I make buttonholes for many of the bags that I make and have found most of the built in buttonholes on newer machines just won't handle longer or wider settings that many of my bigger or novelty buttons require. If I want a perfect buttonhole nothing beats my ancient old black buttonholer attachment that I use on my vintage Singer 201. It makes the most perfect buttonholes ever! That very same buttonhole attachment also fit on my Janome 6500 (just lower the feed dogs) as it was a low shank machine. It worked so much better than the buttonhole setting and plastic buttonhole foot they provided.
Last edited by Shelbie; 08-29-2015 at 04:43 AM.