Today we have a season extending summer to fall skirt refashion for you! We took a lightweight dress for a little girl and transformed it into a skirt that is perfect for fall weather! Let us show you what we are talking about!
Hey, you sassy thing!
This little sundress we picked up at Goodwill for $1.50 is a toddler size. It didn’t really fit Annie, or rather was great for the hot summer, but cooler fall temperatures just were leaving her a bit chilled! Also, it was getting small! So naturally we thought of refashioning it into a skirt for fall. Taking it straight from skirt to dress worked size wise, but it didn’t add any warmth to the thin material. Our next idea was to add some sort of under layer that would ruffle out the bottom. But alas, we could find no brown skirts to match the exact brown of this little dress. What to do, what to do? We know that manufacturers change color and dyes from year to year, but it was getting ridiculous! I even spent one evening in Jo-Ann Fabrics, haunting the aisles, not being distracted at all by the gorgeous new patterns and colors! Ahem, so anyway, I just happened to lay the little dress I’d brought along up next to a brown bolt of fabric I thought might work, when it hit me! Purple! On the other side of the brown bolt was a purple that made this little dress pop! So it was back to the drawing board, or rather back to Annie’s closet at home!
Hello, baby!
We found in Annie’s very copious stash of skirt this purple number. Now there was nothing wrong with it, and she enjoyed wearing it just like this, but we needed to repurpose it to work with the little Cherokee dress we had begun refashioning!
Step 1: Cut off straps on brown Cherokee dress.
Step 2: Cut off waistband of purple skirt and zigzag top of remaining skirt bottom.
Step 3: Sew purple skirt underneath Cherokee dress.
Step 4: Cut off buttons from top of former Cherokee dress and sew them and some purple and brown ones along the hem of the former Cherokee dress.
Ta-da!
Annie loves this new combination although she was unsure at first if she wanted to sacrifice her purple skirt for the project!
Close up of the button detail!
Now this skirt will keep Annie warm for all her planned fall activities. She wants to visit a pumpkin patch, go for a hayride, go to the zoo, try out a corn maze, jump in the leaf piles, and so on! Good thing she has a warm skirt to keep her covered through all that!
Thankful for a summer to fall skirt refashion!
Total Time: 1 hour (seriously it wouldn’t have taken Allegra this long, but I’m a very slow at sewing by hand, and those buttons took way longer than they should have! It could also have been Annie bumping my elbow as she jumped up and down saying, “Is it ready yet? Can I try it on now? What’s taking you so long, Mom?”)
Total Cost: $1.50
Talent Level: Beginning Seamstress
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Make it beautiful,
Audrey
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