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Stop Ruining Buttonholes: 3 Test First Methods for Beginners For most garment sewing, the one-step automatic buttonhole on your machine is the fastest, most reliable route. Save hand-sewn buttonholes for couture finishes, thick coats, or fabric your machine can’t chew through cleanly. Before either method, the one step that saves you from a ruined garment is this: stabilize the area with interfacing and sew a full test buttonhole on a matching scrap first. TL;DR: Always stabilize the fabric with matching interfacing or stabilizer before sewing buttonholes to prevent puckering, stretching, …