How to make an eye patch

My daughter was born with exotropia, so we've dealt with surgery, eye patches & glasses for 10 years now. I figured since she has to patch her strong eye every day I should at least make her a cute eye patch instead of the black store bought ones. For this patch I decided to use two different colors, so she could have a different color on the backside. I used her dress up pirate patch as a template because it is smaller and fits her eye better. She also doesn't like it when the eye patch…

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Tutorial: Sewing an eye patch

Every young imagination needs a pirate patch for the occassional adventure at sea. Learn how to make a DIY pirate eye patch in this quick, easy tutorial. Just a couple scraps of felt, a little

Recently, my friend's Doctor perscribed her an eye patch to wear. Its black, bulky look was none too pleasing to my friend, nor was the fit...

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I can finally use up all those SCRAPS! This is really, really easy, and I request right off the top that you yoink this, make these, sell these, and do whatever you can to make having to wear an eye-patch less depressing and more comfortable for people (including children) who MUST wear them. …

Now that we are (hopefully!) reaching the end of our patching regime in five short weeks, I thought I'd share the tutorial for making our eye patches. With the rate that we lose them, I'll probably still make half a dozen more though... Some details about the patches: They consist of three layers (snazzy outer fabric, mid to heavyweight inner fabric, and soft flannel lining). The snazzy layer is self-explanatory, the inner layer is to give the patch some rigidity and also block out light…

Great pattern for therapy eye patch to slide over glasses. Lens sleeve may need some tweeking for your style glasses though.