Last of the Winter Refashions

I haven't done any spring refashions yet, so here are two older ones. Both of these were free - given by a friend or swapped at a, well, swap - both did not require me to buy any notions, and both ended up with little or no waste. The sweater was an XL, but fit like a medium and was fine everywhere except that the sides of the waist were too big. The pants were those ultra-trendy ones of a few years ago, where you had to wear them with boots. I never liked the way this pair was so low-rise (and felt silly in them), and thought that since the legs were so wide, they would make a good pants-to-skirt refashion.

You can see on the before picture where I have pinned the sweater. After I sewed this and cut off the extra, I had two curved pieces. The sweater had seams up the sides, so I carefully ripped that out and ended up with 4 curved pieces, which I rolled up into 4 flowers. On the pants, I decided to use some of the extra fabric from the bottom (there was a lot in those cuffs) to insert 4 godets, one on each side and in the front and back. Thanks for looking!