Skull Belt With LEGO Buckle

With Halloween 2021 quickly approaching, I wanted to make something fun to wear. I had some skull fabric in my collection and thought that it would be perfect for a belt.

I used few LEGO plates to construct a very simple belt and a few white flat LEGO tiles for some fun skull embellishments.

TOOLS:

Sewing machine

Hole punch

Scissors

Sharpie pens

Tailors tape measure

Material used:

Skull Fabric

Basic canvas belt, with the ends cut off, measure to length

6 by 6 peg LEGO plate, Black

2 by 6 peg LEGO plate, Black, QTY 3

2 by 2 peg LEGO flat plate, White, QTY 5

Clear plastic, recycled, 9 by 9 inch sheet

I added skulls using a permanent marker to the white LEGO tiles. Drawing each one different but still matching the style of the skull fabric.

You can add more or less and draw what ever you want to match you style and fabric!

Cut out and hole punch the plastic sheet for mating with LEGO Plate by first measuring the size needed for the plate.

Then add an inch or two on each side that will be used to go under the fabric and sewn on to the belt ends.

Punch the holes that will mess with the pegs on the LEGO plate.

I just took the plastic and held it over the LEGO plate and used my marker to put dots where the hole needed to be punched.

Check that the other LEGO plate still holds once placed over the plastic, this will secure the plate to the belt. See the photos for the mating of the plastic and how the other LEGO plate holds by locking plates together.

I measured a belt I wear often to get a true length, minus the LEGO Belt Buckle length and transferred that to a old Canvas belt, which will become the core of my belt to sew the skull fabric onto.

I wanted a certain row of skulls to be seen once the belt was finished so I made sure to align the fabric carefully and then cut the strip.

I folded over each edge along the length of the belt. Carefully pinning each one or two inches until I reached the ends. I removed the bulk of the end fabric leaving just enough to fold over and place the plastic attachment into the folder fabric. (See photos)

Sewing the plastic to the webbed belt with several rows to secure the plastic. I then ran down each top, middle, and bottom of the belt length to secure my skull fabric to the belt and keep it from rolling.

You can always add an extra inch if you need to the length of the belt by adding two or three extra LEGO plates.

As shown in the photo you can then move the plates as needed to grow the LEGO buckle.