How to DIY a Cute Denim Corset Belt
Don’t throw away your ripped or dated jeans! I made a denim corset belt out of leftover jeans and the result is a unique piece that will upgrade your wardrobe.
Follow along to learn how to make a corset belt of your own.
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Tools and materials:
- Leftover jeans
- Seam ripper
- Fabric scissors
- Tailor’s chalk
- Straight pins
- Sewing machine
- Measuring tool
- Hole puncher belt tool
- Eyelet and grommet pieces
- Eyelet setting plier
- Black laces (cord)
1. Un-sew!
With a leg piece from leftover jeans, use a seam ripper to take out the seams, creating a flat piece of denim. Start with a piece like this:
Once you’ve opened the seams, you two pieces:
2. Straighten the edges
Cut off the raw edges all around both pieces, making them straight.
3. Fold
Taking one of the pieces, fold it in half down the vertical.
Next, open that up and fold each of the halves inward, flipping back the area that once had a seam, like this:
4. Sketch curves and sew
To give shape to the belt, trace curved lines with tailor’s chalk on either end of this folded up denim piece.
It should look like this:
Pin in place and then sew along the sketched curves.
After sewing the curves, your fabric should look like this:
5. Sew the ends
Next, pin down the flaps at the end and sew them down on your sewing machine.
Here is our progress so far:
6. Fray the edges
Using your seam rippers and your hands, pull at the long edges of the denim to tease out the fibers, creating a fray above the seam that you sewed.
Here is the piece, after fraying it:
7. Mark and punch the holes
Using tailor’s chalk and a measuring tool, mark where you want the holes for the laces.
See the video at 2:08 -2:22 to see how I marked mine.
Then, align a hole puncher belt tool above each mark and squeeze with both hands to make the holes.
8. Insert eyelets and grommets
Place the eyelets in each hole.
Then secure them with grommets using an eyelet setting plier.
9. Thread the cord
Thread the cord through the holes and your DIY corset belt is complete!
Here’s the final look of this corset belt DIY:
DIY denim corset belt
I hope you loved this step by step tutorial for how to make a corset belt. Show us your denim corset belt looks in the comments below!
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