Calvin Ain't Got Nuttin' On Me

spring has sprung, the weather's finally getting nice and that means one thing ... it's garage sale season !!! woo hoo !

my mother in law and i love going to garage sales together, and we do it every year.. and there's only one thing we like better ... and that's a church sale !! double woo hoo ! they're the best cuz they have the fill a bag for a buck sales ..
 
one of the last ones we went to i crammed a bag and a half full of nothing but mens' ties .. i walked outta there w/almost 300 ties ..

... they range in designers from giorgio armani to the local guy down there street .. and styles, stripes and paisleys of all kinds, colors, and shapes that you cold possibly imagine from the late 60's until the current day ..

all for just a buck and a half - what a bawwgin !   =p

here's how i plan on using them ...

here's what ( i thought was pretty clever ) to do w/the scraps ..

.. might have to try that too

i filled a bag at that same church sale full of jeans for a buck too
... in that bag, i packed a pair of calvin klein jeans, my fav's, and they're 3 sizes too small for me ... ( when i get the new meds, all that'll change .. ) .. i love them so much and they're in such fabulous shape, i couldn't just leave them there

soooooooo, in order to fit my fat ass into a pair of jeans 3 sizes too small, something had to change ..

k, here are the jeans ...

i sliced them open at the outter seams ...

sewed some 2" square strips of fabric together in a row ...

and sewed that strip to the sliced open halves of my, 3 sizes too small, jeans ...

.. then sew the leg seams back together

i also sewed some bias tape as trim around the ankles ..

not sure about the top yet .. i might leave it, i might cut them into really low low riders .. not sure yet ..

... there's only 3 different floral squares repeated in the whole sequence ...

i really had alotta fun w/this ... this is as far as i've gotten so far .. i might work on the other side tonight, or i might just leave it for tomorrow ..

.. and if all goes well, by tomorrow i can say i'm 3 sizes smaller then i was yesterday   =)