Old Dress, New Skirt

When I was about 15 (so about 6 years ago now) i brought a dress from Target.. for the first 4 or so years i wore it out to friends houses, the movies, shopping etc, the next couple of years of its life it was only worn in the house as it was getting a bit old. Then recently it literally started to fall apart, the straps began to break apart as well as the the whole top section really... So as i couldn't bear to part with a much loved piece of clothing, and i don't like buying new clothes anyway, I decided today was the day I would give it a new life.. IT WOULD BECOME A SKIRT!!

I forgot to take a picture of what it looked like before cut it, but I think i must have one in he archives so will edit the post when i find one!!

Step 1: Cut off the top leaving 1 inch of material above top part.





Step 2: Turn it inside out, and fold over the extra inch and iron down, to make a tunnel for elastic.

Step 3: Sew along the edge of this tunnel leave a inch gap at the back ( i made the mistake of accidentally leaving the gap at the front, which meant i didn't get a nice finish!)

Step 4: Get some length of elastic, attach a safety pin at one end, and using the pin to grab, pull it through the tunnel. Once all the way through make sure there is some overlap and pin through the fabric into the elastic to hold in place ( I didn't do this very well, so there ended up being a gap between the beginning and end of the elastic.. but it still turned out okay)



Step 5: Sew a box with a cross in it - this hold the elastic in place, and is neat ( mine wasn't very neat...)





Step 5: Tidy any threads, Turn it in the right way, give it another iron and put it on!!

Step 5: Show your cat your handy work :)