When a skirt rips at the seams....

...it is time to do something. The waist on this skirt had always been too narrow, and when I accidentally ripped the side seam, the skirt took the desicion for me to refashion it.

I cut off the top part.

Then I completely deconstructed the skirt and rebuilt it again (see blogpost here: http://saga-i-farver.blogspot.dk/2014/11/50ernederdel-til-skaternederdel.html?m=1 ).

I cut the zipper off with the fabric around it, the overlay and that [little piece of fabric with a buttonhole in it, at the top of zippers]. 

When I was about to separate the zipper from that fabric I wondered (out of laziness) I could just sew the whole thing on again. 

And it worked! And i allowed me to preserve the overlay and the buttonhole-thing. It actually looks better than the bare zipper would have.

Finished shorter and waist-fitting skirt.

 Blog: http://www.sagaifarver.dk