I’ve been wanting a green skirt for a while, and this one jumped out at me - not because it was fantastic in its current form [hello elastic sweatpants-esque waistband], but because I had an inkling that there was enough fabric there to make it into a pencil skirt from an vintage McCalls pattern I got a while ago. It was pretty darn close, but it worked!
I had to put in a zipper and a couple of hooks & eyes, so altogether this skirt set me back around $5. Sounds good to me! That's another good thing about looking at clothes that are too big for you at Goodwill - if there's enough excess fabric, it's cheaper than going and buying a couple of yards of fabric to sew something from scratch. And if you play it right, some of the work is done for you - I didn't have to hem this skirt, which was awesome.
