Safety Pin Jacket

Step 6 Wear and enjoy!

Ta da! Go and show off your awesome new bit of wearable art! These jackets are extremely versatile, great for formal or casual occasions. They are machine washable, if you run them on delicate and you dry them off right away. (Don't put them through the dryer though, that could end painfully with scorched fingers.) I've also been told that you can get rid of smelliness by spraying stinky spots with cheap vodka to kill bacteria.

Comments

[crafthooligan111]

this is so awesome, i am totally going to try this. Thanks!!

[Jeannie Marie]

Since you are usually wearing jackets over other clothes, they usually will only need a spot cleaning if something spills on them. If you do feel its getting a bit smelly, you can always pour vodka in a spray bottle, dose it with the alcohol and then let air dry or let a fan blow on it for faster results. Vodka is a little trick us wardrobe crews use because it kills the stink-causing bacteria, and once dry, will no longer smell like alcohol. Febreeze can be used, but it layers its own scent over the fabric, which doesn't always go with your own perfume, and can cause allergic reactions. oh, and the cheaper the vodka, the better!

[Smexy Dead]

Awesome! I'm so glad someone could provide a solution for the cleaning problem since I didn't know what to do. Thank you so much!

[Th33w0krap15t]

Febreeze works just great on that stuff. It's my best friend when it comes to unwashable/borderline dirty clothes.

[liquidblackout]

If you really did want to dry clean your jackets after wearing them for a long time, I'm think it should be fine. They don't really do anything very rigorous to them and I doubt the colours would come off that easily, but ask your dry cleaner first just in case.

In response the comment above, I think rubbing alcohol should work, too. It's even cheaper and very pure.

Great instructable and beautiful work!

[RainedOnDreams]

I would be careful about the rubbing alcohol. I've had it discolor some of my darker jackets before.

[BlissfullyDoomed]

Beautiful. Thanks for the idea.