what viv did: Upcycle Boys Pants Into Girls Pants

So I had a boy first. I couldn't stand getting rid of everything of his, so I kept some of it in hopes of upcycling it into something girly.

Addie was wearing these today and it hit me like a ton of bricks what I wanted to do. At lunch, I told hubs that I was going to add hot pink ruffles to the bottom and a pink heart on the bum.

He looked at me like I was crazy, which he often does, but even he couldn't help but notice how ridiculously cute these were on our little sweet pea when all was said and done. So...let's make some for your gal, shall we?

Just to clarify, I had about 10" in width of this fabric when I started, which I knew would be way more than enough for both legs. You can only do the fold-in-half trick if you have enough for both legs after cutting in half. Since I lopped off about 1.5" of the pants and I knew they were about an inch too short on Adalyn to begin with, I assumed making a 2.5" ruffle was going to work out best, and that's exactly what ended up fitting her perfectly. So if I were doing it "correcly" and hemming up the pants and doing correct measurements, it would have looked like this: 2 strips of 3" x 18" fabric. (I got 3 inches by adding a .5" inseam. If you truly hem the bottom, you have to add that, too, which would be another .5" at least, making the strips 3.5" x 18"). Does that make sense?