We have always been a fan of Mr. Putter Books. So when I saw these dish towels on sale ( a while back ) at Target, I knew that they would make a perfect,
“Mr. Putter & Tabby Pick the Pears, Skirt!”
I started out by cutting off all the folded edges.
Then sewed the right sides together of my 3 dish towels
( enclosing all sides, making one skirt )
I then finished my edges with a Serger and Ironed my seems.
I evened out my top and bottom edge. Then cut a 3 inc strip for my waist band and gathered the top of my skirt.
I finished the top edge of my waistband and pressed it over about an inch and a half. Sewed the right sides together of my waistband ends and top stitched leaving about a 3 inch opening for my elastic to go through.
Taking my waistband and skirt, I then pinned right sides together.
Sewed and finished the raw edge. I then put my elastic through and stitched the opening closed.
For the shirt I simply copied one of the pears off of the towel and traced it onto to some heat and bond and ironed it onto my shirt and finished with a zig zag stitch.
We LOVE how it came out and we LOVE having our Mr. Putter & Tabby Pick the Pears, Skirt.
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Oh that is a total Awwwww skirt and shirt and that “peared” with the boots!
Love it!
Hugs,
Sandy
Oh my sweetness! It is absolutely gorgeous! Mary-Kate would love one! Do you have a shop???
AAHH!!! Thank you, Jessica. I actually use to have a small children’s line in local stores here. : )
You are so creative. I love the pear skirt. I have seen this pattern at Target. Wonderful idea:)
Thank you, Dawn. : )
Too cute! And you have the sweetest models! I wish I had time to make things like this.
This is fantastic! I love it! I’ll have to keep my eye out for cute towels. I’ll bet they’ll have some cute ones for Valentine’s Day and they’ll be 1/2 off after Valentine’s!
Hi, Leigh Ann. How are you? Yes , they always have ADORABLE Valentines dish towels
I made one for me last year out of dish towels. 
That is too, too cute and YOU are amazing! xo Diana
This is as darling as darling can get! I always love your gorgeous little model too.
So very cute – but here I was wishing it was an adult sized skirt! How about it Angelina?
What a darling skirt!! I can’t believe it came from dish towels! The whole outfit is just precious together! I adore the Mr. Putter books as well.
Thank you, Jenny. Yes, aren’t the Mr.Putter books just so VERY sweet!
What a cute outfit! Fun and easy, that’s my kind of sewing!
This is super cute! I love the idea of using towels for a skirt.
Thank you, Amanda
This is the cutest little outfit….totally making me wish I could sew! I would make it for my daughters!
Oh that is so funny! I did the same thing last year with Target’s apple dishtowels~
http://www.welcometothemousehouse.com/2012/04/thirty-minute-tea-towel-skirt-tutorial.html
the pears are adorable!
AAAAHH! Thank you, Hayley. I actually made one Last year for Valentines for myself out of Heart Dish Towels and loved it so much and so did my daughter’s (as usual : ) .. http://jojoandeloise.com/2012/02/diy-dish-towel-skirt/ thank you so much for stopping in and visiting
It is so awesome! I love your version of it with the band… I will try that out! I love that we have an idea and we all put our own twist on it!!!
And I am STILL in love with your circus outfit from a while ago… it was amaze-balls
This is so beautiful! What a wonderful idea! I would love it if you would submit it on my website! I would surely feature it!
Susan @ Oh My! Creative
I love your pear outfit made from dish towels! I have the same ones and when I saw them I thought they’d make the cutest outfit, along the same lines of what you did. But that never went past thought for me. I was so excited to see how you made yours and by how cute they turned out! Thank you for linking it up to A Crafty Soiree, I’ve featured your post in this week’s newest. It will be up at midnight EST and I hope you’ll come by to see it and share more of your crafty skills with me and my co-hostess Malia from Yesterday on Tuesday.
Katie, I am so sorry I didn’t respond to your comment. I actually just found it in my Spam last night.
Thank you so much for the feature. You are ALWAYS so very SWEET!!! xo