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Instructions
Determine the placement of your snap closure. If you're working from a sewing pattern, the pattern instructions will tell you where to place the snap.
Thread a sewing needle and knot the thread end.
Apply the ball portion of the snap to the inside hemmed edge of the fabric layer that will overlap the other.
Hold the ball portion of the snap in place, and bring the threaded needle down through one of the holes along the outer edge of the snap.
Keep the needle in between the outer layer of fabric and the layer of fabric the snap is being applied to. This will keep your stitching invisible from the right side of the garment.
Bring your needle up again along the outer edge of the snap next to the same hole you took your first stitch through, and bring the needle down again through that same hole.
Take five or six like stitches through the same hole.
Repeat steps 4 to 7 for each hole that borders the snap.
Move from one hole to the next by slipping your needle through the two fabric layers.
Secure your stitching by making a tiny knot close to the last series of stitches.
Rub tailor's chalk along the ball of the snap, and overlap the edges of the garment as they will be when the garment is completed.
Press down on the ball firmly so that a chalk mark is transferred to the underlying layer of fabric. This marks the placement of the socket portion of the snap.
Center the socket portion of the snap over the chalk mark and hold it in place. Repeat steps 5 to 10 for sewing on this portion of the snap.