Jozlyn is 3 years old. She loves pirates, princesses, pink, and black; so I decided to design and make her a Pirate Princess costume. She loves it and wants to wear it every day. One benefit of making your own costume is that it can be worn daily and survive even playgrounds. The pettiskirt was … Read more
We love to dress up as pirates. These costumes are 100% handmade. Each Pirate costume took me about one week to complete. We have worn them several times and always get rave reviews. Long live pirates! Total Spent: $100
This jacket started off as a tablecloth from Goodwill. The pants came from a pants suit at Goodwill as well. I wanted to get a really close fitting jacket, so I used Simplicity pattern #3628 as my base. I am a pretty novice seamstress but since I could make this w/o a collar, sleeves, or … Read more
My husband was a pirate and our baby was his little parrot. For the Homemade Pirate and Parrot Halloween Costumes we used black pants and a frilly white shirt. We had actually used both last year with a cape and teeth for a vampire costume. I cut about a 5 inch width of red satin … Read more
My 5-year-old wanted to be a Pirate for Halloween. I looked at several patterns in books but nothing jumped out at me. So I used an old pattern from last year’s indian costume. I got the fabric for the pirate costume from Walmart, all out of the $1 yd bin. I used red and white … Read more
This is a Rufio from Hook Costume I made for a roommate, so it is him in the pictures and not myself. Materials: It was made mostly of clothes from the thrift store: Black pants, cheapest leather jacket we could find, red mohawk wig (the best treasure found at the thrift store), black shirt. Some … Read more
For this Homemade Pirate Halloween Costume I had made use of old white long-sleeved shirt, black vest, old black belt, old dark blue hat, old white uniform for cutting skull patterns, cardboard to make cutlass and eye patch, plastic cup to make hook, old black pant, lady’s black shoe, and old striped bandana. Lastly, aluminum … Read more
My 6 yr. old son wanted to be a Pirate for Halloween. We went to the fabric store and found a pirate pattern with a jacket that was close to what we wanted. I used that as the base and then sewed a layer of what was supposed to be interlacing onto the front instead … Read more
I always wanted to dress as Tinkerbell for Halloween, so when I finally convinced my husband to be Captain Hook, I started right away with our Tinkerbell and Captain Hook Couple Costumes. For my Tinkerbell costume, I started with the green crushed fabric and the bodice of what was the top part of my prom … Read more
I could not find my baby a pirate costume that would match with the ones our family was wearing. Actually the smallest one I could find was for a 1 year old; my son is five months. I decided to give it a shot and try to make a Homemade Baby Pirate Costume myself. I … Read more
I created this costume by starting at a thrift store. I found a little girls “puffy” shirt, a black vest and a women’s scarf. I then went to a Halloween party store and bought a pirate hat, hook, dagger and eye patch. I already had a red bandana from a previous costume so we used … Read more
My son was so impressed with my husband’s Jack Sparrow costume he wanted me to make him a mini version. I made the pants, jacket, sash and vest from old cloth I had, I purchased the hat (no way was I going to attempt that one). Made him boot tops and used an old belt … Read more