Friday 13 February 2009

Hip Hugging With Belts

Inspired by the large amount of vintage buckles I seem to be accumulating, I decided to start some belt making in order to give at least a few of the buckles a new path in life.

I love knitted wool belts, there's something rustic and textural about them, and I used a pure black wool for these two belts:





Both belts are hand knitted, and both the red and black buckles are vintage too. I've made them long enough to drape around hips too - I think belts look great just slung casually around your hips. These two belts are for sale in my etsy shop, but with the ever growing buckle collection I sense more will be on their way.

3 comments:

Chrisy said...

What a great idea!...i too have a stash of old buckles...also with looootttssss of other stuff...i must get my act together and make something with them...ta for the inspiration...

Anonymous said...

Cute idea!

LeelaBijou said...

Oh so beautiful!