Skirt Attempt Numero Dos

I attempted to help my friend make a skirt one Sunday afternoon. We used this tutorial from Susan Petersen's freshlypicked blog.  I've made a few skirts using this tutorial, but somehow I forgot that I like my skirts better when I cut the skirt a few inches slimmer than what the tutorial suggests. That gross error resulted in a skirt that was very cute, but quite a bit puffy and drowning. Since we were not going for the prego look prematurely, we decided to re-work the skirt. 

Here's the before alterations pic. 

Of course she looks darling in everything, 

and you can't tell so well in the pic,

 but the skirt really was quite a bit too large. 

So we unpicked the waist band...

Holy mama check out all that material!

One side was cut down slimmer by about 14 inches. Yikes. 

The pocket of the trimmed side was re-pinned in place...

and re-sewn.

Check out how much we trimmed down on this skirt!

Ta da!

Now we have a super cute girl in a super cute skirt!

THAT was the plan the whole time.

It just took us 2 tries to achieve success.

So the moral of this story is:

Don't give up on your sewing projects if they don't turn out quite right.

It only took us another hour to make a semi cute skirt

into a smokin hot skirt:)