Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Nautical Themed Pashmina Afghan

So here's the conversation:
     "Hey, since you're the Queen of eBay and all, any chance you find could a Nautical Themed Pashmina for me?"
     "Uhhhh, sure. Like any nautical themed scarf, or do you have something specific in mind?"
     "You havn't seen, "I'm On a Boat?"
     "... no" - I begin googling Nautical Themed Pashmina and find this:
     "Ohhhh, you mean Lonely Island, I'll do my best"

So began my eBay search, with no luck, my google search, amazon search, yahoo search, bing.... and all to no avail.  These crafty little fingers started tingling, and I knew what I had to do.

Back to eBay I did some searching for the best deal on navy colored Pashmina's.  As it turns out I needed to make five of these suckers! I sent several messages to sellers looking for a wholesale discount, and finally came to getting them for about six bucks each. 

Next came the anchors.  I was able to find what appears to be the EXACT anchor used on the Pashmina above on eBay, but I didn't like the price.  I messaged the seller, letting her know I needed about 100 of the anchors, and she replied back that I can purchase them direct from her website, and with the provided coupon code get them substantially less!  So if you ever need patches http://www.patchworkpandatrims.com/servlet/StoreFront is the place to go!.

So! Everything came in (took a few weeks), and finally I was ready to get things started.  Honestly it was a really easy process.  I placed the anchors spiratically on one side of the Pashmina, being sure to leave them heavily patched on the bottom, not so much in the center, and ironed them on.  

Voila!

Here is the finished product, and below; the video and therefore inspiration:

3 comments:

  1. are you selling the scarf?

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  2. What size anchors did u buy? i see there are two sizes on the website. And did you really buy 100 of them?

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  3. i designed the original one. i was the stylist / costume designer for that digital short. you did well on your replica. those patches were created just for the spot! nice find:)

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