How to Make Your Own Embroidered Ribbon Belt

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Here's my embroidered ribbon belt on a pair of my vintage jeans!

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And the back view....

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Fuse interfacing to the wrong side of the ribbon.

Jen Stern

Here's my embroidered ribbon belt on a pair of my vintage jeans!

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Cut a thin strip of stabilizer and use temporary adhesive spray to adhere it to the underside of the hoop. Spray the strip, not the underside of the hoop...ask me how I know that? One time I sprayed the bottom of the hoop (a little too much) and the hoop stuck to the machine while it was embroidering—the fabric popped out of the hoop, and it wasn't pretty.

Patching the hole with a strip of stabilizer saves a lot of stabilizer!

Do not move the position of the embroidery design on the screen. Use the outline of the hole you patched as a guide to position the ribbon for the next hooping. Line up the last embroidery motif on the ribbon with the top end of the hole (which represents the first motif in the next embroidery). Then smooth the ribbon down next to the guide line, which will be running parallel to the hole. Pin the ribbon in place as you did for the first embroidery. Stitch the design.

When the second embroidery is finished, gently pull up the stabilizer and repatch the hole to embroider another design.

Keep embroidering until you've stitched along the entire ribbon. Clip all your threads, carefully removing the bits of stabilizer from the underside of the belt. Enjoy!

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Comments (2)

JenniferStern writes: How are you LnZ???? well I hope. My sister is 35 and she can't get enough of these belts. Maybe after a little more yoga I'll like them too!!!
Posted: 9:18 am on August 9th

LnZ writes: Cute idea, Jen! The teens and tweens, especially, are going to love this.


Posted: 8:39 am on July 28th

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