Skirt Refashion

Happy Thursday!!  A few weeks ago we were in Walmart buying pull-ups (I swear there is some diaper eating monster in our house - we are ALWAYS at the store buying more!), and back by the kids stuff there were a few racks of random clearance items.  So of course I stopped...and spied this:

 

Um, yeah that is polyester.  And no, that style would NEVER look good on me - I am neither 5'9" nor am I 110 lbs.  But...it was $3.  I've seen some awesome refashions out there in bloggyland and I thought, "Hey, I could do something with this - its $3!" (I might have said this out loud - sorry to anyone who witnessed my crazy-lady ramblings).  Well, I finally took the plunge into the refashioning pool, and decided to turn this shirt into a cute skirt.  

Luckily for me the side seams were almost perfect as is.  So I used another skirt as a pattern and cut the shirt right at the armpits - straight across.  Then I took a old lyrca halter top (um, yeah...pre-baby...I'm never wearing that thing again) and cut off the bottom 7 inches. 

Then it was just a matter of pinning the two pieces together (gathering the shirt a little as I went) and then sewing the pieces together.  Viola a new skirt for Mama:

And in case you're wondering.  I did buy another one...it will be joining it's sister as a new skirt soon.