A Recycled Skirt

I finally had some energy to do something so I decided to go for an easy project.  I have two pioneer skirts that I made more than ten years ago that I will probably never be able to wear again.  They would probably be too big even if I were pregnant with triplets!  So I have kept them and lugged them around and thought about getting rid of them, but they are so much fabric and I couldn't just get rid of them!  I could totally reuse that fabric!  So I finally did something about it.  Here is the original skirt with apron attached:

The first thing I did was to cut off the apron, then I cut the skirt in half where the zipper was.  I tried to save the zipper for another project but I wasn't being very careful and cut off part of it.  Then I cut off the waistline and that left me with this giant rectangle of blue fabric.  At this point I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the skirt, whether I wanted to cut it up to make something new or try and finagle something cute with the rectangle.  I went online and watched a few things about making wrap-around skirts and decided to go with that.   

So all I had to do was make the ties and hem the sides.  It was super easy.  Here is the finished skirt on the floor.  

Here I am wearing the skirt.  Most wrap-around skirts are made to wrap around your body one and a half times, leaving you enough give to walk but also being modest with no gaping parts.  For this one, I made it wrap around me twice because I wanted to be able to grow into it a little.  That makes it a little tight right now, but it'll loosen up soon enough.  

Here is the side view.  It may not be a totally new and exciting skirt but it is entirely more usable than the skirt it used to be.  And I still really like the fabric so I'm hoping to enjoy this skirt often.  And I'll only wear my red t-shirt with it on Fourth of July.