:: Refashioning - shirt to toddler skirt

For our family pictures in November, I'd had this color palette all worked out in my head.

Maybe it looked a little too halloween-ish (I added in black), but I thought it worked.

I was wanting to make the girls outfits but I ended up just making their skirts.

{which was fine with me}

For Ava's skirt, I wanted to use this woman's XL top.

I'd found it at Downeast Basics on clearance and thought I'd resize it to fit me,

 but that never happend {the story of my life},

 so I knew it'd make a perfect skirt.

It already had shirring.

 {that's what it's called, right? - - I'm still a beginner sewer}

So, 

1.  I just cut across a few inches above

2.  folded over right above the shirring

3. then sewed it.

4.  I next got out my elastic and measured it to Ava's waist

5.  I pinned the elastic to the shirring and did zig-zag stitches across it

Turned out to be cute, definitely not professionally done,

but it worked. 

This is what it ended up looking like.

It's a little big, but she'll grow into it.

And there's my little cheese-ball.

{the skirt underneath is this skirt from DowneastGirl}

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