Make a Cute Skirt out of Kids Old Jeans

Hello Life After Laundry readers! I’m Cami and I blog over at TitiCrafty. That’s my happy little spot where I share all my crafts, experiences and everything I can make with my hands. Today I’m happy to be here sharing with you a cute clothe refashion I made for my little girl. I made this cute skirt out of an old pair of jeans.

My little girl is very thin, being 26 months, she can still use 12-18 months pants and skirts because of the elastic on the waist. But some pants just don’t fit anywhere else. That’s the perfect opportunity to turn them into skirts, which means having a new outfit! =P

This is super easy to make, I made it in a couple of hours {even taking pictures}.

What you need:

• Jeans
• Some fabric scraps
• Buttons
• Scissors
• Threads
• Pins

First of all I measured the length I wanted the skirt and cut the excess. Then I unstitched the seam between legs.

Started on the front, by folding over the original stitched crutch piece, and pinned it in place. Since what I had left from the legs wasn’t enough to add a triangle in the front space formed by the legs, I just adjusted the crutch and pinned all the way down. It’s important to make sure it doesn’t malformed the skirt.

I stitched on the right side following the pins.

I cut the remaining fabric on the inside.

For the back I stitched a line from the half way top to the bottom.

For the Hem, with the skirt turned inside out, I turned it under 1Ž2 inch, then ironed it, I turned it under another 1Ž2 inch to inclose the raw edge, ironed again and pinned. I stitch around the edge of the skirt.

There you go! A new skirt!

Then I decorated it with a couple of fabric hearts and buttons on the front and a cute pocket on the back.

I cut out 2 hearts from 2 different fabrics. I just Folded a piece of fabric draw a half heart against the fold, cut and that’s it, you have a perfect symmetric heart .

I placed them on the skirt and pinned.

Then I stitched around the edges.

After that, I cut a rectangle from one of the fabrics, made a hem on all 4 sides. I stitched on short side for the opening. Then I pinned it in place on the skirt. I stitched around the other 3 sides.

The Final touch was adding some cute heart shaped buttons on the plain fabric heart and on the pocked.

 

Tadaaaa! All done!

And my girl loves it!