Recycled Jean Skirt

Posted on Friday 21 July 2006 at 4:11 PM in Just For Fun - Post Comment

I started this one at the beginning of the year and never quite got around to finishing it...until recently.  I finally dug it out of the closet and finished it.  So, now that it is finished I can share the pictures with you.    I started with a cheap pair of jeans and a pretty skirt from the resale shop.  I undid the inside seams and bottm hem of the jeans with a seam ripper and laid the jeans out to measure the material from the skirt.  Once I had an approximate size for the skirt panels, I cut them out and pinned them to the skirt.  I sewed the skirt panels to the jeans and then hemmed the bottom.  After I got done I thought it looked kinda plain, so since I had extra material from the skirt I made some patches and sewed them on as embellishments.  I really liked the way it turned out (Hubby really likes it too), so I may just invest some more pocket change at the resale shop and make another.


I'm not much of a sewer so putting this thing together was trial and error on my part.


The front of the skirt.


The back of the skirt.


Since you really can't see the pretty floral print from the pictures, here is a close up.

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Posted by BuzyMumof3sons on Friday 21 July 2006 at 4:49 PM - Link

That is beautiful!!!!!!! You did a wonderful job on your skirt!

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Posted by Farmwife410 on Friday 21 July 2006 at 5:08 PM - Link

Wow, that really looks great!!!

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Posted by rildapeel1 on Thursday 13 March 2008 at 12:44 PM - Link

I am inspired!! Fantastic Job! I am proud of you and thank so much for sharing in details. Never thought of doing that although who knows your post may just given me that needed to. Blessing and love, rilda *U*