She's Crafty...

I've been in crafty mom mode lately. When we lived in the arctic north (aka Chicago and New York), I used to knit. There was great satisfaction in creating something cozy and warm out of a ball of soft yarn. I spent hours in the knitting store planning my next creation and adding to my already overflowing stash of yarn. Perhaps it's the warm weather or maybe it's the children who now take up most of my time, but sometime after moving to Sunny Florida, I lost my itch to knit.

For my 16th birthday , Grandma bought me a Singer Sewing Machine. Although I wanted it, I never really did much with it - aside from the occasional scrunchie (Remember Scrunchies?) I would whip up.

About 6 months ago, I took it out of the garage and started playing around with it. My daughter is fairly small for her size. She's 4 and on the skinny side... I'm embarassed to admit that some of her shorts and skirts are size 2T. Fortunately she loves to wear dresses and tights - because pants that fit her in length won't stay up over her tiny tush!

I took an old dress that was beginning to get too short and a pair of shorts that fit her in the waist but were becoming inappropriately short shorts for a 4 year old!

I cut the bottom of the dress off directly below the first set of ruffles and then cut off the bottom of the shorts. I sewed the bottom of the dress onto the shorts and.... VOILA! A whole new take on an old favorite dress and a skirt that doesn't fall off her waist!!

The Kid looks adorable in her new outfit and Mommy is thinking about new crafts to keep her creative juices flowing!