Originally Posted by
manicmike
Put a buttonholer on your wish list while you're looking. Used mine for the first time this morning: Best $12.50 I've spent... well, for a while anyway. Worked much better than I expected, and everything is adjustable! Set it, did a test, put the jeans under and 20 seconds of medium pedal action later, I had a perfect double strength (went around twice) buttonhole!
Buttonholers
are a lot of fun - those old things work better than anything new. Did you clean it and oil it - works even better.