How to sew a belt to a skirt quickly and simply

A simple skirt can sew itself any girl. The most difficult step in this process may be the processing of the belt on the skirt. But in fact it will be much easier than it seems.

Before you sew a belt to the skirt, you need itto tailor. This can be done in different ways. The simplest option is to cut a regular rectangle, the length of which is equal to the length of the upper cut of the skirt, taking into account the allowances for fasteners and seams, and the width is twice the width of the belt plus two centimeters.

So, we cut out the belt.Suppose the upper cut is 70 cm, then our size will be 70 + 3 + 2 = 75 cm, where 2 cm, the seam allowances for short cuts, 3 cm are the protruding end of the belt, to which a button will be attached. We find the width in the same way. Assume that the parameter of our belt is 4 cm, then the total width of the part will be 4 X 2 + 2 = 10 cm, where 2 cm are the allowances for the seam of the joint with the skirt.

Before you sew the belt to the skirt, you should notonly tailor, but also strengthen the gasket. This will require flizelin or dublerin, suitable for fabric thickness. For dark materials, you need to buy a black or gray gasket, for light ones - white. From the dublerin cut the same rectangle as from the fabric. Now it needs to be glued to the material. To do this, we impose a gasket with an adhesive side on the wrong side of the workpiece belt, top it with a wet iron and glue dublerin with an iron. At the same time, it is not necessary to drive the fabric, but simply put the iron and hold it with pressure for a few seconds, then move on.

When the gasket sticks, it should be dried inhorizontal position (if you start work right away, a dublerin can peel off), so it is advisable to prepare a belt in advance so that at the right moment it is already at hand.

Before we sew the belt to the skirt, we tackle itto the upper cut, starting from the side seam into which the zipper is sewn. We begin to chop from the front half, folding the skirt and belt with the front sides, while one centimeter recedes from the edge of the belt (seam allowance along the short section). Having swept the belt along the entire length of the upper cut, we should get a belt end protruding by 4 cm, of which 1 cm is a seam allowance for a short cut. Instead of basting, you can use pins, like real dressmakers do.

Now you need to stitch the details of the skirt on a typewriter,remove the basting, fasten and cut the thread, iron the seam, and then iron it on the belt. After that you should iron all the belt allowances (1 cm each) on the wrong side.

Belt bend so that its loose longcut a little went to the seam attaching, to sweep, combining and sweeping away the short cuts. On the contour to delay the belt to the edge. Remove basting, iron out seams, fasten and cut threads. You can also first bend the belt on the front side, stitch short cuts, cut corners diagonally, twist, sweep, iron, and then sew the belt cut to the attachment seam.

An obka with a belt is almost ready.It remains only to make a loop from the side that is sewn to the front half of the skirt, and to the protruding end to sew a button. The loop is made on the machine with a zigzag stitch, then carefully cut with small scissors. Now you know how to sew a belt to the skirt.