How To Add Flower Belt to Shorts or Pants (3867 Views)

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  Step 1 of 11

  Measurements of your belt: Calculate the desired length for the Belt with the integrated flower as following: Measurement of waistband (once around) + 47” (122cm) (extra length for flower and closure of belt) Example: Waist measurement 28” + 48” = total length of belt: 76” (193 cm)

  Let’s say you want the belt to be 2.5” (6.3 cm) wide when finished. Double that measurement and add 1” (2.5 cm) for seam allowance and you know how wide to cut your fabric strip Example: desired width when finished: ( 2.5” x 2) + 1”= 6” ( 15.25cm) Result: We cut a fabric strip 76” long and 6” wide.

  TIP: if your fabric is not long enough or you only have scraps, simply attach several pieces together until your strip has the desired length

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  Fold the strip lengthwise, right side onto right side. Stitch along the open edge with ½” (1.3 cm) seam allowance. Turn out the fabric tunnel by using a loop turner or a safety pin. See this How To.

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  Place the belt on top of the back waistband. You should place it so that the length of the belt is divided into 48” to the left and 42” to the right of the Center Back. Hand tack the belt down with a couple of stitches on the center back and the two side seams.

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  Turn the shorts around. Tack down the belt again in the front close to either side of the fly.

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  Take the loose end of the left side of the belt and create a loop. Pull the end of the belt through the loop. Do not pull it all through, just so that you see a fold of it coming out of the loop.

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  Pull the fold through until it looks about something like that, not any further.

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  Pull the knot carefully tighter and arrange the folds so that the knot looks pretty. You can do so by folding the outer parts down and by pulling the inner parts apart a little bit.

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  Tack the Flower with little hand stitches. Do so on all different points where the knot could come loose otherwise.

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  Take the end of the belt on the right side of the pants and tack it to the top of the waistband, very closely to the fly. Then close belt by tying the that end around the loose belt end that is hanging off the flower.

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  Finished! Regular shorts embellished with a beautiful flower belt.

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  This is actually step 3

  Cut a strip of interfacing with the same length, but only as wide as the finished belt is supposed to be. For our example it would be 2.5” (6.3cm)