Denim Crafts: Baby Skirt

Babies change everything (except their own diapers- Mr. Bacon).

Now, before you people get all excited, I am still not pregnant. Yes, my pinterest will sometimes flood with baby/parenting related things, but that is because I am obsessed with babies, and has nothing to do with the vacancy status of my uterus. Please stop telling other people that you heard from someone that I am pregnant, or asking me when I'm going to start popping out children, or hinting that I should start popping them out now that I am done with school. Frankly, not only is it none of your business and annoying, but it also makes the part of me that is insane enough to want to have a baby right now want to cry. 

On a happier note, one of my best friends was recently blessed with a little baby girl. Aren't they beautiful?

Learning how to share her mother has been difficult, but this little princess being here is so worth it. One of my favorite perks is that I now have an excuse to make adorable baby things like this little skirt 

I started off with an old pair of jeans that I've had since high school. I liked the overall fit, but didn't wear them very much. Normally, denim and sewing machines do not get along well, but this denim was really thin and stretchy, so it happened to work okay.

I already knew that I wanted to make capris out of the jeans for summer wear, since my only non-work capris had an unfortunate mishap with bleach a week or so before this. I measured out what I wanted for the capris and chopped the bottoms off, and made my capris. I was going to make these adorable denim baby bibs from the bottom flairs, but having spent my allotted "fun money" for the month and not having adequate fabric to use for the project, I decided to try to make a variation of a circle skirt using the flair as a circle. 

Denim frays so I created a "hem" around the top part of the skirt. I then folded over the hem again and sewed a casing for the elastic, threaded the elastic through, tied it off, and sewed the casing closed. (Sorry, these steps don't have pictures. I don't remember if my camera was not cooperating or just M.I.A. There are  plenty of tutorials on how to make an elastic casing, like here). 

As you can see in the picture, the bottom of my jeans were frayed from when I actually wore them. I didn't want the bottom of my skirt to be already damaged, so I trimmed those off and re-hemmed them. I found the precious white lace on the bottom of the skirt at Wal-Mart and I stitched that on after the new hem was on, mostly because the lace is adorable, but also partially because I wanted to hide the stitching from making the new hem. 

The new skirt was given to dad at church because mom and baby were out of town, so I don't have any pictures of the princess wearing her skirt yet, but I will be sure to update as soon as I do!