hi I'm raka Eric Sofia and I'm a knitting instructor on craftsy.com I'm going to show you how to make a crochet buttonhole now in this case I'm thinking about buttonholes for sweaters like this one but of course you can use this technique for any project that you're working on so I'm gonna place the buttonhole on this crocheted edge here this is an edge that you would have on a sweater after sticking it and I like to mark my buttonholes using a pin I'll just put the pin right here and I'm going to let the buttonhole start by going under this loop here that's next to the one that the pin is in there and then I'll fasten it to the one one over so not the one that's in the pin but the other one here so here's my yarn so I'm gonna hold the yarn double for this buttonhole I just need a few inches it's not gonna be a big one so I just start by grabbing the yarn with my hook and pulling it through the loop here and then I'll grab the yarn again and now it's fastened to the edge I'm gonna make four more of these now this depends on the size of the button that you have chosen for the sweater and five and total is going to be fine for the button that I've chosen for this demonstration I'm gonna use this one this is the button you can see it here but if I had a smaller button for would probably be enough more ena 3 not probably four okay so now I have to fasten this to this stitch here and so there's gonna be one in between I'm just gonna remove the pin and I bring the hook under both legs of the stitch make a yarn over and pull the yarn through the stitch and the loop that's on my hook and now I can break the yarn I'm going to leave a little bit of an end for weaving in and I just pull the on through and then we can see if the button fits through the hole just test it like this yeah it's a good fit so now I just need to weave in the end I'm bringing the yarn through the edge to the back side there and then I'll just go under a few strands here along the edge I'm just one don't need to go very far because low pay is very fuzzy and the fibers stick nicely to each other I've just gone like half an inch here and then I can cut the end and it's all done now if you'd like to learn more or knit the sweater I'm wearing you can check out my class the top-down icelandic sweater on craftsy.com