{"id":2892,"date":"2014-05-28T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2014-05-28T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:43:19","slug":"upcycle-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/upcycle-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Old Sweat Pants into a Doll&#8217;s Skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We are delighted to welcome back our dear friend Ellen for another guest post. Ellen and her mom are absolute whizzes at re-purposing. Thanks for sharing your clever ideas with us, Ellen!\u00a0<em><br \/>\n&#8211; Abbie and Mrs. Brown<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you may remember from <a title=\"Make a Doll Apron from a Tea Towel\" href=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/doll-apron\/\" target=\"_blank\">our last guest post<\/a>, we enjoy taking old things and giving them new life. My mom had an old pair of sweat pants that had holes in the knees. As she was messing around with her scissors and the pants, she discovered that the ankle makes a great doll skirt!<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a pair of old sweat pants here\u2019s how to make your doll a skirt:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Supplies<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old sweat pants<\/li>\n<li>Scissors<\/li>\n<li>Trim (optional)<\/li>\n<li>Needle and thread to sew on the optional trim<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Directions<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>First, lay the leg of your sweat pants with the ankle elastic at the doll\u2019s waist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/upcycl-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt\/measure-skirt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2897\" alt=\"make a doll skirt from old sweatpants - blossomsandposies.com\" src=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/measure-skirt.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/measure-skirt.jpg 645w, https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/measure-skirt-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next, cut the leg so that your doll\u2019s skirt is the length she likes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/upcycl-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt\/measured-cut\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2900\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2900\" alt=\"make a doll skirt from old sweatpants - blossomsandposies.com\" src=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/measured-cut.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/measured-cut.jpg 645w, https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/measured-cut-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/upcycl-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt\/cut-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2899\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2899\" alt=\"make a doll skirt from old sweatpants - blossomsandposies.com\" src=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cut.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cut.jpg 645w, https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cut-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all there is to it! You can, of course, trim the bottom edge with pompoms, rick rack, ribbon, or anything you want!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/upcycl-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt\/sweatpant-skirt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2898\" alt=\"make a doll skirt from old sweatpants - blossomsandposies.com\" src=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sweatpant-skirt.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sweatpant-skirt.jpg 645w, https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sweatpant-skirt-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now send your doll out for a little jog! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/upcycl-sweat-pants-into-a-doll-skirt\/guest-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2895\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2895\" alt=\"guest\" src=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/guest1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/guest1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/guest1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to welcome back our dear friend Ellen for another guest post. Ellen and her mom are absolute whizzes at re-purposing. Thanks for sharing your clever ideas with us, Ellen!\u00a0 &#8211; Abbie and Mrs. Brown As you may remember from our last guest post, we enjoy taking old things and giving them new life. My mom had an old pair of sweat pants that had holes in the knees. As she was messing around with her scissors and the pants, she discovered that the ankle makes a great doll skirt! So if you have a pair of old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[44,188],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sewing","tag-doll-clothes","tag-upcycle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sweatpant-skirt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blossomsandposies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}