Jean Top Skirts

I have been wanting to make the girls skirts using the tops of jeans for the top.  I didn't see any of their jeans that had holes in the knees and it just seemed wrong to take perfectly good jeans just to cut the tops off for skirts!  But then I found a stash of mending hidden away (gasp!) and among it were cut off jeans in both girls' sizes!  So I packed up my new sewing machine (yay!), supplies, and the kids and headed to my mom's so we could figure on them.  The girls picked out the fabric they wanted and we set to work measuring and pinning.  This was the result...

I used one of the decorative stitches for the hems ♥

Emily's didn't have pockets, so I added patch pockets

My Silly Son

Emily found her dress from Sunday and decided to put it on. William then decided he should wear Sarah's.