Fixing a Popped Button for FREE!
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- Kevin Kennedy began training with European masters as a young lad of 17. For 42 years, he has been an Upholsterer for countless Boston area designers and leading art restorers, including consulting with and heading the upholstery department at Trefler and Sons, in Newton, MA. Commissioned to upholster Napoleon's chair, and guest writer to the Upholstery Journal. His most successful venture yet, his studio in Arlington, Ma , Upholstery on Broadway, has been open since 2010.
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For a year I lived with my broken button couch!!! It was so annoying... I watched your video and I was able to fix it! How grateful I am man,, god bless!
Life saver! This is my first CZcams commentary. I had a tufted button loose on our family sofa for 7 years! I hate it and even contemplated buying another sofa. Finally found the courage to fix myself. I used the DIY substitute German needle. Thank you so much! I got my sofa back!!!❤❤❤
I really really love the video. I love how much effort and thought you put in to make it cost-friendly for everybody!
Great tip, but the tufting was present in your video and all that needed to be done was re-attach the button. What do you do if the fabric popped out, too? My daughter just inherited a new sofa and one of the tufts is out (with the button still attached to the fabric). 😔
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Thank you! I love the DIY German needle! You’re the best. Totally worked for a beautiful leather mid-century task chair. You saved me from making a huge mistake on how I was going to try and sew the button back on! It would have made it worse! Brilliant!
Thank you for the expert advice! Attached a button to our tufted coffee table that was off for 5+ yrs!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
This is great. Thank you so much. I bought a couch used and thought I got a great deal. When I got home, it wasn’t long until I realized a button had been popped.
Perfect! I especially appreciate the home made tool idea as I only wish to change out buttons on a stick piece to make it look more custom.
Great idea, I tried with the washer but could not get it to hold. But you got me thinking... I took a white plastic drywall anchor, drilled a hole through the middle for the string and sharpened the point. I screwed this into the back of the couch stuffing through the hole and it held! Happy dance! Thanks for helping me solve how to fix.
Aw man this worked so much better. “Plastic wall anchors”. That thing actually stuck inside when you pull the thread.
Thank you for this video. I was able to fix my bench after a button fell off with a bent washer and Kevlar thread. Also thank you for your other slip knot video!
Good upholstery work I like 👍 because I am also sofamaker upholsterer
Great fix, I used a small paper clip.
Brilliant! My partner, an engineer, was skeptical but it worked like a charm. Thanks!
Thank you for this video. We've had our chesterfield for about a year and a button already popped on it. Glad to have a DIY method in order to fix it quickly, easily, and inexpensively.
I used a modification on your technique on an inexpensive chair that my daughter really loves. The button was dangling loose so I cut the thread holding it only to find out that the backing was too thin to hold the washer (kind of like cotton balls thickness.) So, I found a piece of dowel about 3 inches long and drilled a hole in the middle. I threaded the nylon twine thru the hole and pushed the dowel into the hole past the backing so it would turn sideways. Then I just followed your slipknot process and it worked fine. Thanks for the inspiration!
I have the same issue on my new $5000 leather sofa. I need some bite to pull the tufting back in.
Thank you so very much, unbelievable timing! Keep up the great work. I so wish I lived close to you so I could take classes live rather than being here in Australia. When are the online classes coming? Soon I hope. 🙏
You sir, are forever in my prayers!! Thank you 🙏🏻
I just tried your hack with the washer and pliers and it worked like a charm! Thanks
WOW, thank you, I've just bought a secondhand sofa with 2 loose buttons, I'm now on the case!
I did it! I did it’s I did it! I can’t thank you enough!!
Never too old to learn a new trick! I will be trying out your tip for fixing my BUTTON! Thanks for your time in making a video never know when or where someone might need to view it...
Omg he is my doppelgänger and I’m an upholsterer too.
Great tip but how do you fix a button that has pulled inside the couch and the tufting has been released?
That's my exact question.
has anybody found this solution ?
That’s in graduate school upholstery 🤷🏻♂️
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I am also interested in this issue
Thanks for sharing your invented technique! Very helpful!
Thank you!
I was given a very nice chair from my mother and a button came off.
That was so very helpful!! Thank you so much! So kind of you to share your upholstery hack!
Oh thank you so much
Genius. Just fixed a button on my couch with this method.
Por fin alguien que da una solución al problema de volver a colocar un botón de tapicería sin el artefacto imposible de conseguir. Señor muchísimas gracias.
Great video. I need to do this on my eames lounge chair and ottoman. One button popped on each piece. Ive got the needle, clasps and twine. But did you ever make the slipknot tutorial video you referred to?
Did this work? Just popped a button on my eames chair. It's the part you sit on unfortunately
@@ianbarrett7869 Ha! Thanks for the reminder. Still on the to-do list unfortunately. But I've just noticed the slipknot tutorial video here, so maybe I'll try it this weekend. Will be sure to update and let you know how it goes. Just hope I can find the buttons in my bottom drawer!
Please do!
Okay, so I've done the popped button on the ottoman. It's somewhat loose though. The main problem is that the clasp has nothing to anchor behind. I inserted it as deep as the tufting needle would go, but when I pull on the thread it just brings the clasp to the surface. So the clasp is anchored directly behind the leather rather than deep in the stuffing. Seems I'll be unable to restore it to that punched look. I'm open to any tips from anyone.
Thank you sir❤
Love that you’ve shared such a handy tip. Thank you
That black chair is 😍
Fantastic instructions! Thank you so much.
You are a life saver. Thank you so much You are exceptional.
Thanks! True master of your craft sir
My chair is leather. Will it pull it in tightly to match the others?
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your washer idea, sadly when I tried this the washer came straight back out😞
Thanks very much for the technical knowhow. Please add something on the selection and sizes of twine.
How do you bend the washer?
I love this video, but I was wondering, how would you fix a button that was still connected by the strings to the sofa that was slightly popped out of the tufting?
I have a question for you. I have a nice couch, but two buttons the fabric has popped around button but button is still attached inside. Is there a way to repair that.
Thank you 🦋
Hi! I have a sofa that the tufts are still in place but the stitching on diagonal leading to the tuft has unraveled. Any tips?
Genius! Thank you ☘️
Thank you bro, for your ideas, am from the ZANZIBAR ISLANDS, TANZANIA EAST AFRICA
How do you do the back of a solid chair tufting thanks
Thank you
Very creative work-around, thanks for the great tip!!
Youre a legend!! Thank you!
Wow you're a legend - thank you ♡
Wow! Brilliant. Thanks so much.
Thank you. I just fixed flat uncomfortable sofa cushions using stuffing from throw cushions how you showed us and stitching up a torn zip. The corners & edges do make a big difference. I still hate the ugly brown sofa but it’s been saved from landfill for another year until I can get a better one and it’s comfy now.
You’re awesome!! Thank you
Changed my life 💓 thank you
thank you, thank you, Thank You!!
Where can you purchase a tufting needle?
Thank you so much! I'm looking forward to fixing my popped bottons!
How do you bend a washer without all the fancy tools?
THANK YOU so much!!!
I watched this video and it looks like it will work great for my project. I have one question. Is this only for replacing the button or will this create the tuft as well. I recently purchased a chair which needs a button and tuft repaired.
Well done. You just saved my ottoman from the fire.
My button has fallen through into the sofa..is there a way to fix this? Thank you!!
I have a question 🤔⁉️ I'm trying to repair a popped cushion but it doesn't have buttons it was just sewn in like one with just thread and I'm guessing a knot? Should I send you a picture? 🤔🤷
Thank you so much for sharing this!!
THANK YOU! You are the best. You just saved me $1500.00 So helpful. Trefler's will forever have my business.
Great tip! Thanks for all the information you so selflessly share. God bless 🙏
Thanks for the home remedy idea!
When you talk about a "German needle" are you referring to a C.S.Osborne #417 tufting needle? The 417 is a device that places a small metal clasp with a cord attached behind all the webbing?
They sound like the same thing just different names in different areas, I assume.
I have a sofa that appears to have snap together buttons. The top part of the button popped off and the back side is still tufted to the sofa. Is there a way to re-attach the top part of button? I can't find anything showing this. Thank you!
Great invention that saves thousands of dollars indeed
Would STRONG FISHING LINE work in place of string in TUFTING REPAIR?
Thank you very much!
My bent washer keeps pulling right back out of the hole. What am I doing wrong? What is the secret to getting it to lodge in place so that I can tighten the button onto it?
My sofa’s buttons don’t have a metal loop on the other side instead it’s got 2 metal strips that hooks up on something inside the sofa. Any ideas how to fix that kind of button?
Cool tip, guna try it, thank you!
Around the button itself is becoming unsewn making it loose. How does one fix the unsewn seam?
Would this work on a leather couch? My button is still attached but it keeps popping off.
How do you clean velvet ?
Thanks a million... you saved me lots of $$$.
Brilliant, thank you
awesome!
You just saved me 50 British pounds for a sofa referb call out! Thank you!
Just repaired my chair with a washer and some twine😃 thx!!
How did u bend the steel washer?
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In a vice
What holds the washer inside the sofa?
Does this work for button that has come out of a bed mattress?
How is the slip not tied ? Do you have a video on tying it ?
How to Tie a Slip knot
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Thank you.. Helped :-)
3:47 for home remedy. You need a washer,twine,pliers and the button.
Exelente
Thank you!