Okay, I've been doing this since my college days.
I wasn't really satisfied with the first one, so from a skirt, I made into a bag. [I just sewed the bottom hem together, then used an old belt as the strap. Tada, instant bag!] The second one was better, as I used it for the last three years of college. The third one was another experiment, wherein I combined my crocheting skills with my sewing skills. I have no idea though where it is now.
So, how do I do it?
First, I get an old pair of jeans. A pair good enough to look at when it becomes a skirt, but I won't mind tossing out if you made the skirt too short.
Then I cut off the bottom part.
By this time I fairly have an idea on how short I want the skirt to be so the length above should be really longer than the length you have in mind.
Okay, next, I separate the (inner) seams.
Until I get something like this:
And then I lay out the seams so that it will resemble and function as a skirt:
Now the next part is the hard part: sewing everything up. But then I found a better and faster way for this project: SEW NO MORE!
All you got to do is lay out a thin layer of the glue on the parts of the cloth you want to come together.
Tada! Actually, I just wanted to use it to hold everything together muna before I sew. But then when I saw that it held nicely naman and won't rip out (in fairness di naman kasi ganon ka-fitted yung skirt sakin so really no worries there haha).
And so, the finished product, after sewing-no-more, and a few more adjustments to the length:
Yeah, I know, it's wide. Eh sa malaki balakang ko talaga eh! Tsaka butt ko! Kebs, at least may "reason" kunyari -- nanganak nako :P
And of course to see if it works on my body:
Too short ba?
Oh well, I'll be taking it out for a test run this Saturday night ;) I'll bring an extra pair of jeans just in case the glued-on seams pop out hahaha.
nicely done!
ReplyDeleteay lavhet! diba sulit ang sew no more? eheheheh..
ReplyDelete@ana, thank you! :D less than 1 hour yan!
ReplyDelete@abi, super sulit! kakainis lang yung amoy. hehehe.
Naks! Ganda naman ng legs! Bagay ang skirt sistah!
ReplyDeleteAw! Ang galing naman. Padalhan mo ako ng sew-no-more dito at tinatamad ako most of the time nyehehehe.
ReplyDelete@toni ahahha, buti na lang madilim yung shot :P di kita mga peklats :P
ReplyDelete@meemax, sige sige next time na may bumisita from the land of the rising sun (tama ba?!?)
astig!
ReplyDelete@meldita salamat! :D
ReplyDeletei want!! hehe ok na idea yan ah!! hehe baka eto na ang moment ko para mag skirt. haha!
ReplyDelete@haze tipid pa!!! :D walang kelangang moment para magskirt! puede dapat lagi! ehehehe.
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