Sewed a Skirt Using 2 Pair of Pants- sorry not a tutorial

I spent some time on Pinterest this morning (before I had planned to take a walk- bad idea) and found quite a few tutorials on how to make a skirt from pants. I have a few pair of pants that are too small, worn out or I simply do not like. But I’ve not gotten rid of them. I’ve been accused of being a pack-rat before.
Btw, that walk…it never happened.
I found two pair of pants- one that I wear when I don’t wish to put on ‘real pants’ that are extremely baggy because they’ve lost their elasticity. I think they have stretch in them. I have another pair of them, same size, different color and they kept their shape (wore those out- still have those, too, lol). I really like the material though of these pants so I’ve never gotten rid of them but rarely wear them. They make me look fat lol.
The other pair were a pair of velour (?) poop brown (lol!) that shrunk after washing –of course. They also have stretch in them and although thicker than the first pair I mentioned above, just a bit. I figured the cream color of the first and the brown (poop or otherwise) of the second would be complimentary.
And just so I’m clear –I don’t sew (well). I love the idea, but I’m not one to follow instructions well. Unfortunately. After just cutting, pinning, sewing and more of the same, here is what I made.

It’s got issues but it’s now my lounge skirt instead of pants I’m happy with it.
Now I’ve got 3 more pair of pants I want to cut up One is a dark blue heavy cotton that I want to pair with a light blue lightweight denim. I think the contrast, like the one above, will be nice. Oh, and here’s where I found my inspiration for this:
http://pinterest.com/pin/137359857356639130/ (or here if you don’t Pinterest)
http://pinterest.com/pin/137359857356639164/ (or here if you don’t Pinterest)
http://pinterest.com/pin/137359857356639155/ (or here…)
There’s lots of other sites with tutorials of course. Just google it.
And that is what I did today. I feel accomplished. Really I read on one of those posts (or a post somewhere) above that it was a quick 30 minutes –it took me hours.

Pinterest- I *Heart* You

Pinterest is taking the web by storm. Causing some swells along the way {you’ve heard of the possibility of infringing on copyrights, haven’t you?} but in general people are flocking to it with zeal! I’m actually just getting into it although I’ve been a member since almost the beginning.

I, for one, was not terribly impressed with it when it first was introduced to me. Not to say that I didn’t see the potential. Okay, okay, at first I truly did not see how awesome it could be.

But now… I pin something just about everyday. Why? Because the bookmarks I’ve created over the years from my browsers toolbar are next to useless to me. I cannot recall where I filed it under and I cannot recall what the website was titled {or what I chose to title it}. I’m pretty sure that I have quite a few duplicate bookmarks in that list. Sure of it.

With Pinterest I can *see* the bookmark. So even if I pinned it under, say, gardening {which I don’t appear to even have a board with that title- yet}, and it is truly clothing {and not related to gardening- who knows why I’d put it there- but it could happen }, I am able to *see* it.

And I love that it is a way to share bookmarks, share great sites {or just very interesting ideas}. There are *gulp* 175 ‘pinners’ that I follow which means to me that there are an exponential number of sites that I now have access to that I may not have even thought to look for before.

Oh, and if you are concerned that this is just another time leech- it can definitely be. Oh yes. But if we that worry about such things are careful, it can be an extremely useful resource. Perhaps use it for searching like you would your usual search engine. Or set a time limit…and stick to it

There is a search feature at the top of the site- type in what you are looking for and you are almost guaranteed with a nice return of results. {if you put in ‘Shamoo’, however, your results will be quite slim lol} The screenshot below is only a small part of the results for “classical education”…

Or for ‘blue’…

The pins go to websites that are commercial, personal, blogs, organizations, and just about anything else that you can think of. If it’s online, you can almost assuredly find a pin of it.

The *only* qualm I have with Pinterest is that the website must have an image to pin. I think it would be swell if there is *no image* that Pinterest could take a screenshot and pin that. That’d be just nifty.

Have you checked out Pinterest? Why or why not? If you do, how do *you* feel about it?