May Morris (William Morris’ daughter) painted many designs inspired by wildfowers, including her Melsetter wallpaper series. In the same tradition of painting ‘Truth to Nature’, the little foral cross stitch motifs of this feminine statement belt are beautifully worked onto a crocheted base.

MEASUREMENTS
Length Belt 75cm (29.5in)
Total length Belt with fastened buckle apporx. 79cm (31.1in)
Width 11cm (4.3in)

MATERIALS
Scheepjes Organicon (100% Organic Soft Cotton; 50g/170m)
Yarn A: 203 Frosted Silver x 2 balls
Scheepjes Catona (100% Mercerised Cotton; 10g/22,5m)
Yarn B: 114 Shocking Pink x 1 ball
Yarn C: 409 Soft Rose x 1 ball
Yarn D: 241 Parrot Greenx 1 ball
Yarn E: 256 Cornelia Rose x 1 ball
Yarn F: 208 Yellow Gold x 1 ball
Yarn G: 513 Apple Granny x 1 ball
Yarn H: 115 Hot Red x 1 ball
Yarn I: 106 Snow White x 1 ball
Yarn J: 411 Sweet Orange x 1 ball
Yarn K: 517 Ruby x 1 ball
3 mm crochet needle
2 stitch markers
embroidery needle
2 x 30 mm belt buckles, item no. 229040
100 x 20 cm Tissu de Marie fabric, item no. 706033-5
100 x 20 cm iron-on interlining, item no. 229040
Sewing neelde + thread

SKILL LEVEL
This is a intermediate level pattern.

This pattern is published in YARN 12 Romance, a Bookazine by Scheepjes. Earlier editions of YARN can be found here.