The Little Yellow Skirt: Introducing Britnee

The Little Yellow Skirt

Introducing Britnee

Although I still have a few days left of Ellee's outfits, I decided to take a break and introduce you to another daughter of mine...Britnee.  She's my sweet 17 year old that graduates this year.  She recently got a "big girl job" and was needing some decent dress outfits that were appropriate to wear to work.  She's a rather petite girl and perhaps a bit picky about what she likes;), but we were able to find this cute dress.  The only problem was the top was not sufficient to wear to work, so it was time to do a refashion.

The dress that we started with

sewing the ends together with a zig zag stitch

First I cut the top off of the skirt right at the seam line.  I left in the elastic waist, at least to start with.


Next, I cut a 3 inch black elastic band the length of Britnee's waist.  Then I zig zagged the ends together, making a circle.

What it looked like with the ends sewed

After making a circle, I flipped the skirt inside out and pinned the top to the belt, the right side was flat against the back of the belt.

I sewed double stitches (using a very wide stitch) making sure to sew as close to the edge as possible.  The second stitch was put on there to hold the fabric flat against the belt.

After everything was sewn together, I took out the elastic that was already sewed in the skirt.  This took FOREVER and it was a pain in the butt, but it had to be done.

All stitches out and ready to wear.

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