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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Girls' Skirt from Jeans


My mother bought my daughter a pair of thrift store jeans that had a huge crotch in them that would never fit her.  I decided to cut the legs off and make them into a skirt. 
I used the pant legs to create the bottom ruffle and cut two additional strips of fabric for the other two ruffles I had planned.

I gathered each one of the strips to form the ruffles.  First I added the denim ruffle, sewing right sides together to the bottom and then topstitched it.  Then I added the tulle ruffle, and finally the fabric ruffle sewing the wrong sides to the right sides of the skirt.  I made sure each ruffle overlapped the other.  I then used the ribbon to finish off the top edge of the fabric ruffle.


 Now my daughter has a cute skirt she loves to wear instead of an ill-fitting pair of pants!

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