With this tutorial you can easily insert a button facing into a shoulder seam. Especially for baby clothes ist reasonable to insert button facings at the shoulder seam as they have proportional a bigger head. So it’s easier and more confortable to change your kids clothes.
What do you need
• Your sewing pattern
• Your fabric
• Measuring tape or a ruler
• Roller cutter or a pair of scissors
• A piece of cuff fabric or jersey
• Thin fusible interfacing (H 180)
• Snap fasteners for jersey and the corresponding tools
Instructions
1
Cut out all pattern pieces following the pattern instruction, BUT extend the neckline cuff by 2 cm.
2
Additionally you need two pieces of cuff fabric or jersey.
• 2cm by shoulder width or 5cm (strech in direction of 5cm)
• 4cm by shoulder width or 5cm (strech in direction of 5cm)
![dditionally you need two pieces of cuff fabric or jersey.
• 2cm by shoulder width or 5cm (strech in direction of 5cm)
• 4cm by shoulder width or 5cm (strech in direction of 5cm)](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste1-1024x406.jpg)
3
Fuse on both pieces fusible interfacing so the buttons won’t tear out
![use on both pieces fusible interfacing so the buttons won’t tear out](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste2-1024x425.jpg)
4
The button facing is always on the left shoulder. So place your front- and backpiece in front of you facing with the right sides. Now place the 2cm piece on the front shuolder and the 4 cm piece on the back shoulder.
![ides. Now place the 2cm piece on the front shuolder and the 4 cm piece on the back shoulder.](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste3-1024x273.jpg)
5
Initially serge the outer edges of both pieces.
Pin the 2cm piece on the shoulder and sew it on.
![Initially serge the outer edges of both pieces.
Pin the 2cm piece on the shoulder and sew it on.](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste4-1024x296.jpg)
6
Fold in half the 4cm piece and pin it with the open edges on the back shoulder and sew it on.
![Fold in half the 4cm piece and pin it with the open edges on the back shoulder and sew it on.](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste5-1024x330.jpg)
7
Fold both pieces including the seam allowance outward. Place front and backpiece on top of each other facing right sides together.
![Fold both pieces including the seam allowance outward. Place front and backpiece on top of each other facing right sides together.](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste6.jpg)
8
Close this shoulder seam like the red line indicates. Then close the other shoulder seam.
![Now close the shoulder seam like the red line indicates. Then close the other shoulder seam.](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste7.jpg)
9
Fold the 2cm piece along the edge inwards. And the 4cm piece will automatically follow into the frontpiece. Iron the seam allowance into the front piece.
![dge inwards. And the 4cm piece will automatically follow into the frontpiece. Iron the seam allowance into the front piece](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste8-1024x347.jpg)
10
A next step pin the neckline cuff all around the neckline. Fold in the remaining seam allowace at the open edges and sew it on. Sew up the beginning- and the end thread
11
Attach 3 snap fasteners.
![attach 3 snap fasteners.](https://craftarina.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Knopfleiste92-1024x494.jpg)
I hope this tutorial is helpful for you. Here you can also download the tutorial in either english or german: