The following is a reprint of the very first post I ever made on The Frugal Girl. For some reason, when I moved my posts to my current server, the pictures for this post went missing, and I’ve been meaning to fix that. A small handful of you may have seen this post before, but it will probably be new to the vast majority of you, seeing as I only had about 40 hits a day back then(and I thought 40 was a lot! lol)
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My daughter and I both had a pair of khaki pants that had some pretty darn near irreparable damage done to the knees…more than I was willing to mend, at least! A while back, I found a link to a site with a how-to on turning jeans into a skirt, and I figured that it could be done with khakis too. And, it can! Yay! I didn’t follow the directions exactly…I modified them so that my front seam is just straight. I hemmed my daughter’s skirt, and on mine, I’m trying a frayed hem. This picture was taken right after I made the skirt, and since then, the hem has frayed nicely.
I’m pretty pleased with the results. It wasn’t terribly hard or time-consuming to do, and it cost almost nothing. All I had to buy was a spool of khaki-colored thread, which will come in handy over time for sewing buttons(or maybe modifying more khaki pants!).
Oh, and my grandma(like many grandmas, I assume!) was a very frugal lady, having lived through the Depression. She’s now gone, but I often think that she’d be thrilled to see the frugal things that I do, and that’s the reason for the title of this post. 
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Nice! Tutorial?
Thanks for reminding me about this simple project for making a skirt out of old pants. I did it with a pair of jeans when I was a teenager and wore the skirt for years. It can also work with pants that are getting a little snug around the bum. Loosens things right up.
LOVE IT !
What a great idea! Now if i could just find a free sewing machine on craigslist.org…..
FG right now I get 30 hits or so a day and sometimes that makes me sad. So to see that you grew your hits warms my heart and give me hope for my own little sites!
I’m going to have to scope out my 8-year old’s dresser for jeans she’s outgrowing…some of those with the embroidery accents would just be too cute as a skirt!
Jess-check out the link! There are pictures and everything. I’ll take pics next time I make one, though. I promise. lol
Tammy-when I was getting 40 hits, I was actually really excited! I’d never had that many on my old blog. I guess my standards were a little on the low side(I’m easy to please!). Hang in there…keep writing and the readers should come.
Michelle-we put iron-on decorations on a skirt I made from my daughter’s jeans.
Haha! Well count me in as one of the 40 as I totally remember that post.
I do remember your yogurt post being the one that made me bookmark it.
Oh wow, you’ve been here from the beginning then, huh?
I need to re-do my yogurt post…the pictures are all way small on it. But I’m glad it made you bookmark me in spite of the small picture size!
And in spite of the fact that I’ve never actually made it myself. I do still the 38 cent cups at Walmart. Oh well, maybe if you could show a wa to make a good low-cal strawberry version I may take the plunge.
Sometime I want to try making my own cottage cheese but using a whole gallon of skim PLUS the half and half and salt and cheesecloth makes it a bit less than frugal.
I will have to try this….I am just getting my hands damp in the sewing world…it’s kind of scary to me……