depends on how prolific a sewer the person is and how they will take it. Some of us (me) sew so much that we are happy to get rid of something and if somebody else alters it, more power to them. I'm kind of in the same boat right now, a friend gave me the first thing she ever sewed because she couldn't get the waist right, but I didn't want a skirt that style so I asked if I could make something totally new and she said it was OK, but I've got so many other projects I want to do I wonder if I'll ever get to it.

Why don't you ask her? If she was getting rid of them she probably isn't too attached to them, since you seem worried about it, you should ask.

Jenna,

silly girl, you're on the *Reconstructed Clothing* tribe. That's what reconstructing is... cutting up and altering existing clothing to create something else. it's not stealing. you're not taking their design. you're not shoplifting the original item. it's yours because you paid for it or it was gifted to you. Once you own it you can do whatever you want with it. sometimes that's reconstructing it, sometimes that's deconstructing. sometimes you throw it out. but there's nothing morally or legally wrong with cutting up clothing to reuse the fabric or the garment structure for something else. I mean, that's the definition of reconstructing.

From my view, every creation begins with destruction. And one is not "good" nor the other "bad." Both simply are - and both are quite necessary to the other.

So I say: Start cutting and re-creating! DOn't judge--just have fun! :)