Monday, February 29, 2016

Pinned It - Did It - Pants to Skirt

Finally!  I've been wanted to try this for years.

After reading and/or watching the tutorials on my Pinterest board, I took a few ideas, tweaked a few things, and got to work. First thing:  lots of seam ripping to open the center seam.

 There are tutorials for mini skirts, straight skirts, and pleated, but I wanted to do a simple one with the triangular inserts in the front and back.  Most tutorials I saw for this insert bent the center seam to the side and sewed it down like this:
 
 
I don't like that look.  Instead, I made a small cut on each side of the center seam and sewed it under. So, from this:

to this:
The long seam piece was cut down once it was turned under and sewn in.


I serged all the inside edges, turned up a half an inch twice for the hem, and it was finished.  I'm looking forward to try it again on some jeans next week.

The back


5 comments:

  1. Nice job on the skirt! GMTA - I don't like that look either (3rd picture) - that design has been around since the 70's that "I" can recall, and probably before that as well. Is that a hidden pocket for your g*u*n on the back at the bottom??! ;) Did you save the scraps of pant legs to make zipper pouches? I ask that because I just cut down 3 pairs of stained/ripped knee'd work pants of hubby's and put them in a pile to make "353 zippies" (353 is his union number, hehe) :D

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    1. To clarify, I'm not MAKING 353 zippies out of his work pants - there's only enough fabric for about 12 >:)

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  2. I really like what you've done with the centre seam. I've never really liked the curved seam look. Well done on a professional looking skirt! Pinning.

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  3. That is a great looking refashioned pants to skirt! It does look better than the curve to the side.

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  4. got to your blog via Threading my way. This is a great tip

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