Well this is what I did with one of my favourite sweaters that had worn out (big holes in a few places that would not look great mended). I pretty much chopped off the entire ‘body’ section and turned it upside down, making a knitted tube…

Then I folded what had been the bottom ribbing of my sweater over, stitched it down to make a channel and threaded waist elastic into it. That was the waist of the skirt finished.

Then I got my all-time favourite cashmere blend knitted yoga pants, which I had literally worn to shreds, and cut a couple of nice big strips from each leg. I folded the strips double, and machine stitched the ‘fold’ edge onto my sweater skirt, covering the ‘raw’ edge of the brown sweater fabric, that I had made when I hacked the neck and arm section of the garment off.

Job done! And two of my favourite garments live on in a new incarnation for a little longer.