Upcycled Skirt from Thrifted Shirt

Hey there.  MysticMandy here from Mandy Made.  Today I wanted to share one of my daughter's favorite skirts.  This is a project I actually did a month ago.  But it's fun and summery so I thought I would share it here.

I found this shirt at a thrift store a few months ago thinking it would make a cute dress.  My very headstrong daughter had other ideas in mind.  She is so into skirts right now.  At first I was disappointed and tried to convince her that a dress is waaaay-cooler because I didn't think a skirt would give me much of a challenge or creative possibilities. All I would have to do it cut it off under the bibby-thingy and add some elastic at the waist... BOOOOWING! 

But then I got the idea to completely deconstruct the shirt so that I would lose all of the shirt's structure and would basically be working with small bits of fabric.  So... after deconstructing the shirt I had something that looked like this.  Tiered skirts are very popular now and I figured that all of these little pieces would lend themselves to that kind of design.

Being the cheap (*ahem* thrifty) crafting-mom that I am, I used this piece of lace that has been sitting in my craft bin for... oh.... perhaps a decade or more.  I think it originated from my mom's stash that was also quite old.  So, let's just say it's aged.  


I filled it out with some tulle on the inside and I even used some reeeaally old elastic (maybe even older than the lace) for the waistband. 


For a complete tutorial, feel free to check out my post here.  I love visitors :)