Trying to be Crafty

I was blog surfing last week and thanks to The Thompson Tales I found the link to one of my new favorite blogs: makeitandloveit.blogspot.com. She includes a lot of free patterns for "re-purposing" old clothes we're about to throw out. I found this idea and HAD to try it.

First off, we have holey jeans coming out of our ears. I've turned some into shorts, but really, you can only have so many pairs of shorts. This idea was perfect! I am the first to admit that I am not even an average seamstress, but I made it through this project and was pleased with my results. While "Make it and Love It" put this as a 30 minute project it ended up actually being more like 2 hours for me. The next one will hopefully take less time.

So Here it is! I'll give you my abridgement here, but for complete instructions visit http://makeitandloveit.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

I cut off this way cute pair of jeans about 1-2" below the zipper. The pattern suggested 1/2", but after ruining the first pair of jeans I attacked, I decided that wasn't enough.

This was for Trista, so I took a few measurements to decide how long I wanted the finished product to be and cut 2 strips of fabrics to accommodate. (This was about .50 worth of fabric from Wal-Mart's bargain section.)

I pinned the fabric on the front and back of the jeans, followed directions to baste it on, gather it, and then finish it off.

Walla!!

Trista is now one skirt richer and a tiny dent has been made in my cut-off pile.