Frugal Fridays: Recycling kids pants

Every spring things are new. Birds are out, the flowers are blooming, and most of us are spring cleaning. For us pants find new life. Yes I said pants :)

If you're like me you go to your local big name brand store and look around for kids clothes only to find today's styles are hmmm... lacking. Most of the items for girls especially today are either too short, too low, too thin, and too provocative. So what are our girls to do? Wear pants all summer? So here's how we repurpose, recycle, and reuse winter pants!

Step 1: Cut about 2 inches BELOW to desired length

For us desired length is roughly 1 inch below the knee so I usually cut at the top of the calf.

Step 2: Hem

Now the hem on pants can go either rolled two time to the inside or rolled two times to the outside and both ways give a very different look so play around BEFORE you start sewing.

One side rolled inward and one side rolled outward

Step 3: WEAR!

Now the thing to remember is hemming is easier on thinner material. If you try to hem thick fleece or jeans REMEMBER GO SLOW! Or you will break your needle (yeah like any of us would ever do that...doing my best face of Homer Simpson- Doh!)

Step 4: Try it on shirts :)

But remember rolling on shirts is more important than pants. If you roll outward it might look funny- like so:

Ahhh who cares right! They're little girls :)  So save yourself some bucks. Reuse those old winter clothes that are on their last leg, and have fun and enjoy the warm weather!