Old tee shirt & pants into SKIRT

This project makes me happy. Why?

Because it made my daughter so Happy!

For starters, I really can’t sew. I mean, I learned in 4-H when I was maybe 9 or 10 and that was about the extent of my experience.

So all my sewing is quite novice and I truly just learn as I go. I guess I am saying this because anyone can do this if I can. It is by no means perfect, but my daughter doesn’t care, and neither do I!

I had pinned several tutorials on making shirts into skirts and most of the came from HERE. So check it out if you want greater detail. I will just give you a general idea…

The above pants were too short for my daughter and the shirt too tight and short for me. We had the perfect combo of pink. I let my daughter pick the shirt and pants we were going to use (I have a stash that we needed to get rid of). She felt like she had ownership already. Another thing she wanted was a long skirt (to her knees) like the skirts I wear to church.

I gathered the skirt and then sewed it to the top of the pants. One thing to note is that when you work with a knit fabric it doesn’t fray, so I didn’t have to hem….sa-weet! That is my kind of sewing!

Also remember to use a zig-zag stitch so that it can be stretchy.

At this point I could have left it and just had a cute skirt with pants sewn in.

But we were going for a longer skirt and the pants were a little to short (and didn’t look like capris). So we opted to cut off the legs and sew them together to make the bottom of the skirt.