I admit it.. I've been bitten by the refashioning bug. Its hard not to, after reading all the wonderful blogs and pinterest boards. I have never been to a thrift store before this spring, for various reasons, the biggest one being not having one close by with easy parking (parallel parking is a huge deterrent, and not just for me I imagine!). So when I discovered the local church ladies running one on selected days I decided to check it out and came back with quite a number of possibilities, all for half price (score!), each was about $1-2.
I had to get these printed shorts, because I love printed anything. There are many tutorials on how to turn shorts into a skirt which mostly included a triangular piece attached in front. I felt I wouldn't need that because these were already way too big for me.
I decided to go for it and so, a date with the seam ripper! although this was not a sad one. Opened up the crotch seam and sewed a straight line down the back and about an inch in, then trimmed off the excess.
Those arrows on the picture should've been darker I guess.
Did the same with the front, but stopped at the zipper, mostly because I didn't know what else to do:-)
And here's the after! It's not too bad.. the pocket openings are a little off, I caught myself spending a couple of minutes discreetly looking for them to put my hands into, but overall quite wearable. Infact I stepped out wearing it for an afternoon of blueberry picking.
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