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DIY - Weird Shorts to Cute Skirt

So I found this semi-disgusting pair of shorts at my favorite thrift store in all of Chicago (oddly the mustard square-neck t-shirt paired with it is from there too!)   Dorky.  I actually saw recently over on Annika's blog from  The Pine Needle Collective  (who I follow and I think is super-adorable!) that  she  had found a pair of " skirt shorts " and was asking people on her blog what she should do with them.    I fell in love with the color and style of the pattern even though they're golfers.  To me, it was a no-brainer as to what I was going to do with them - make them into a skirt! This is super-quick and can be done in about an hour or so. You can do this with virtually any pair of shorts.  First, rip open the seams with a seam-ripper up to the rise of the shorts.   Next, I pin together the vertical seam where I just ripped it to align it to a straight hem.   Pinning...