Wardrobe refashion: skirt to baking apron!

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A while ago, a neighbour dropped around a whole heap of clothes to see if I wanted any. She is tiny, which is one thing, but even if she wasn't her taste in clothes is polar opposite to mine. So I gave them all back bar one: a pale pink skirt with white spots that was miles too small. Here is what I came up with:









Skip this next part if you don't care about sewing.

Disassembling
The bloody skirt had to have a side zip, didn't it? So I unpicked that out. I also unpicked the panel at the very back of the skirt, cut it from the band and cut the exposed band in half. I cut this loose panel I now had into two strips, as wide as I could manage from the trapezoid fabric.

Reassembling
I sewed tubes out of the two strips, turning them inside out with a safety pin attached to the end. Then I pinned and sewed together the seams from where the zip was. I also had to neaten this area up by overstitching some loose bits of band down, by hand.
I inserted the tubes into the cut band ends from the back of the skirt, turning the edges in and hand sewing the band ends shut. I then sewed the loose ends of the tubes shut as well.
The last step was hemming the unpicked panel edges from where the back panel was removed.