I'm so cool!

I made DD a skirt out of a pair of Bernie sk8tr jeans - the ones that are really wide-legged and drag on the floor. They're black, and I used grey and white camoflauge fabric to fill in the triangle. The resulting skirt is floorlength and still drags along the floor, which is wretched when it rains but she loves it.

This is the method:

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Anyway, she wore it to go shopping to a really cool, sorry, kewl shop in the nearby city and the man behind the counter not only asked her where she'd bought it, he got on the phone to the shop's designer to try to talk her into getting some made!

This is the first time something I've made for DD has been acceptable to be worn in public since she was four. She's 12 now. Wow, at 45, am I cool?

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Sally Holmes
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Yes, you are cool!! I have also made one of these, for me. I was so happy with it, I bought a ton of old jeans in all sizes at flea markets to make skirts for my daughters. (I haven't gotten a round tuit yet but I will). Perhaps DD with want you to make her more things now that your coolness has been established. My oldest is 9 so I am still cool but just barely.

Kirsten Sollie

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Kirsten H. Sollie

I bought a load of old jeans to make a jeans quilt. One day, one day...

She's realising that if she carries on growing at the rate she's going she'll have to either learn to sew, butter me up or pay a fortune for trousers at Long Tall Sally. Which do you think she'll think is easier? :-)

Sally H

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Sally Holmes

Nominating Sally for the Major Achievement Award.

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Joanne

Ded chilly, ma'am! Well done! That does sound like a fun skirt!

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Kate Dicey

"Sally Holmes" scribbled in news:umZeb.21$Ty5.11@news- binary.blueyonder.co.uk:

You got me dog trippin, boo.

Congrats!

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Donna

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AHHH!!! Flashback to my high school days!

Now my 7yo DD wants me to do that with a pair of jeans that she'd torn the knees out of. Weekend project, I guess!

It is always very cool when our materialist children give us "props" for our talents.

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Poohma

Well done, Sally.

You've achieved a near-impossible task there - to be a kewl mum!

:) Trish

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Trishty

You not just cool. Girl!! You Freezin'. ;)

Tell her you can add some bling bling to the next skirt. Put some beaded fringe trim at the hem (if it's not dragging the floor.) Or some of the iron on metal studs and/or crystals along the flat felled seams. Around here, there's two ways to go: 1. Goth: Everything in black, with lots of lace and sheer accents. 2. Blinding in sunlight: complete opposite of goth, the more sparkle the better.

My not quite 12 year old is leaning more towards the second. But, thankfully, is still somewhere in the middle. I'll be making jeans here soon. Between us moms, I'll likely hem them the way she likes, so she steps on the backs. I don't have to like it, but I will do it. lol

Sharon

---basking in the glow of Sally's coolness.

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Mike and Sharon Hays

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Elizabeth Hall

Re: I'm so cool! snipped-for-privacy@autopromk.freeserve.co.uk (Elizabeth=A0Hall) Congratulations on your success with your DD This will give you lots of practice for when grandchildren come along. I sew for my grandaughters aged 9 (I am 60) and love it. I learn so much from them - it's supposed to be the other way round, and they tell me I am a cool Nan. Liz

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