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Don’t Cost A Dime: Fabric Flower Belt

Following my last post, it appears I’m stuck on flowers doesn’t it?! Today’s don’t cost a dime involves fabric flowers instead of paper flowers.

I am completely in love with these flower tutorials from Martha Stewart. You may even remember this post from a few months ago when I talked about making some. I also love these flower sashes from Emerson Made. So, I set out to combine the two and create my own flower sash but a bit more informal. Here’s what I came up with:

I knew I wanted to use stripes and thankfully, I had enough striped material left over from my purse project. Using the templates and tutorial from Martha, make your flower first.

Next, cut two long stripes of fabric about 1” wide. Fold the two sides in to meet each other and ironed them in place.

Then, fold it again in half and sewed down the center to make it stay.

Next, sew the two strips onto the back of your flower. I wanted mine to be off center when I wear it so I made one side much longer than the other so that when I wrapped it around me it is just right. You can also just make one band if you want but I wanted mine to be double banded.

Then, wrap it around yourself and you have a fun belt! You can use it to dress up a plain white shirt:

Or wear it with a black dress:

I’m also thinking of making a smaller flower (much smaller) to wear in my hair. Although I don’t think I will wear them at the same time :)

Enjoy!!!