Lately I’ve been seeing people talking about ‘thrift flipping’ and, since my family dresses modestly and it’s been getting harder to find modest clothing in stores, we decided that we should make our own clothing. My mom and I went to a thrift store and I found a few pairs of jeans, a bit to big for myself, and immediately thought of making a denim skirt.
Of course, as any excited child would, as soon as we got home I started tearing apart the poor, unsuspecting jeans with some itty bitty scissors and cut a waist for the skirt. Over the span of a week I had taken apart one pair of jean, and started on the next.
Honestly, I did not know that simply tearing some seams would take so long. I spent a good 6.5 hours in total, at least, just sitting on the floor with some scissors and a pair of jeans, I hadn’t even started sticking the pins in. Eventually I had both pairs of jeans cut into 8 panels and everything pinned and ready to sew!
The sewing took me only two days, (and part of that’s cause I ran out of thread and broke a needle…oops). After I had the waist and all of the panels sewn I had to attach the waist to the skirt.
Attaching the skirt to the waist was probably the hardest part for me. Not all of it was even and there were some parts that stuck out from the rest of the skirt. However, this was only my first attempt at making a skirt and there were definitely some lessons learned during the process, but I don’t think it turned out so bad.
Birds of a Feather Stuck Together 
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