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How to use buttonhole in a sentence

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If you're making a very large button, the buttonhole may need more stabilization than usual.
But they have as much and as little to do with gardens as a buttonhole or a bridal bouquet.
The campaign centres on the sale of silk buttonhole daffodils and bunches of fresh daffodils by over 5,000 volunteers countrywide.
Stitch the buttonhole as usual, removing any basting stitches when finished.
If your buttonholes tend to fray, place a dab of fray retardant on the back of the buttonhole.
Although the bar tack is frequently the buttonhole of choice, many machines can make rounded and keyhole buttonholes, as well as eyelets.
Arrange the flowers in a cascade from the right front shoulder seam down the center front, working around the buttonhole.
Attach a heavier than normal interfacing scrap on the garment wrong side before constructing the buttonhole.
The correct length of a buttonhole is determined by the diameter, thickness and type of button used.
To stabilize a buttonhole, cord it with buttonhole twist, gimp or elastic thread.
I could make thread shanks with buttonhole stitch as well as complete a neat French seam.
His absolute determination to buttonhole me and then to pin me to the wall with his face close to mine to pour out his inanities was a frequent experience from which there seemed for me no escape.
We're living in an era of CCTV cameras, buttonhole microphones and pornographically long camera lenses.
Just before slipping into the back seat of the car, gardener Tom would pick a flower for his boss' buttonhole.
Both children received a special cup, as well as a posy of flowers for the princess and a buttonhole for the prince.
The bride's choice of bouquet and the bridegroom's buttonhole are made from fresh flowers.
As for the hired morning suit complete with cravat and matching buttonhole, alas, there was nothing I could have done about that.
The trousers have a buttonhole fly with protective flap, adjustable straps at waist and leg hem drawcords.
Sew a decorative button or bead on one end and create a thread loop covered with yarn buttonhole stitches on the opposite end.
Bring the point of the seam ripper up through the fabric in the center of the buttonhole and cut only to the center.
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He had on, as if for an occasion, a new coat with a flower in the buttonhole, a chrysanthemum.
This, in cleaning or washing, contracts and leaves the buttonhole edging, and in a few cleanings it is a mass of unmendable rags.
As we passed through to supper, I plucked a spray of yellow banksia rose, and put it in my buttonhole.
The round corners are worked in the same buttonhole stitch, only it is twice the depth of the buttonholing along the two edges.
But none of them got into a flowerpot, and still less into a gentleman's buttonhole.
He was like the anarchist with a gardenia in his buttonhole who figures in the higher melodrama.
I stopped and gathered a handful and stuck them in my buttonhole and under my hatband.
He wore pearl-gray trousers, a tailed coat, and had a pink in his buttonhole.
He arranged his buttonhole of Parma violets, then looked up at her, smiling.
He was cool and jaunty, his hands in his pockets, a rose in his buttonhole.
On this occasion he strolled away from his companion to pluck a sprig of almond blossom, which he carefully arranged in his buttonhole.
He pulled it out of his buttonhole and tossed it into the fire-place.
Arthur had a fine rose in his buttonhole and looked profoundly thoughtful.
In his mouth was a cigarette, and in his buttonhole a pink carnation.
Let him go with his flower in his buttonhole and dance somewhere else.
Once he stooped to pick a flower which he stuck in his buttonhole.
A pink carnation in his buttonhole matched his healthy complexion.
The fellow is to wear a white top hat, and a gardenia in his buttonhole.
If you like to wear a bit of red ribbon in your buttonhole, why, do so.
The Prince had a rosette of the Legion of Honour in his buttonhole.
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