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After two entire years, I finally finished this pirate jacket for my boyfriend. It’s made in black silk velvet with a gold satin lining, functional buttonholes, tons of hidden pockets, an eternity of hand-sewn braid, and about 50 bronze buttons.
I finished it in time for our boatwarming pirate party last Saturday. You can read LOADS more about the traumatic process of making this jacket plus see lots more photos at: http://www.fehrtrade.com/gallery/57/the-pirate-yarrty
Material Notes
black silk velvet, gold duchess satin, brass buttons, gold braid
Difficulty
Novice
Categories
Credits
creation Fehr Trade, pattern Simplicity 4923
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Mar 20, 2010, 06.08 PMby helenadoll
very cool!
Oct 10, 2009, 01.03 PMby richendaewen
awesome
Jan 8, 2009, 05.48 PMby goth-prince
Beautiful coat,
Sep 22, 2007, 12.31 AMby lilo
Wow! I mean WOW! Gorgeous!
Sep 21, 2007, 11.17 PMby claireokc
I know how hard this is – silk velvet is a real mess…but there is a needle board or a Your velva board that helps in pressing – it’s not as clean or pretty as normal pressing, but it helps. You did a superb job on the jacket. But I love your boat blog – would love to live on a boat…got a chuckle out of why you live on a boat – because it’s dreamy fun!!!
Sep 21, 2007, 02.14 PMby wyn
It makes me want to be a pirate! Great job!
Sep 21, 2007, 01.11 PMby sunnyb64
Oh, that is GORGEOUS. Silk velvet anything makes me want to drool with envy anyway. Lucky guy!
Sep 21, 2007, 09.34 AMby squirrellypoo
thanks! Benedikta – no, it’s our first party on our boat since we moved in at Easter. We had to rip out a ton of walls (the old hotel rooms) to create the dancefloor, and we’ll be building our lounge and bedrooms in there, so I don’t think we’d be able to have another party on quite that scale again. We had about 100 people, nearly all of which were in costume (and a handful were sewn, too!). Everyone made such the effort, it was brilliant. :)
our boat blog is at http://www.thanatopsic.org/hendrik/ if anyone’s curious.
Sep 21, 2007, 09.09 AMby lauriana
That must have been SO much work… but it turned out great! I loved the story on your blog.
Sep 21, 2007, 07.01 AMby benedikta
Hey, that is awesome. One lucky guy, your pirate boyfriend. Do you guys have that every year on your boat, a pirate party?