Crafty Cat: Gardening tool belt

Spring in the air! Get back in the garden AND keep your tools neat and tidy

By Cat Morley
Published: March 26th, 2009 | 12:45pm

You will need:
- Two types of fabric
- Ribbon
- Scissors
- sewing machine or sewing needle
- Thread
- Pins

1. Cut a square of fabric measuring 24 inches by 24 inches. With the wrong side is facing up, fold up the bottom edge of the fabric by 1 inch and sew it down, then fold down the top edge by 1 inch and sew it down. Fold up the bottom edge by 8 inches so that you have a pouch at the bottom. Pin this in place.

2. Cut a second piece of fabric measuring 24 inches by 10 inches. Place this below the 1-inch hem at the top of the first piece of fabric and stitch neatly in place.

3. Flip the fabric over and fold up the bottom edge, so that the 8-inch pouch is now at the back of the belt, with it's wrong side of the fabric facing out. Stating below the 1-inch hem, sew down the left and right sides of the tool belt, stitching the pouch in place.

4. Flip the pouch inside out again, so that the fabric is the right side up. Place the gardening tools inside the belt and mark out where you would like the pockets to be with pins. Remove the tools and sew the lines for the pockets.

5. Cut two long lengths of ribbon, measuring about 25 inches long. Place the ribbons, at either side, inside the loop created by the 1-inch hem. Sew in place.

6. Cut two shorter lengths of ribbon, measuring about 10 inches. Roll up your belt, with the tools in place, and stitch one ribbon to the edge of the belt and one where the edge of the belt meets the back of the belt. Use these two ribbons to tie up your belt in to a neat little

Cat Morley is a 23 year old Scottish crafter, now living in London and running her Web site, Cut Out + Keep. Having started the site five years ago as a personal blog, it became a social network (and her full time job) after finishing university in 2007. The site has become home to over 6000 step-by-step craft tutorials, submitted from members across the globe. She is also the editor of the site's accompanying online magazine, Snippets.