Have a Bernina 1008? Use it for your buttonholes!

Buttonholes by hand are time consuming to sew.. but if you have a sewing machine that can sew them for you? Win! Today I’m sharing how to sew a machine button hole, on my Bernina 1008. It’s pretty much the same technique across all manual sewing machines, so should help anyone who’s never made a buttonhole on a sewing machine before!

My Bernina – The mechanical 1008!

I have had this ole’Bernina for YEARS. It’s a second hand version, bought from a college which had done away with it’s fashion and textiles programme. *Insert sad face*

It is a solid machine, but I didn’t bother getting to grips with the button hole feature for quite a few years. Why? ‘Cos I had a man in London’s Berwick Street who did them well, and at a decent price too!

Yet, in the process of creating my old Master Sewing Basics course – which was perfect for absolute beginners by the way – I realised that I would have to know how to sew a machine button hole on my own machine, in order to show others how the process worked. That way they’d be better able to get to grips with how theirs worked.

And so, I learned how to really perfect a machine sewn button hole on my Bernina 1008 and now I do them all the time.