Are you familiar with "Buttonhole Twist"?

[Pleater]

I have a large reel of it in my tin of threads and have used it for many makings and repairs.

It is what I use to attach the straps and buckles on kilts. I usually remove them for washing, and sometimes reuse the thread, as it is usually still sitting by the machine when I have dried the kilts.

I used it to repair bicycle seats on 'chopper' cycles way back when they were all the rage, and more recently started to revamp an antique bowler hat as it is the most appropriate and closest to the original thread used on it.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Andrew Breecher]

Funny, I use it to make buttonholes.

[KD Burke]

Funny, I use it to make buttonholes.

What a novel idea!

[marypenny]

Oh my gosh...a mention from my past. Yes, my paternal grandmother taught me how to make buttonholes by hand using it. Harder than the dickens! I seem to remember she waxed it. Her name was Mary Louvenia but she was known by Louvenia her whole life. She made shirts for the workers in the oilfields on her treadle sewing machine, but had to make the buttonholes by hand. Sold the shirts for $1.75 making a dollar profit on each. Wow, how times change. She taught me how to sew, for which I am very grateful.