I had 50gms of worsted, hand-painted, cotton in my stash that was a lovely colour but was really too coarse to incorporate into a garment. It seemed best suited to a belt but I don’t like belts that tie. And I didn’t have a nice buckle lying around either. What I did have was quite a few large, odd, buttons. So I began to play with the idea of a belt that buttoned rather than buckled.

In this belt, the pattern is the buttonholes — which means that it is endlessly adjustable.