 Hi you guys! Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. All right you guys! So you saw my mixed gingham dress and as you know it has snaps all the way down the center front. So for today's Tuesday toot, I thought that I would show you guys how to install the snaps because it can be a little bit tricky. They do provide this lovely illustration here with some you know itemized instructions but it's still hard to make heads or tails of what's going on here. So I thought if you had a visual that you could refer to any time then you would be more inclined to use the snaps and I really love them. So if you don't know this is what we're going for. We have a snap here and it attaches and that's what holds it closed. So here are the things that you will need. So obviously you need your garment. You need the pattern piece that has where the buttonholes are supposed to go. This can either be a separate little strip like this or it may be already attached to your center front bodice pieces. So look for that. You also need a hammer, a single pin. You need a pencil. Well more importantly you need the eraser end of a pencil and you need your snaps as well as a snap setting tool which looks like this. So we're gonna talk about snaps and snap setting tools here really quickly and I'm gonna try to not get enraged by the fact that there are many sizes of snaps and many sizes of snap setting tools and for every size snap you have you must have a separate snap setting tool. It's really annoying but I wanted to show you. Here are just a few of the different snap setting tools that I have and none of them work for the snaps that I have picked out but to find the tool that you need more often than not they I say that that's probably not even true for the snaps that I bought it says right here for applying 981 heavy duty snaps and then the snap packaging set that's for something else the snap packaging said heavy duty snap fasteners require setting tool 981T so you know that these two things go together so when you go to purchase the snaps for your garment just make sure you have the right setting tool otherwise you'll go back to your sewing room and be unable to finish the product project because you literally you cannot use anything else other than the tool it suggests if you do uh I don't know somehow miraculously it doesn't work and I don't know why it's really really annoying but so yeah just make sure that you have the snaps and the tools that go together okay so the first step after you've gotten all of your supplies together is to take your garment and more often than not whenever I'm doing a button band I will wait till the very end to even apply the or transfer the markings for the buttons the main reason is because I want to try this on and I want to make sure that there is a snap or a button that's going across my bust apex that's going to make sure that it's going to keep it nice and closed uh in the area where it is most important and there won't be any gaping so what I did was is I tried this on and uh closed up the band and put a pin in where that goes and then that was right here so then I took my pattern piece for my button band and I lined up the fold line with the outer edge of the garment I did a better job that I'm going to be able to do on this video but you want to make sure that it's nice and even and then I took this uh third button hole and moved it down to where the center of that pin was completely ignoring the seam allowance that is on the top edge of the garment you're supposed to to line up the top edge with the seam allowance little dots these little dots are 5 eighths of an inch down you're supposed to put it here but if I put it there if I put it where it was supposed to go like that I would be off by I don't know what is that quarter of an inch maybe three eighths of an inch which doesn't seem like much but I don't know I just wanted it to be right where I knew the center of the bust was so I put a little dot there and then I used the rest of the button band to mark where the rest of the dots go only on the right hand side of the garment the left hand side we will get to in a moment and I'll show you how I find out where those uh snaps go so that everything closes up perfectly and still remains aligned so go ahead and make all of your markings and then once you've done that get out the four pieces of your snaps so you were going to have I'm going to try and use the terms that they use while showing you what they are so this is called a decorative prong and it's the one that's like finished what you're going to see on the outside then you have a socket and the socket is this guy looks like a donut and you're going to put it and I'll show you this as we as I demonstrated but this is the right side of the socket and this is the wrong side so and then you have your prong this is called a prong and then finally this one is called a stud and I have a really x-rated way of remembering why this is called a stud so use your imagination and then you need your uh snap setting tool your single pin your pencil and your hammer okay so we are going to attach this snap to this dot right here first step is to take your decorative I already forgot what it's called decorative prong the decorative prong goes on the right side of the button band right hand side of the garment and the right side of the garment and you are going to be placing that right over the center of that uh mark that you made centering the prongs over them and now we're trying to push all of those spiky prongs through our two layers of fabric as well as the interfacing that is in there so depending on how how thick your fabric is how much interfacing you use this is going to be a little bit of a process but kind of just use your nails and push it down as best you can and then when you get it pretty close lay this down super flat making sure nothing is in the way don't ask me how I know that you can snap your garment together which is really annoying okay take your eraser and get it pretty much you're stabbing the eraser with the prongs because you just want to get this fabric as deep down into the prongs as you possibly can then you take this little disc part of your snap setting tool kit slip it underneath and the the decorative prong is I'll show you it's going to fit perfectly in there so you have your little cup with like a little edge around it and this slips perfectly in there so it's nice and stable okay same thing happens whenever you go to put your prong in same thing I'll show you that um okay so slide this in there so it's nice and stable and then you take your shoot what's this called the terms are not uh socket the terms are not second nature to me yet okay and again this smoother bigger part is the side that goes face down okay now you take this little guy and you place it over your socket and as you can see I'm trying to wiggle it around that's also stable when I wiggle it the the out the whole garment is trying to move so I know everything is locked and loaded now you are going to take your hammer and you are going to gently tap you do not need to whack this this is not going to be the time where you're going to get out a lot of aggression this is just like a gentle tap maybe five of them and you'll kind of hear where it becomes less shallow I don't know it just starts to sound different so let's see if I can get you guys to hear that did you hear that so I think I hit it six times no big deal you looked it up and you've got a perfect right side of your snap okay so now for the other side I promised you guys a little trick on how to know that your snaps are going to line up so what I do next is now that I've got one in place I can snap it closed and I place the outer edge of this button band line it up with the inner edge of the other button band and I've got this little I don't know this little thing here that can somewhat leave an impression if you push hard enough and then when you lift up you should be able to see an itty bitty impression in there you guys might not be able to see it on camera it's pretty subtle but I know it's there right about there now so we have our little dot here so now we need to push um this little prong guy up through the wrong side so you need to transfer this little dot to the wrong side I like to do that by just putting in a little pin and then sintering the prong over the pin that way you're not marking it up too much push that through the fabric again you can remove the pin now and again you're repeating what the first step that we did where we're just trying to get this all five of these six of these I don't know how many there are prongs through all of the layers of fabric and interfacing keep pushing okay now put your disc down lay your prong over the disc take your pencil your eraser and start pushing all around you're pretty much going to destroy the eraser so make sure it's a pencil that I guess you don't totally love I don't know or maybe one you don't really need the eraser for it'd be a good one for like a stub of a pencil if you've got like pencil scrap or something okay that looks really good okay so now we're going to take the stud see that one I was able to remember word association okay and then that gets laid over top of the prong you can you can feel it kind of snap into place now this little tool also has like a little donut in it where this little stud thing is going to stick right in the middle of there and again all locked in place so again you just tap tap tap tada okay so now you have your beautiful ring stud your male side of your snaps and tada so I'll show you this one all right and just like that you have to imagine all my snaps are done but here's two of them and it's super easy and in a way I kind of feel like it's easier than buttons but that's just me I also like how there's not like a big hole in your fabric you know I like that too you can wedge these off if you decide you don't like them there will be the holes from that the prongs made but I don't know if you decide you don't love them it's easier to remove than buttonholes that's for sure but you can wedge them off using like the dull end of a butter knife or something to a I hope you guys enjoyed this and found it helpful and I will see you all very soon