I need a buttonhole foot for a White 1735. How do I order this?

If the buttonhole lever on your Husqvarna Viking Jade 20 sewing machine is not lowering enough to reach the buttonhole foot, it may be misaligned or not properly adjusted. Here are a few steps you can try to troubleshoot the issue:

1. Check the Buttonhole Foot: Ensure that the buttonhole foot is properly installed and in the correct position. If the foot is not positioned correctly, it may interfere with the buttonhole lever.
2. Check the Buttonhole Lever: Inspect the buttonhole lever for any damage or debris that may be causing it to get stuck or misaligned. Clean the lever and surrounding area with a soft, dry cloth.
3. Adjust the Buttonhole Lever: You may need to adjust the position of the buttonhole lever to ensure that it aligns with the buttonhole foot. Refer to your sewing machine's manual for instructions on how to adjust the buttonhole lever.
4. Contact a Professional: If you are still experiencing issues with the buttonhole lever, it may be best to contact a professional sewing machine repair technician who can diagnose and fix the issue.

It's possible that other users may have experienced a similar issue with the buttonhole lever on the Husqvarna Viking Jade 20 sewing machine. You may want to search online forums or communities dedicated to sewing and sewing machine repairs to see if there are any helpful tips or solutions.

I don't see any reason to use a walking foot for sewing a buttonhole. The purpose of a walking foot is to move the top and bottom fabrics together. Feed dogs sometimes tend to move the lower fabric faster than the top fabric--a walking foot helps prevent that.

If you don't have a buttonhole foot for your machine, you can still stitch a buttonhole using a different presser foot.

How to sew buttonhole with an old machine

How to Sew Buttonholes with Regular Foot Sewing Tutorial with Alison Smith

Sewing Buttonholes Without Buttonhole Foot

Sew Buttonhole without Buttonhole Foot by Create Kids Couture

The method will depend on your make & model machine, although the vintage sewing machine buttonhole method will work on all zig-zag machines (just requires manually measuring and adjusting the stitch length & width during the process):

How to Use an Automatic Buttonhole Foot

Sew Buttonhole in 4 Steps on your Singer Sewing Machine

Sewing Buttonholes Without Buttonhole Foot

How to Sew Buttonholes with Regular Foot Sewing Tutorial with Alison Smith

How to sew buttonhole with an old machine

How to Sew Button hole tutorial

Sew Buttonhole without Buttonhole Foot by Create Kids Couture

Be sure there is a stabilizer between the fabric where the buttonhole is located so the fabric will not stretch or tear.

Slide the back of the buttonhole foot "R" open, place your button in the cradle and slide the fott together so it holds the button.
Snap on the buttonhole foot on the machine. Pull down the buttonhole lever. It has a small white plastic paddle on the end and is located up and to the left of the needle bar. Pull the lever all the way down. Turn the pattern selector to Buttonhole. Place the tension on 3. Place the stitch width control on 5 or 6. Place the stitch length control a little below 1. Make sure that you have some stabilizer between the layers of fabric. Use freezer paper in a pinch. Lower the foot on your fabric making sure that the foot is not pulled forward or backward. Make a test buttonhole. AFTER EACH BUTTONHOLE YOU MUST TURN THE PATTERN SELECTOR OFF BUTTONHOLE AND BACK ON IN ORDER TO RESET THE MECHANISM. Make several test buttonholes, adjusting the width and length if needed.

Is there a little arm you need to pull down behind the presser foot? And a buttonhole foot that needs to go onto the machine?

Do you have a manual for it to check out the buttonhole procedure? try this link
http://www.singerco.com/resources/buttonhole.html for some instructions and images but always good to have the machines manual if you can get one.

Many of the machines with the one step buttonhole function have a white plastic slide type foot and the buttonhole lever that you pull down. You put a button into a clip at the back of the foot to "measure" the buttonhole length. Then start sewing, the machine will do a bartack, then start backwards, the pulldown lever will then connect with the foot when it gets to the right length, start the end bartack, then reverse back up the other side of the buttonhole and finish off when it comes back to the start of the foot.

The Singer will probably be some variation of this system, hope this helps.

Automatic BUTTONHOLE making with 979:

1. Carefully mark the position of buttonhole on your garment.
2. Slide the button carrier and insert the button.
3. Attach the buttonhole foot.
4. Place the garment under the foot so that the needle pierces the fabric at the beginning of buttonhole.
5. Lower the buttonhole lever and the presser foot lever.
6. Push the buttonhole lever away from you.
7. Start machine to complete entire buttonhole.

NOTE:

• While making buttonholes, maintain an even sewing speed for uniform buttonholes.
• When buttonholes are completed, be sure to push up the buttonhole lever as gar as it can go.

The main types of feet are:
1. ZigZag foot. This has a wide gap for the needle to move from side to side and the two pointy ends of the feet curve upwards. This is used for ZigZag and decorative stitches,
2. Straight Stitch foot. This has a small round gap and one side is usually wider than the other. It's used for straight stitching.
3. Rolled-Hem foot. This has a spiral in the middle and is used for rolling and sewing hems neatly.
4. Zipper Foot. This has no gap as the needle goes to one side or the other of the foot. It usually has two attachment points for snapping on to the shank, depending on which side of the zipper you are sewing.
5. Invisble Hem foot. Used for making invisible hems. It's hard to describe how it looks. Mine has extra white plastic parts around it and some kind of screw to make adjustments as to width etc.
6. Buttonhole foot. My buttonhole foot is white and has numbers along one edge. The size of the buttonhole can be altered, using the numbers as a guide.
7. Edging foot. This has a strip of springy metal on the left side and is used to guide the material into the path of the needle in order to sew close to the edge to prevent fraying.
8. Rolling foot. This has rollers and is useful for sewing thicker materials or quilts etc. It is similar, but not as good as a walking foot.
9. You might also have a Teflon ZigZag foot, it's the same as the zigzag foot but made of white plastic. It's used for sewing vinyl and leather materials.
I think that's it, hope this helps!

From what I could find, this machine has a one-step buttonhole feature.

I found these instructions for a Singer one-step that may be of help - http://www.singerco.com/resources/buttonhole.html

These are the exact instructions from the Manual. 1. Select one of buttonhole patterns.
2. Replace the presser foot with the buttonhole foot. (Install presser foot with little red mark towards the front)
3. Insert the button into the buttonhole foot. (the part located in the back crescent shaped)
4. Lower the buttonhole lever (to the left of the needle) so that it drops down vertically between the stoppers A and B.
5. Carefully mark the position of buttonhole on your garment.
6. Place the fabric under the foot. Pull out the bobbin thread underneath the fabric to a length of about 4 inches to the rear.
7. Align the buttonhole mark on the fabric with the mark on the buttonhole foot, and then lower the buttonhole foot.
8. While holding the top thread, start the machine.
*Sewing will be completed automatically.
9. When sewing is finished, use a buttonhole opener to open up the frabric in the center of the buttonhole. Be careful not to cut anyt of the seam thread.
I hope this helps.

Hi, I had the same problem, but I finally found my manual. The solution is that you have to use the presser foot for buttonholes but the most important part is that you have to lower the buttonholer lever. It is located right next to the needle to the left. It is a metal lever with a little square white plastic end. You need to pull that down in order the the buttonhole feature to work. My button was too big for the buttonhole presser foot, so I had to use the regular presser foot, but hit the buttonhole lever with my had to make it go up or down.