Hello Hive

It is like a dream come through for Ana after she eventually gets very very first flair skirt. Every now and then she kept telling me to sew her a skirt and how she needed one desperately. Teenagers and young girls if her age desires something like this weather they say it or not.

There are a lot of ways my young girl wants to slay in her skirt. I have never got to sew her one since she became a teenager. I have stuck with sewing her dress and ball gowns until the day she finally summoned courage and opened up to tell me that she has had enough of the ball dresses and now wants something different and typically of a young adult.

My baby is growing up real fast and she already feeling like a young adult and want to be treated as such regardless of her age.

While I am yet unable to purchase more fabrics to sew her some matured outfits I decided to recycle this beautiful dress for her.

This is one of the dresses I have seen for her about 4 years when she was much younger. In just 4years she had grown so tall and outgrown the dress.

Rather than throw it away we decided to recycle it and make it useful for a second time.

I left her with the task of ribbing off the seams of the skirt here. One way or the other she is fastly picking sewing skills from me.
After opening up the skirt, I recut it to her waist measurement here

Next I remembered that I had a 3" elastic at home I have bought for a specific purpose. Since the fabric is a foam material, it will be different to fix a zipper on it hence I opted for the elastic band instead.

I measured out the midpoint and the her waist measurement and cut it
Attached the elastic to the waist and then stitched up the seam allowance. Kk

The elastic band is black in color, as black and white are the only two colors available for making this kind of elastic

That was done and our flair skirt is ready. The rest part of the clothes is still here and I hope I can get some other material to finish that help and gift them to charity.

What color of color of blouse can you recommend that will fit Anastasia. Slept well?