jeans from jeans

Here we have some jeans I made for Zora out of some of my old pre-pregnancy jeans. I don't think they would have ever made it past my knees again, so they were turned into our favorite baby jeans. I used the bottoms - so I only had to sew up the crotch and waistband - they were already hemmed at the bottom and seamed at the sides. I don't like the store-bought jeans for babies, because they seem so cumbersome with all of their pockets and buttons and frills. Here they are serving their purpose - getting dirty: