Monday, February 27, 2012

Start Your Home Business by Making Covered Buttons

If you ever think about to start a home business or in other words if you want to start your business at home then their are lots of verity here but one of very creative and innovative is making fabric covered buttons. Creating covered buttons is very easy and enjoyable work. Once you know how these buttons are created you start loving of making them. What so ever it is small level business but it make money while doing so.

To make covered buttons you require button blanks, button making machine, good paper stock for buttons.
You will need a few things to start. First of all you require buttons blanks. Button blanks are small metallic forms that may or may not have a pin backing since some buttons have no pin. This is because they can be connected to clothing with a magnet to prevent having to drone a hole through cloths. The button blanks are used to hold the image, which is glued using a button making machine. After button blanks now you required a button making machine. There are many options to select from manual and automatic. For example a simple hand-operated button making machine can help you to create a button in few minutes including time to cut the image template while some semi-automated machines speed up the process and create hundred of buttons in an hour.

Lastly you will need the right paper for your buttons. The most commonly used paper is of 24lb weight. Whether to use expensive or heavier paper it is better to use the lighter paper because the use of heavier paper jam your button making machine. The choice in paper also depends on the recommendations of your button machine's instructions. So be sure to read instructions carefully. Also from the button blanks, a button making machine and some paper,these are really not a lot to create it. These resources can be found promptly online and are easy to work with. Most button machines have specific instructions on how to create a button using that particular machine.
As a simple hobby it is easy enough to spend in less expensive equipments and just have entertainment in creating covered buttons for your friends and family. But if you want to turn button making into a business it might be recommended to take training with inexpensive equipment until you become knowledgeable about how to create buttons quickly and then upgrade to an automated solution. In some cases, clients can pay 1-2 dollars per button. So it is fantastic to earn 200 dollars per hour for creating buttons. Even if it is just a simple, fun hobby, creating your own covered buttons can be a marvelous, fun way to get inventive and let your creativity go chaotic and esthetic. As well as you are making covered buttons you can also make covered belts at home and increase your business.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Tips to Make Covered Button at Home

Fabric covered buttons are used to accessorized the clothes and other items such as shoes, purse etc. It is now become the trend to use fabric covered buttons in number of items. Many embroidery shops start using the fabric covered button including custom buttons. To make fabric covered buttons they used the button making machine that provide various kind of buttons of different style and design. If you want to make fabric covered button at home you need to purchase few things for this.

To make a fabric covered button the first step is the selection of right fabric to decorate your button. The design of fabric is attractive and the color should be bright so that it attracts everyone and give the different look to your cloth and other item that you want to decorate with covered buttons. To select fabric you should need to go to art and craft shops. Here you can find all type of fabric that you want to decorate your buttons. Some popular designer's fabrics are also available in these art and craft shops. You can purchase that designer fabric to make your button trendy and impress any one. With the selection of designer fabric you should also check the thickness of fabric. Fabric should not be too thick or not thin.

After selecting the fabric for your buttons purchase a button kit. This button kit contains buttons whose bottom part is for the buttons to fit into and the smaller piece that squish the button down. You can purchase this button kit from the embroidery store. Place the fabric upside down in the base piece. Squish the button top into their. Squish all the fabric down so that your bottom piece of button can be placed on top. Then take smaller piece of plastic and push down onto the button so that it looks like that everything get seal. Pop out the button from it and you get the trendy fabric covered buttons. If making fabric covered is your hobby and you want to make it your business then you need a button making machine for it. With the use of button maker machine you can create buttons on large scale.

You can also create fabric covered belts for you at home for your party wear. These covered belts enhances your personality and gives you fabulous look. To make covered belts at home you need few things and few hours and you get a trendy belt. Wear the dress that is accessorized with the fabric covered buttons that you make previous and with covered belts and get attention of everyone

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Making Covered Belts at Home

Covered belts are very fashionable and voguish accessories. You can find these types of covered belts in fashion boutiques, fashion stores and online shopping websites. But these belts are little costlier than other type of belts. So if you want to save money you can make these covered belts at home. For this you need some few things to make your fabric covered belts and look gorgeous.

To make fabric covered belts you required belting material. Belting material is an ideal material for making belt because it is very strong like belt you bought from store. If you don't find belting material you can also used stiff interfacing instead of it. You can purchase it from fabric stores. The another materials you required are buckle kit or buckle, fabric, paper and measuring tape.

First of all measure the width of your waist or the place where you want to wear the belt with your coordinating dress. Add some inches in the measuring result because it will pass through the buckle. When you get your measurement that you want, cut the belting material or interfacing of that length. On a piece of paper, draw the length of the belt and add 1 into it. Double the width of the belting and add 1 1/2″ for seem allowance. After all the measurement finish drawing the belt pattern piece. Now cut the fabric with the piece that you make. Fold the fabric in half and sew it upto its length. Press the seem allowance but make sure that it is in the middle of the belt. Sew this seem allowance and pull to the right side. Insert the belting material. Press the belting. After this add the buckle in it. . To add the buckle, fold the extra bit of fabric at the end of the belt through the buckle. Pin the fabric in that place. After this sew the that extra bit fabric by folding the edge under the fabric.

You can also make fabric covered buttons at home to make your dress more fashionable. Choose right fabric for your button to decorate it. You can purchase it from any art and craft shops. You can also take fabric from fabric designer because with decorative fabric from a popular designer you can make designer fabric covered button and impress anyone. The other thing need to remember while purchasing fabric for buttons is to check the thickness of fabric. Fabric should not be too thick or thin. After purchasing fabric use button maker machine to make fabric covered buttons. You can also use covered buttons to accessorizes other things such as pocket mirrors, keychains, ponytail holders, pinback buttons, shoe charms, and necklaces

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Creating Covered Buttons at Home

covered buttons in modern days have new definition and new look. It provide variation to garments and give the unique look to it. Normally covered buttons are used for the basic purpose of stitching and sewing. But now it become an inbuilt part of advertising also. When and how it happen is interesting to know. The market is changing very fast and this has led to many unusual but effective changes.



Earlier covered buttons were the core component of every garment or accessory. Even today every modern dressing need their presence because it enhance the look of the garments and add wonderful grace and style into clothes and give unique look to wearer. They are used for the purpose of decorations in clothes, whether casual or formal. As the time pass, new changes are occurring and giving great surprises to the clients. With the help of technology designer covered buttons can be created and as a result new version of clothes can also be created. Covered buttons produces great appeals that add a touch of integrity and personalization to the garment.



If you want to start your home business, you can start from creating fabric covered buttons at home. Creating fabric covered buttons at home is very easy. You just need few things to create fabric covered buttons such as button blanks, button making machine and good paper stock for buttons. First you need button blank. Button blanks are the metallic part that have no pin backing. They are used to hold the image of button which is affixed using button making machine. You will also need button making machine to create buttons. A simple hand operated button machine can created button in few minutes and a semi automated machine can create 200-300 buttons in one hour. After this you need paper for your buttons. The commonly accepted paper is the 24lb in weight. But in actual the selection of paper is depend upon your machine's instructions because some machine required thick material of paper and someone require thin material. With the use of these papers you can create designer covered buttons according to your requirements.



If you are creating covered button as hobby then you use less expensive equipments. But if you want to change button making into business you need to purchase expensive equipments and to do practice on how to create covered buttons on commercial purpose. After this you can start your own business of covered buttons. You can also start the business of invisible mending of clothes. It helps to increase your customer and business because people don't want to throw away their favorite and expensive dresses that are burnt or caught due to their small mistakes. With the invisible mending they get their clothes in the same condition because with invisible mending the repair could not be seen through naked eye.