Obi Belt up cycled from leftover shirt remnants

Obi Belt from Shirt Remnants

Print out the pattern obibeltpattern (Print at 100% A4)

Materials:

• Front material size 22” x 6”
• Back material size 22” x 6”
• Interfacing 22” x 6” (Medium weight iron on)
• Sewing thread
• Embroidery thread (Optional)
• Lace pieces (Optional)
• Ribbon 1” wide by 36” x 2

• For this Obi Belt I sewed together remnants of shirt materials into one piece of material slightly bigger that the amount required for the front of the belt. (see above or pattern)
• Iron all of the seams of the newly created material flat.
• Cut out the printed pattern.
• Lay the pattern on the fold of the material, pin and cut out.

• Repeat on the interfacing.

• Iron the interfacing onto the reverse side of the Obi Belt.

• Embellish the front of the belt to your requirements. I machine sewed on some small left over lace roses and hand embroidered a few lazy Daises stitches mixed with a random running stitch.

• Cut out the back section to the belt, again on the fold of the material. For this I used a complete piece of material from the back section of a shirt.
• Placing the Obi Belt material right side to right side, machine sew along the length of the belt, top and bottom. Leaving the end pieces open.

• Turn the belt right side out and iron flat.
• Turn in the ends and insert the ribbon into each end, pin in place.

• Machine sew around the circumference of the Obi Belt. Remove pins.

The belt is now ready to wear.

More up cycling ideas from the shirt project available online at http://missybonkers.com/the-shirt-project/