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div style="text-align: justify;"Metal belts have been on my mindnbsp; and at the absolute top of my DIY list for a long time. I finally found the material I needed to make my own version when I was back in Australia on holidays - aluminium flashing which is sheet metal used in roofs, found at the hardware store. Read on for an incredibly simple (and cheap!) tutorial./divbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666376319/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="DSC_0399 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="DSC_0399" height="456" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7161/6666376319_0b015a118f_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666377993/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="DSC_0402 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="DSC_0402" height="427" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6666377993_a015582516_b.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divbr /bYou need:/bbr /- Approx 1 metre of 0.03mm thicka href="http://www.amazon.com/Amerimax-Home-66308-Aluminum-Flashing/dp/B000U9NPJY/ref=pd_cp_hi_3" Aluminium Flashing/a - used in roofing and available in most hardware stores. It cost me around AUD$2.50 for the metre.br /- Scissorsbr /- Hammerbr /- Towelbr /- Rope, leather or wire to secure at the backbr /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666312107/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="tutorial by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="tutorial" height="480" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6666312107_e8aab4a0d2_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666314297/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="tutorial2 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="tutorial2" height="480" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6666314297_7ff4583cf7_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /div style="text-align: justify;"bHow to:/b/divdiv style="text-align: justify;"1. Using scissors cut a strip of flashing to size - I cut mine about 7cm wide and 75cm long to suit my waist with a little extra at the ends. /divdiv style="text-align: justify;"2. To effectively 'hem' the edge of the metal (so that you don't cut yourself while wearing it), place your flashing on a table with about 1cm along the length of it hanging over the side of the table. Using your fingers, push the metal down so it is flush with the corner of the table. Turn the metal over and push it down all the way down along the edge. Repeat this on the other long edge of the belt./divdiv style="text-align: justify;"5. To finish the edges, cover with a towel and hammer lightly with the hammer along the edge so it is nice and flat. You can also place the belt between two phone books and hammer the edges to make sure it is finished well./divdiv style="text-align: justify;"6. Carefully bend the belt around your waist or something round like a bucket, making sure not to fold it - the less it folds or bends the better the belt will look./divdiv style="text-align: justify;"7. Roll the two ends of the belt over so that you have two tubes at the ends. I rolled the ends around a pencil to make it easier./divdiv style="text-align: justify;"8. Finally, thread the tubes with ribbon, leather or rope and tie in a bow or tuck into the tubes at the back to secure the belt. I used some plastic covered fencing wire but you can use whatever you want./divdiv style="text-align: justify;"br //divdiv style="text-align: justify;"Here's the finished product. Given how cheap aluminium flashing is you can make a few different versions - thick, thin, hammered, smooth etc./divbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666229555/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="apairandasparediymetalbelt07 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="apairandasparediymetalbelt07" height="436" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6666229555_322891108c_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666622827/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="DSC_0439 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="DSC_0439" height="429" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6666622827_994ab2bc8a_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /br /div style="text-align: center;"And there you go! How easy is that? The belt goes with just about every outfit you can imagine - and suits summer as much as it does winter./divbr /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666268961/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="apairandasparediymetalbelt16 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img 640="" alt="apairandasparediymetalbelt16" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6666268961_4a535bf3c6_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66755335@N05/6666263553/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="apairandasparediymetalbelt15 by apairandaspare, on Flickr"img alt="apairandasparediymetalbelt15" height="428" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6666263553_bd3eef7f5f_b.jpg" width="640" //a/divbr /div style="text-align: center;"iWearing:nbsp;/i/divdiv style="text-align: center;"iOutfit 1 - a href="http://www.something-else.com.au/"Something Else/a wool jumper, a href="http://www.countryroad.com.au/"Country Road/a Singlet, Self Designed Lace Shorts, Zara boots./i/divdiv style="text-align: center;"iOutfit 2 -nbsp; a href="http://www.countryroad.com.au/"Country Road/a Singlet, mini skirt from Korea/i/divdiv style="text-align: center;"br //divdiv style="text-align: center;"br /br /br //divdiv style="text-align: center;"Follow via a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/en/blog/1735844/a-pair-amp-a-spare"Bloglovin/a | a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Pair-A-Spare/126034164117853?v=wall"Facebook/a | a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/apairandaspare"Twitter/a/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8784775234411105189-8478821673709566210?l=apair-andaspare.blogspot.com' alt='' //div

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