Making Projects Pop With the Closed Buttonhole Stitch

If you're looking for a way to make your fabric edges look a bit more polished, the closed buttonhole stitch is a fantastic technique to keep in your back pocket. It's one of those stitches that looks way more complicated than it actually is, which is always a win in my book. Most of us start out with the basic blanket stitch or the standard buttonhole version, but the closed variation adds this cool, geometric "V" shape that really changes the texture of whatever you're working on. ...

February 16, 2026 · 7 min · Sfakianos Sadd