Embroidered & Embellished Belt Pattern Download

Embroidered & Embellished Belt

By Kerry Smith

Embroider this festive belt to show off your creative talents or to learn some new stitches. Combined with luscious colors of perle cotton, the stitches are easy and yield wonderful results. Raid your button jar to embellish—this might just be the project to use those vintage buttons that you’ve been hanging onto! Braided perle cotton creates the belt closure.

FABRIC
— 1/4 yd linen or linen blend fabric, 45″
or 54″ wide

OTHER SUPPLIES
— Template:
— Belt Ends (A)
— 1 yd woven, fusible interfacing (such
as Pellon SF 101 Shape-Flex),
20″ wide
— Size 5 perle cotton, one each of
golden yellow, indigo blue, and rose
pink
— Seventeen 1/2″ buttons
— Four 3/4″ shank buttons
— Sewing thread to match fabric
— Handsewing needle
— Embroidery needle
— Tapestry needle
— Embroidery hoop
— Fabric-safe marker or tailor’s chalk
— Point turner
— Rotary cutter, acrylic ruler, and selfhealing
mat

— Press cloth
— Optional: ¼” quilter’s tape

Finished size
Fits a 26″ waist, with 1/2″ ease. Finished
size is 26 1/2″ × 3″. To adjust for other
sizes, see Step 1.