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march challenge

Green challenge: old into new baby girl skirt
Fabric: blue (the next shirt is GREEN) stripe maternity shirt
Pattern: baby girl's waist
Other finished GREEN projects:

I was cleaning out my closet by filling a bag of unused, old, ugly, outdated clothes to take to goodwill and decided I would try to re-use/recycle some goods. I have a stack of shirts to turn into skirts & dresses for my little girl and can't wait to see how they turn out. Nothing too fancy or too fun for this month's challenge, but I learned something new, created something great, and am finding other ways to go GREEN. More GREEN projects coming for this month.
This....

blue stripe shirt
into this.

blue stripe skirt
Here are a few other projects finished for my "march challenge: green."
This...

into this...

This...used to be a long-sleeved button-up shirt of mine that I NEVER wore...turned into this...

see amazing shirt dress tutorial here.
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  1. UnknownMarch 20, 2010 at 2:51 PM

    Oh my gosh I LOVE it!! SOOO cute. You are soo talented! If we lived closer I would pay you to make my little girl some things :)

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  2. AnonymousMarch 23, 2010 at 10:24 AM

    Too CaUTE! You're so creative. Love it! -Mary

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  3. Elder and Sister LonghurstApril 4, 2010 at 2:58 PM

    Ok - it's late, but my March challenge is posted on my blog! I need to have you teach me how to link it.

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