Thrifty Use for Old Jeans
May 10, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Reusing and Recycling, clothes, frugal living
Each year we have the same two problems:
1) My daughter outgrows almost all of her pants in the length.
2) It’s hard to find shorts that are long enough.
What is the deal with short shorts anyway????
This year, I decided to take some of her old jeans and try to make shorts out of them.
I cut the jeans right above the spot where she had wore out the knees. I was just going to roll them up,but decided they might unravel so I had my mom put a stitch in the bottom.
Ta-da. Now we have cute shorts that are long enough and they …read more
