Dress to Girls Skirt

My daughter woke this morning asking if she could do some sewing today.  So she headed off to look for ideas in a lovely kids sewing book - 'We Love To Sew' by Annabel Wrigley, that she had been given for her birthday.  She decided she wanted to make the 'Super-Simple Skirt', which we adapted so it would be a 'refashion', rather than a new sew.

We started with this womans dress, which she was VERY unimpressed by...

The top of the dress was chopped off.

 A new hem was sewn, as the original hem was not straight.

A waist band was created using wide elastic.

Which was then attached - but unfortunately, this part was actually quite fiddly, and didn't really fit the title of being 'super-simple'. 

The finished skirt is quite cute, but little miss wanted no part in finding something that matched it, and took great pleasure running around the yard giggling as I tried to get a photo that would show the finished product.