I've been working on making a bias cut tartan waistcoat. Everything has been going well so far, but I was very concerned about trying to do machine sewn buttonholes.
So, I did a search for making hand sewn buttonholes and found this great tutorial:

http://artbeautyandwell-orderedchaos...ttonholes.html

It's very helpful and the style taught is for 18th century style buttonholes. Nice!!