Little Girl's Modest Skirt Makeover {Finished Friday #44} come and link up your projects, too!

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I've had a pile of little girls' skirts waiting for alterations for several months. Someone had generously passed down several size 2T skirts with sewn in shorts for Eliya, but they are shorter than we prefer. While I still have a lot to alter, I was able to get one lengthened this week.

The best thing about this project was that it was completely free. The skirt was given to us, the thread was from my stash, and the fabric that I used to lengthen the skirt was a t-shirt from my knit stash.

I was a little limited in my lengthening style because I didn't have enough fabric to gather into another ruffle, but for a play skirt it works just fine.

To lengthen the skirt I simply sewed rectangles of solid pink knit together to form a tube the same circumference as the bottom hem of the skirt. Then I pinned and sewed the pink layer to the existing bottom and hemmed the new bottom.

Of course, the only picture I have of her wearing it is when she woke up too early from her nap and decided to rest a little longer on top of the kids' table. (She then promptly got the skirt so dirty it had to be thrown in the wash.)

I'm adding this skirt alteration to Kristin's summer challenge.

Today's Questions: Have you ever altered clothing for yourself or your children? What is your go to alteration?

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