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How to Make a Bellydance Belt  
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Tags: Bellydance, Bellydance Belt, Dancing

Here is how you can make a bellydancing belt!

	Cut the top part of the t-shirt off under the arm holes until you are left with a "tube" of fabric.
	Put the fabric tube on like a mini-skirt, this will serve as the mold of the belt so put the fabric on the same place on your body that you would normally wear your belt.
	Get a friend to start wrapping you in the duct tape. The purpose of this is to make a "pattern" of your exact body so that your belt will fit perfectly and you use the fabric so that the duct tape will not stick to you or your regular clothes.
	After you are all wrapped up (the tape needs to cover the entire t-shirt) get your friend to draw points on the duct tape of where you want the top, bottom, sides, etc of the belt to be. (You are drawing an outline of your belt onto the duct tape.)
	CAREFULLY...Get your friend to slide a pair of scissors under the duct tape/fabric and make one cut up each side (at the hip) to remove your "pattern" from your body.
	You now have a perfect pattern of your belt front and back that should match your shape exactly.
	Trim off the excess fabric by following the "markings" that your friend had drawn on the duct tape.
	Okay you should now have a belt front and back in the shape of how you want the finished product to be.
	Remember to add an extra inch or two on each side of the front and back pieces when you cut out your fabric so that your can close the belt and have extra to overlap for weight gain or loss.
	Now, get your interfacing, base fabric and decorative fabric and felt and cut out front and back from each, using your duct tape "pattern". You should have a front and back piece of interfacing, front and back of base fabric and front and back of decorative fabric and felt.
	With a sewing machine...sew all layers of the back pieces together to make one heavy weight belt back.
	With a sewing machine...sew all layers of the front pieces together to make one heavy weight front.
	Decorate the front and back pieces and use some kind of decorative trim to cover the stitches where you sewed the layers together.
	Join the sides together with heavy duty hook-and-eyes.
	Place felt on the inside of your belt to absorb sweat and make it cushy.
	Now shake your bootie!

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