I'll show you how to do in buttonhole there's a lot of the and your pattern no usually tell you what kind of buttonhole you need to use and there's some simple buttonholes and there's some more complicated buttonholes and a lot of it will depend on how much strength you need around that buttonhole and also the size of your button so right now I'm just going to show you how to do a really simple buttonhole for a small button and this is a yarn-over buttonhole this is probably the easiest kind of buttonhole to do but what you do is you work to the place in your knitting where you're going to place your buttonhole and then you can either do this before or after the yarn over it doesn't matter but at some point you need to knit two stitches together and then do a yarn over and then continue knitting so the reason that you have to knit the two stitches together obviously is because you're doing a yarn over and you don't want to add a stitch into your knitting you just want to create a little hole for the button and then when you go to work the backside of your knitting you're just going to knit that yarn over just like it's a regular stitch and this will create just a little buttonhole this is great for like maybe decorative buttons or buttons on children sweaters or something like that something we're going to have small buttons and then that's about the size of it it's just a little buttonhole like that and if you need to do if you want to use the yarn-over technique but you want a little bit of a larger buttonhole you can do that just knit to another place and we'll do another buttonhole here if you're going to do a larger one what I would do is knit two stitches together before you're yarn over and then when you do your yarn over wrap it twice and then at the other side you'll need to do another decrease because you wrapped it twice so I'll do an SSK on the other side and we do that videos on how to do these decreases if you don't already know how to do and then that will just create a little bit of a larger buttonhole but it's the same idea personally I don't like to use the one where you do the to wrap over is because I think it starts to look a little sloppy at that point so if you're going to do if you need something bigger I would recommend using a different type of buttonhole because when you get them too big and you don't have enough support around them and yeah they're going to get kind of saggy after a while but you can see it does make a good bit larger buttonhole that's how you do the yarn-over Bimal you