Sleeves to Skirt

For Christmas, I made my sister a blanket out of 6 sweaters I got at the thrift store and ended up with 6 pairs of leftover sleeves.  I really liked the striped one and thought it would make a cute skirt.  So I ripped open all four sleeves along the seam lines and cut off the sleeve caps at the top to straighten them.  All the sleeves have the cuff along the bottom edge of the skirt to have a finished edge.  I had to do a lot of pinning and repinning to get it to fit right in the both the back and the front. You have to allow more fabric in the back, of course.  I used the entire striped sleeve, but the gray one had parts left over at the top. Then, I was lucky that the gray sweater had a turtleneck because that became the waistband. 

I think the other four sleeves will become bags though, because I probably wouldn't wear those particular patterns as skirts.  I have some other sweater refashions up my sleeve first though that I'm excited about . . .