My mom has been working on a new winter jacket for a few days now – and ended up not liking how the button holes turned out.  Ah, the joys of working with heavy wool melton!
My DH took a look at what she had done and suggested making a Chinese button knot to close the jacket, instead of a big, chunky button.   By the way, he also found another good tutorial site for making button knots!
But those still weren’t quite right… so check out what it turned into