Pirate Vest

Easy Pirate Vest

Here is an easy-to-make Pirate vest and eyepatch for your favorite little pirate. Made from felt and shoelaces, there is no sewing required to make this pirate vest.

Need:

• Black felt material (if 36" wide or more, 1/2 yd will work)


• One pair of Shoelaces 54" cord-type


• Scissors


• Hole punch


• Elastic cord for eyepatch


• Chalk (optional, for marking)

What To Do:

1. Fold felt fabric in half, so that the length from the folded edge is 18 inches (or more if working with wider fabric).


2. Note that the folded area will serve as the shoulder area, so this must not be cut.


3. We started with a piece (folded) that was 14 x 18 inches, but prior to cutting your material you might need to make an adjustment in size, depending on the child. You might need to work larger or smaller, as the case may be.


4. Referring to the pattern, (you may want to draw chalk lines prior to cutting) cut out area for the side of the shoulder and the side taper.


5. Next ... cutting ONLY the top (front) cut straight up the center front. Then cut diagonal lines, as shown, to form the front.


6. Use a hole punch to make six holes (front and back) about an inch apart. Only cut one thickness of fabric at a time.


7. Lace sides with a shoelace and tie off at end of lacing. Tie off ends, about even with the bottom of the vest, then cut off excess.


8. Cut Eyepatch from area cut from side shoulder. Make two small holes to tie elastic cord through.


9. Now your Pirate is ready to go!

Easy sew Pirate vest

Easy Sew Pirate Vest

I found this tutorial on the web for making a pirate vest. The original post is in Italian so I had to translate it with google translator. I think it did a pretty good job. Follow the link above to go to the original site and download the patterns.

This is our costume for Halloween, a little pirate-looking threatening.

We do not know yet whether we will use it to attend a party, probably just put our house or grandparents, for us it was like another opportunity to play along with disguises.

To sew the vest, hat and scarf I used the black felt, the rest of clothing (trousers, white shirt and red bandanna) already had at home.

To make the vest (size 2 years) and the patch you can download the 4 patterns I designed for you: Click here go to original site for patterns

I cut the first two pieces in front of the vest, then the piece back.

I joined the track in front and one behind with pins and I have sewn the back shoulders and hips.



To make this pretty simple vest embroidered with the car I have piping with red thread and I sewed embroidery on the back of the pirate who had previously prepared. The paper pattern to embroider the pirate can be found in this post: the pirate top stitch.



For the dressing, I cut an oval from black felt and added black elastic to tie it.


The hat was the most difficult to achieve, I followed the tutorial explaining how threadbanger where cucirne one with a pair of leather pants to recycle. I'm not having the pants I used the black felt and finally I do not know how I managed to do it. We add here the video so you can get an idea of how I work: