that we've got that and we're going to fill it in
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So we need to bring the needle up between two spokes. Not the one you just went down through or you'll undo your good work
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So just come up and then back down one behind. And then come up two further forward
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Not that first one. The second one. So you're going back to wrap round
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And then you go forward two. And you'll see because I've got quite a short thread now, I'm having a bit of trouble
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So that's why it's really important to have plenty of thread when you get to doing your spokes
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So that you can really get started on going round. So it's back one, forward two
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Back one. And forward two. And that's what you're going to keep doing for the whole button
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But obviously you're not going to do it on one thread. You might want to do stripes and change the colour
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And later on you might want to do fancy designs. But this tutorial is all about keeping it simple
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So the most you're going to do in this tutorial is a stripe. So you can see that rhythm that you're getting into
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Back one. Forward two. Back one. Forward two
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You'll also notice I keep pulling it tight. Just to keep it nice and tight and keep it central
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But then when you run out of thread. So I'm going to use a different colour
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Hence I can introduce a stripe. You just cut yourself a new length
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Thread up your needle. And then tie it at the back of the button
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To the length that you've just run out of. So make sure you do this little knot at the back
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And that it's nice and tight against the back. So you don't pull it through to the front when you set off again
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So nice and simple little knot. Now you can just cut those ends off
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But I'll tell you what I tend to do. Is leave them on
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And do one or maybe two rounds. So that I can trap them in
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Now what you'll see is. Sometimes they pull through. So you want to be careful to not let that happen
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So I'm just going to hook them back. So trap them between your fingers
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So they don't get pulled through. And the reason why you might want to leave them on
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Is so that as you go round. You're going to secure those ends
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So it just means there's a little bit beyond the knot. So your knot is less likely to come undone
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It's all about just making it a little bit more secure. And yes I have sped this up
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Just so that I could show you. Securing those ends. And then cutting those lengths off
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You can see I'm just going to make sure I have secured them. And once they're nicely trapped in
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I can just cut them off. And then I don't have to worry about them anymore
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And then keep going. It's actually a really nice relaxing thing to do
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It's great for decorations. But I have to say I have made them for buttons
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And at the end I will show you. Different ways I've used them
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So I've run out of thread again. So I'm going to change and do another stripe
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So it's just going to be the colour that I did the hoop. So it'll just match in nicely
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Now if you're enjoying this video. Please give me a thumbs up. So it spreads to more people
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And consider subscribing. If you'd like to see some more. I mean another video I'm going to be posting
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Is about how to make a bunch of flowers ones. Which I will show you at the end
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So if you subscribe and turn on notifications. You'll get that. Now you'll see this time
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I'm going to tidy that end up. By feeding it down the back of one of the spokes
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And that's another way. Of clearing up ends. So you can just do little stitches on the back
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And or feed it down the spoke. But obviously you can only do that
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Once you've got something to feed it down through. Which is why I've shown you knotting them on
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And cutting them off. And also now feeding them down the spokes
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So what we've been doing. As we've worked our way round. Is laying the button
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And then we were rounding it. So you can imagine this is called rounding
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Because you're working your way round and round the button. And then once it's complete
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You can do what you like with it. So you can see I've got decorative ones
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And I've got ones there that are hanging on a hoop. So that is a curtain hoop
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This is a set of buttons that are going on a coat. That I'm making
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And I did promise you. I would talk about some different dorset buttons
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That have got flowers on them. And I will be posting a video about that
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So if it's already up it'll be on your screen. But it's these. And I do think they're gorgeous little decorations
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So I will be making one of those. So yep. Please click on your notifications
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So you'll know when that comes live. Or click on it now if it's on the screen
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Enjoy your dorset buttons
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