Abstract: There is disclosed a device to limit the travel of a buttonhole attachment for a sewing machine wherein the button for which the hole is made serves to set the limit of travel. The device includes a bracket having a front wall and a back wall with the front wall fixed to the buttonhole attachment, a limit which is positioned in front of the front wall and fixed to a shaft which in turn is movably attached to both the front wall and the back wall of the bracket and biased to move toward the front wall, and a stop fixed to the shaft between the front wall and the back wall, with the bracket adapted to provide access to insert a button between the front wall and the stop.