PIRATE PATCH DIY

My little girl's school held pirate day. Of course, I didn't have a pirate patch laying around. Here is how you can make your own that looks better than black construction paper and lies off the eye.

ITEMS NEEDED: milk jug, black marker, scissors, paper, tape, black fabric, hot glue gun, sewing machine and back elastic.

Milk jug with a large circle drawn around the bottom corner.  Cut it out.

Draw a pirate patch on paper and cut out.

Make a slit to the center, overlap and tape.

Place over milk jug corner, trace and cut.

Paper and milk jug eye patch. Sorry no photo of cutting out fabric.  Lay the paper pattern, flattened again by removing the tape, on the black fabric. Cut the fabric 1/4" from the edge of the paper pattern.  You need the extra fabric to flip over the edge of the plastic patch. No pics for this...sorry I was in a hurry.

Use your hot glue gun to glue the edges of the fabric to the underside of the plastic eye patch.  Next measure the head and cut elastic.  I then sewed the elastic to the eye patch. If you don't want to sew you could punch holes and tie. 

 Our last minute pirate costume. ARRGHH!