Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Household Arts/Basic Sewing/25/en

Pass the needle through one of the holes in the button from the back. Then pass it through an adjacent hold from the front. Then insert the needle into the cloth near the point where the stitch was begun. Pull the thread tight, but not too tight. A little slack is desirable so that the button is not held too tightly to the cloth (that makes it hard to use the button). Ideally, the button should be able to pull away from the cloth by about an eighth of an inch. Loop through the cloth and the same two holes in the button half a dozen times or more. Then cross over and stitch through the other two holes (assuming a four-hole button), again making half a dozen or more loops. Finally, pass the needle through the cloth near the button, but do not go through the button hole. Snake the thread out from under the button, and wrap it around the thread several times. Then pass the needle back through the cloth, beneath the button and tie it off.