Patchwork belt

By Spotlight

Get creative with your fabric scraps this season & make the perfect accessory.

Final Result

Materials

• co-ordinating printed cotton fabrics
• 110cm wide medium/heavy iron-on interfacing
• metal D rings in size of choice (we used 27mm & 25mm)
• scissors &/or rotary cutter & cutting mat
• sewing machine
• Gütermann sewing thread
• iron
• ruler/tape measure

Step 1

To make 27mm belt

Measure your waist or hips (where you will wear the belt) and add 15cm. This will be the total length of fabric required for patchwork belt. Cut fabrics into various lengths (no shorter than 5cm) all with a 7.5cm width.

Step 2

With right sides facing, sew the fabric pieces together using a 1cm seam allowance. Continue stitching fabrics together to make one long strip to measure the total length of fabric required. Press open seams.

Step 3

Cut a piece of iron-on interfacing 5.5cm wide x 2cm shorter than total length of belt required. Centre the interfacing on the wrong side of patchwork fabric strip. Fuse interfacing onto fabric.

Step 4

Press 1cm in on each of the shorter ends of fabric. Press 1cm in on both long sides of fabric. Fold fabric in half lengthwise, wrong sides together and press. Pin sides together and topstitch belt together 3mm in from the edge.

Step 5

Thread 3cm of one end of belt through the D rings and fold over to back of belt. To secure D rings in place, topstitch two parallel rows of stitching 5mm apart through all layers.

Step 6

To make 25mm belt

Repeat as above, with all fabric pieces cut to a 6.5cm width and interfacing 4.5cm wide.