Once it catches and youвЂ™re sure itвЂ™s going in straight, hammer it in until itвЂ™s fully locked. With your hammer, give the button back a few light thumps. Try to keep this as straight as possible. Line up the button back post into the button hole. Now, on your spare piece of wood, place the button with the hole facing up, and turn your jeans over. Push the button back through the hole you made. You can use a hammer and nail, but I prefer using an awl. You now want to make a hole in the waistband where you marked the button location. No sense in centering it unless you want to give yourself a little breathing room at the waist. I always place the button on the left side of the buttonhole like you see below. Do up your zipper and use a pencil to mark the location of the button. I highly suggest you practice on a scrap before going at your final jeans (hence why we are including an extra button in the Ginger Jeans denim kits). In the photo below, the solid posts are in silver.ДЇirst up is the button. I prefer rivets with solid metal posts because they are easier to trim down to size. As for rivets, they generally come with a solid or hollow post. Some buttons have hollow plastic bases which I just donвЂ™t think are as strong over time. As I said, itвЂ™s better when possible to get all metal buttons and rivets. A sheet of strong metal like steel or a cast iron frying pan вЂ“ you need something that wonвЂ™t dent when you hammer in your rivetsД¬heck out my post on sourcing supplies if you need help finding rivets and buttons.A jeans button (again, practice with an extra one first!).Metal rivets (get a few extra to practice with).Now, on to the final step which will take your jeans from вЂњI made theseвЂќ to вЂњI FRIGGING MADE THESE!вЂќ While you can use a regular button for your jeans, and skip the rivets all together, nothing really pulls this project together like a hammer and some brute force. ItвЂ™s going to be hella fun and IвЂ™m happy to lovingly hold your hand in person. If youвЂ™ve been following along but are still unsure about this whole jeans making thing, you may want to look into taking an intensive Ginger workshop with me at next fallвЂ™s Camp Workroom Social. You can also email me your blog posts or link to them in the comments. Please be sure to upload your finished or progress pics to the Flickr page if youвЂ™d like to be included in the giveaway, or use the hashtag #gingerjeans on Instagram. ItвЂ™s been fun, hasnвЂ™t it? Making jeans is the best.ДЄ few pieces of business before we proceed with the last step. the final post in our rather epic Ginger Sewalong series! I worried at times that IвЂ™ve been guilty of information overload but I hope IвЂ™ve helped to demystify the jeans making process for you. Understanding the ligne measurement system is very important in the garment industry, as the wrong button size can lead to faulty products.Д«y following the calculation we have shared above, you can easily convert any button diameter from inch or millimeter into ligne.AhhhhвЂ¦. While button ligne might sound complicated at first, calculating it is actually fairly simple. Remarks: Please refer to the image below for theВ correct measurement of button/buckle diameter. Standard Button Size Measurement Chart Ligne The table below lists the various common conversion between ligne and inch/millimeter. To calculate button size in ligne, simply divide the diameter of the button (in millimeters) by 0.635.ДЇor example, if your button diameter is 18mm, the calculation becomes: To calculate button ligne, all we need to do is to convert it into millimeters or inches.ДЄs the standard, 40 ligne or 40L equals 1 inch or 25 milimiters. While measuring ligne unit might not be familiar to the most of us, we are all familiar with the modern metric system in meter or inch. If you ever encounter 10L in a button, that means 10 ligne, an equal of 1/4 inch in diameter. Ligne is a French word meaning вЂњlineвЂќ, and button ligne as a measurement system for button size was first used by German button manufacturers in the 9th century, although it finally became the standard measurement much later by the 18th century. Let us begin by discussing a brief history of the ligne itself. So understanding it will be very important for garment manufacturers and merchandisers. Button ligne as a measurement system for button size is still retained today. How did garment makers back then measure button sizes? The answer is button ligne, which is the topic of our discussion today. The modern buttons as a fastening system we know today were introduced in the 13th century, far before the invention of the standardized metric system in the 1700s.

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