Refashioning Child's Pants to Capris

I want to share a quick refashion with you.
My friend Steph gave me her son's pants.

It has holes at the knees, but otherwise it is in great shape. Anyway, she thought that I may be able to use the fabric to make some Barbie clothes. Little does she know that my kids' Barbies are pretty much neglected.
Since it is a slightly bigger size than my daughter would wear, I thought I would patch us the knees in a pretty manner and let her wear it. However, just the thought of trying to patch jeans at the knees gives me the willies. There would be too much struggling with machine and jeans!

So, what I did instead, was to cut off the jeans just above the knees, and added some ruffles to the bottom. I used the fabric salvaged from a previous refashion.
I quite like it. It's actually quite sweet!

Here's an action shot. Notice miss daredevil imitating a cat by squeezing herself into a small tub. Sigh.... I was about to say, "No!! Out of there at once!". However, I just looked at her, shook my head and took lots of silly pictures for the record.