This refashion is another one that began when I inherited my grandmother’s clothes after she passed over a year ago.  I loved the print and the soft blue color.  However, I felt it wasn’t something I would really wear, so it made for a perfect refashion.  That, and it was missing several buttons to begin with.

One of my friends suggested on Instagram that I refashion the top into a high-waisted skirt, and I loved the idea!  So I went with it.

Here are some of the steps involved:

• opened shoulder seams with seam ripper
• created new side seams for skirt
• removed extra yoke piece and sleeves
• created new waistband, attached it to skirt, and inserted Kam snaps on top
• added additional button holes, more buttons, and replaced missing buttons
• placed triangle piece of striped fabric into back of skirt to make it easier to walk in
• lowered hem about an inch

Full tutorial video below.

Again, here’s what we began with.

And here’s what we got!