When the hole gets bigger, keep on digging

[Ouryve]

I shall have to look for one of those :thumbsup:

[Lowena]

I don't understand...having never made a garment nor seen an unfinished buttonhole.
I thought the buttonhole attachment made....a buttonhole! ie. open in the middle and bound round the edges. I take it,that's not the case .....

Everyday is a school day :thinking:

[dolcevita]

Buttonhole chisel - no slippage as long as you've got a nice bit of wood underneath.

[Elnnina]

Oh yes the buttonhole chisel with the block of wood is excellent - I also use a wooden steak hammer to use on the chisel and this hammer stays here in my room - it has never been used for anything else.  Just be aware that the little chisel is so dinky - my husband has his eye on this for what reason I do not know, but it is a sewing chisel not a wood working one.  I actually have the Bernina one which is now frightfully expensive, but I am sure the Clover one is more reasonable.

[Ouryve]

Haha, I can just see a chisel going walkies in our house. I have a pink toolkit because I wa sick of my screwdrivers getting "put away" in the unfathomable depths of one of someone else's toolboxes

[Bumblebuncher]

@Ouryve I bought a pink toolkit for the same reason, then one of the bf's decided it was easier to use my toolkit than dig through the manly ones.  The pink turned a grubby black from his use with several tools 
I got angry and shouted, nobody used it again but it was never the same after that 
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[Ouryve]

@Ouryve I bought a pink toolkit for the same reason, then one of the bf's decided it was easier to use my toolkit than dig through the manly ones.  The pink turned a grubby black from his use with several tools 
I got angry and shouted, nobody used it again but it was never the same after that 
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Mine gets used, too, but it's not allowed out of my sight - or anywhere near the black hole in the garage!

I need some pink garden tools, mind.

[Celia]

I once bought a pink computer for the same reason

[Flobear]

The solution I have is to meet a man/partner who has done very little DIY so does not have many tools - just one portable tool-box full. Consequently all the power tools and hand tools in the shed are mine. Of course it means I do all the DIY unless I hire a professional 

[Bodgeitandscarper]

I agree with @Flobear , my man had never done any diy either, any tools he had were very old and his dad's.   I do allow him to use some of my tools but only under supervision 

[Nevis5]

Haha I wish I could dissuade DH from attempting any DIY.  Always a nightmare.  And I bought a pink watering can in the spring as I'm sick of all mine disappearing off to the allotment.  Strangely it's still here  :thumbsup: