Charity auction: L/M Patagonia Belay jacket converted to vest
Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2021 11:59 am
As part of my recycling strategy and i suppose to populate that there thread, here it goes. A beautiful Patagonia jacket which I saved for £20 from one of the BBers wardrobes. I just needed the sleeve for water jacket duties.
Would have been such a shame letting a lovely Patagonia jacket go in the bin. So I spoke to Dan who thought it'd cost £20 tops to do a job on it and save it. Sadly he underestimated the time it'd take and misquoted. I had the hat removed and arms taken off - one of which to be used as my water bladder sleeve - and also resized with a new zip. He added a lovely zipper that's same or higher quality than a YKK and it's a glow-in-the-dark.
The result is phenomenal and it can be seen he spent many man-hours loving it up and re-engineering it. It's now a beautiful body warmer and no longer USA sized belay. Fit is closer to a Rab microlight in medium.
Fast forward to now... I've spent £45 altogether so far and think it should benefit the wider community. I really reckon it has many many more years of life left thanks to Dan (Ledburner on here) without whom it would have been a lost case.
Here's the pics and proceeds will go to either my Yemen-Hunger-Crisis page, the RNLI or the Mountain Rescue team Greg works for. I will let the winner decide that and after receiving payment I will forward it on. I will also absorb the postage costs
Stitching as you can see is spot-on
Hat was removed
He even managed to save the bungee cord which is genius in my books
Can be compacted into smaller than an Arcteryx boot both quality...
Feels so nice when on
Would have been such a shame letting a lovely Patagonia jacket go in the bin. So I spoke to Dan who thought it'd cost £20 tops to do a job on it and save it. Sadly he underestimated the time it'd take and misquoted. I had the hat removed and arms taken off - one of which to be used as my water bladder sleeve - and also resized with a new zip. He added a lovely zipper that's same or higher quality than a YKK and it's a glow-in-the-dark.
The result is phenomenal and it can be seen he spent many man-hours loving it up and re-engineering it. It's now a beautiful body warmer and no longer USA sized belay. Fit is closer to a Rab microlight in medium.
Fast forward to now... I've spent £45 altogether so far and think it should benefit the wider community. I really reckon it has many many more years of life left thanks to Dan (Ledburner on here) without whom it would have been a lost case.
Here's the pics and proceeds will go to either my Yemen-Hunger-Crisis page, the RNLI or the Mountain Rescue team Greg works for. I will let the winner decide that and after receiving payment I will forward it on. I will also absorb the postage costs
Stitching as you can see is spot-on
Hat was removed
He even managed to save the bungee cord which is genius in my books
Can be compacted into smaller than an Arcteryx boot
both quality...Feels so nice when on
