punk and poor

I show off my low-budget projects here

[jackedjacket]

It's so weird to me when people are like 'but that will cost the government money!' So what? They're the government, they're supposed to be spending money. What, you want them to take your tax dollars and then do nothing with it? Lock it all up in a big government vault and just look at it? Why are you so scared of giving a third grader lunch or a homeless person a house.

[whyenn-reader]

General PSA's for begginer alt crafting

- superglue heats up when in contact with fiber, your craft can start smoking or even catch on fire

- you can wash clothing painted with acrylic paint in the washing machine if you turn it inside out and use the lowest temperature

- don't put painted clothes in the dryer.

- you can wash clothes with metal bits in the washing machine but use the handwashing setting, dry the metal bits with a paper towel before hanging them to dry, and know that it WILL be loud

- synthetic dye is needed to dye synthetic fibers and requires a long time simmering in a boiling pot. This WILL stink up the house and you NEVER want to make food in that pot again

- faux leather is vinyl not leather. Get vinyl paint to paint on it

- don't use your teeth as tools, they don't regenerate. Reconstructing enamel costs a small fortune (ask me how I know.)

- when handsewing a lot through thick fabric get thin needles, it will require less force and be less taxing on your wrists. When machine sewing get a higher grade needle (~130 for jean)

- embroidery floss is overpriced and not as strong as it looks. For sewing on heavy stuff get denim thread, it will last forever

- don't feed a 60$ home sewing machine ten layers of denim before you learn how much a servicing fee costs, these things are dellicate

- spray paint is best applied from 30-40cm away, in swift movements. Putting too much or applying from too close will cause drips. You can sand them down and apply a new layer of paint AFTER they dry. Wipe the can nozzle after painting if it's messy, you don't want it to clog and become unusable

- water based markers on fabric will bleed, if not instantly then with time, alcohol markers will fade with time

- most fabric glues are machine washable up to a certain temperature. modgepodge is not waterproof, hitack is handwash only. Check the instructions

- the flatter the surface the easier hot glue will peel off. Faux leather stands no chance, fibers like yarn will hold it best, but is impossible to remove the glue from them in the future

- rivets are a thing that exists, only require a hammer to install and can be used as permanent fabric attachment

- studs, gromets and other metal junk at small fabric stores are laughably overspriced

- acetone (found in nail polish remover) will remove acrylic stains out of furniture, flooring and faux leather, if used in excess can damage the laquer. Can also be used to remove prints and glue off of plastic (do a small test before commiting, might melt the plastic it it's grade is low)

- residue from stickers (and k-tape) can be removed with oil

- acrylic stains cannot be removed out of clothing or carpet so protect your area before painting and don't wear clothes you care about

- if your thread keeps getting tangled or snagging while handsewing try waxing it

- you can lock in screw-in spikes with screw lock glue if you're scared of them falling off because they unscrew

- you can add washers to screw-in spikes if you're scared of them falling through flimsy fabric or too big of a hole

- if you're making anything out of soda cans have a metal file on hand, they are deceptively sharp and will hurt you and rip through fabric you're installing them in

- bleach can be found in mold killing spray (don't touch that shit with bare hands. chemical burn.)

- fabric paints are no different from slightly dilluted acrylic. You can make it yourself by adding a bit of fabric softener to acrylic or honestly even water

- if you are setting anything with an iron use parchment paper or a pressing cloth to pervent your stuff from sticking to your iron and ruining it

- if you want a safety pin somewhere permanently pinch it shut with pliers

- as much as you can, avoid putting glue on clothing, it makes it really hard to change your decisions later on and upcycle the project in the future

- kiss your friends

[beawuar-deactivated20260320]

I love hijab Mohawks

[genderkoolaid]

people on this site will be like fascists are so awful! btw all of my political opponents are inhuman scum that deserve death

[letrune]

That is a symptom of radicalisation, the type fascism and other similar genocidal movements rely on. Fascists, stalinists and so LOVE when people go "we should kill X group, and then everything is better", because they can plug anything into X, and people radicalised enough will be unable to realise where they end up - because when they are radicalised enough and given a choice between radicalism and being something else, they will choose radicalism.

[genderkoolaid]

#people in the notes really going nu uh my paramilitary death squads will bring about utopia and thinking that will change op's mind

[southeastsappho]

Conservative crackers: nobody wants to work! Black women are welfare queens! Millenials want everything handed to them!

me at work bc this country fails its citizens:

zlle: [email protected]

pypal: [email protected]

vnmo: Serena-Manning

cshapp: $sailorsylvie

Home Needs Wishlist

[southeastsappho]

Still need to pay rent and my car note. I have 5 appts this week including a procedure. I'm so stressed out.

Please help a disabled lesbian out this Pride Month!

[southeastsappho]

Yall please help me I will be homeless.

[southeastsappho]

Still at $0/628. This is urgent. I will be homeless and without a vehicle as a disabled Black lesbian in the deep south. This is super scary.

[lutravurr-deactivated20250614]

made gloves out of unwearable jeans

[lutravurr-deactivated20250614]

@digitamerriley

really shitty tutorial:

first i cut the bottom of the pant legs off, most jeans i believe dont have this type of seam on them so youll probably have to make on yourself, its just a ladder stitch between the folded edges of the seams. most people dont have a surger so you can just use a blanket stitch along the edges to prevent fraying i made a hole big enough for my thumb to go through with a seam ripper

then i used a straight stitch three times over each side of the hole to prevent further ripping

next part is not very practical because i always mess up patterns, with my thumb through i sewed the top parts between my fingers (blue dots) and got someone to help me pin the side of the glove against my hand so i could draw along where the fabric meets with chalk (pink lines)

hands kind of slope a bit where the fingers join so just be aware of that when shaping the top bit

then i did a double overlock stitch along the outside of the chalk drawing to prevent fraying and folded them over to make a seam with a gap between where the zipper would go, the i sewed in the zippers

i cut them with wire cutters and sewed a new zipper stop into the top beside the base of the pinky, i used some hand sewing and some machine sewing but you can do all this with just hand sewing too so i also dont have a surger so if you want to mimick the look you can do this stitch along the edge of the fabric:

aside from the embroidery thats pretty much it

[nothorses]

i think i cracked the code on converting regular underwear into packing underwear:

easily

using only a pair of sacrificial underwear

looks good (inside and out!), AND

keeps ur packer firmly and comfortably in place

if there is interest I can be persuaded to share my secrets

[nothorses]

The people have spoken.

You will need:

Underwear to be converted (I am using boxer briefs in this tutorial, but this should work on any "men's" underwear!)

Sacrificial underwear (these do not need to be "men's")

Scissors

Thread

Either a needle or a sewing machine

Pins or basting glue/some kind of temporary fabric glue

OPTIONAL: Seam ripper

My sewing skills are pretty beginner-level, but if you've never sewn before, this is a modified version of the idea from this video, which explains hand-sewing as well! imo this is simple enough (and similar enough) that you can probably attempt this tutorial after you watch that one.

What we're going for is a pouch in the front of the underwear, using the shape of the crotch they already have. This is a pair I made with fabric that matches it exactly (turned inside-out so you can see the pocket):

For this tutorial, I chose a sacrificial pair that contrasts a little bit, just so yall can see what I'm doing.

I'm converting the underwear on the left into packing underwear. I've chosen a sacrificial pair that I think I can match nicely to them, plus some thread that matches them both. You truly do not need to be this picky about it.

First, I'm going to deconstruct my sacrificial pair:

Cut along the yellow lines to separate out the crotch, elastic waistband, and the butt. (I cut on the outside of the seams here, so the seams were removed with the crotch.)

We're gonna get rid of the crotch, because it's cup-shaped & won't lie flat. The butt fabric will be perfect for that!

But first: the waistband.

This is the part that makes this design work so well! Let's remove some excess fabric from the waistband that my scissors couldn't get with the seam ripper (this is optional)

You want about 6'' of the waistband to form a strap, which will hold your packer in place inside the pouch.

My packer is a Mr. Limpy, which works well with these harnesses. This should also work with some packers that don't have balls- esp sock packers- but if you use the soft cup-shaped packers, I might be concerned about the strap compressing them. Whether you fiddle with the design, or just leave the strap out altogether, is up to you!

I played around with mine and found that it worked best to place the strap about 3'' up from the bottom of the crotch, but this may be different on your body & with your packer. Once you figure out placement, you're going to:

Turn your underwear inside-out

Measure & place your elastic strap (I like to go 3'' above the bottom seam of the crotch) (It's important that your elastic is longer than your crotch is wide!)

And pin.

(Make sure you do not pin your crotch to your ass.)

Now, you're going to place the butt fabric from your sacrificial underwear so that it covers the entire crotch, leaving maybe a quarter inch or so of room from the waistband. I also recommend placing one of the hemmed edges from the leg holes at the top here, so you don't need to hem it yourself.

(Blue lines are the crotch seams underneath, and the purple is the elastic, with yellow pins. I feel x-ray helps me understand what's going on.)

And pin! (With more x-ray so you can see where everything should be)

Turn the whole deal right-side-out again, and sew along the existing crotch seams:

This will hide your sewing, which I think is a nice touch.

When you're done, turn it inside-out again and cut off the excess fabric (you can cut pretty close to the seam here)

And viola!

I decided to do an overcast stitch around the inside hem, just to help prevent fraying and make things look more finished. If you're hand stitching, you probably do not want to do all that, but you can use a zig-zag stitch for a similar effect if you're particularly masochistic/determined.

Penis time.

And an inside peek:

I find the strap really helps keep things in place no matter what I'm doing, whereas the pair I made without one needed a lot more readjusting. I'm also a huge fan of how subtle the changes are! Even when I go to the bathroom, I'm not reminded of how Different And Strange my underwear are. Feels good.

If you come up with any tips or changes, or if you decide to make these and want to share/provide feedback, please add to this post & I will try to share!

[catboybiologist]

updating version that I'm again bumping for transmascs bc this is super cool!

[shashiatnight]

This is for the support of Gaza's Municipality Services - which help ensure clean drinking water, waste collection, debri removal and sanitation services - life saving services to run a state - reader I imagine wherever you are or how lacking the municipality services in your city is, it's not worse than Ghazza.

Currently it's only at 11% - please donate -

Life For Gaza

Life For GazaDrinking Water, Waste Collection, Debris Removal, and Sanitation Services for the Residents of Gaza City - Gaza Municipality

[shashiatnight]

Please amplify wherever and however you can reader.

[bikakirarin]

I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

[heritageposts]

[heritageposts]

hey, if you've got spotify, just leave this on repeat whenever you can. all proceeds are going to UNRWA

[pobopolybius]

Latest reblog reminds me of how much it pisses me the fuck off how every queer person alive has to adapt to the usamerican style of queerness lest we get shunned by the community for being too different. I bring this up a lot but bro that time I got death threats for having ele/dele in my bio bc "by using neopronouns I was making a mockery of REAL trans people" when those are literally just my pronouns in my native language, and when I said that I got hit w the "well you're on the internet so speak english" I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS

[pobopolybius]

I feel the need to miss out a crucial detail I missed out in this post I made out of anger, and no, it doesn't add any silver linings or good context, it honestly only serves to make it worse.

In portuguese, much like spanish, we have no gender neutral pronouns. People who do not use ele/dele and ela/dela (he/him or she/her) all use whatever neopronoun suits them best in portuguese (ie elu/delu, eli/deli) because we have no access to a universal gender neutral pronoun like gringos do. When I brought this up upon them making fun of my "neopronouns", they said to suck it up, and that being foreign does not make neos valid.

In mocking people who use neopronouns in english, you are mocking a very large sum of latin american genderqueer and trans people.

I know various latin language speakers that struggle with their identities in their native tongue due to us not having they/them equivalents, so they are forced to let go of their, in example, brazilian queerness, to appease to anglos who would harass them and call them mockeries of trans people for not sticking to what The Cis want.

When non-anglos tell you the usamerican and british dominance over queer spaces ruins things for them, they mean it. We are forced to repress our identites because you people think they're too "out there and problematic". We are forced to suppress our own queer culture because we don't fit into your neat little boxes of what makes someone gay what makes someone a lesbian what makes someone trans or what makes someone anything else.

You tell us to remember "our queer elders", but do you know of any queer latin american figures? We learn your history, and you refuse to learn ours because you already have "too much on your plate". You disregard us and shame us for not fitting your ideals of queerness and using labels for ourselves you dislike, and try to baby us and tell us the proper way to be gay.

Your culture is not universal.

You are not saving queer people by making jabs at other queer people you don't personally get. Odds are you are harming an entire group of foreign queers you never bothered to consider, because your anglo bubble is too self important.

If you want to do queer people a real favour instead of getting mad at identities that existed long before you were even born, here. Make yourself useful. Donate to queer brazilian housing and support programs. Your beloved dollar is worth a lot more than the Real. Even five dollars help.

Casa Um

Eternamente Sou

Transviver

[pobopolybius]

Hey man reblog this version instead lol

[only-knives]

as a poor punk cripple, it's hard for me to straddle the line between needing/wanting clothes and not wanting to be another cog in the fast fashion machine. i can't drive, i have no income, i'm "petite plus-size," and i have sensory issues... so thrifting isn't really ideal or possible a lot of the time. i really want it to be, because i love reusing things and getting things for cheap. but alas. i am simply too crippled and outside standard fashion sizes for it to be realistic.

so all i have left is to buy cheap things when i need them, thrift when i can, and wear my cheap clothes to death. and sometimes, i buy things when i want them, because... shocker, it makes sense to want things. unfortunately, making and upcycling things isn't really in my cards either. i do it sometimes, and the times i have done it have made me happy. but it's also put me in excruciating pain and takes ages just to do one tiny thing.

and you know what? i shouldn't have to push myself. it's okay if i want to do it sometimes, as long as i take care of myself after, but it's my body. i get to decide when i am willing to risk being in severe pain, debilitated by it for hours to days, and trigger the depression my disability causes me. it's my job to care for my own disabilities, and as such, as long as i'm making my fast-fashion choices as carefully as i can, no one has any right to gatekeep or demonize me for it.

i shouldn't have to explain to you why you should care more about one disabled person managing their excruciating pain than whether one disabled person buys a new pair of jeans or a cheap ass necklace every once in a while. maybe direct criticism where it belongs: the powers that force people to make decisions like this, and the people who refuse to be better about their consumption at all.

ableism and classism isn't punk - you need to realize these two oppressions are going to intersect and cause situations that aren't ideal, or traditionally considered punk. that extends beyond fashion, too. and if you're cpunk and not in this kinda situation, just be grateful it doesn't and leave the rest of us alone. or alternatively become friends with us and make us things - you might just get something back.

[mad-dyspunktional]

I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.

[mad-dyspunktional]

You all are so 100% certain you know how to identify radfem and T(W)ERF rhetoric and can’t possibly fall victim to it but guess what.

They are nowhere near above pulling this shit. And you all are falling for it.

[mad-dyspunktional]

And if you think that screenshot is an isolated incident, think again!

There are countless radfem and T(W)ERF blogs that I’ve blocked that said ‘secret radfem sideblog’ in the description.

Like, it’s great that we’ve made being a T(W)ERF so unaccepted on this site that they can only be open about the most toxic of their views in secret side blogs rather than on their main, but it’s time to accept that they’re taking advantage of that in a really fucking insidious way.

[robertplantspants]

Just a tip on how to recognize these blogs. If you follow someone and you start getting suggested t*rf blogs that’s a good sign the person has sideblog for that stuff. There was some cowboy blog I followed a while ago and I used to get follow suggestions saying “this blog is similar to cowboy whatever” and it was a ton of t*rf shit and low and behold they ended up outing themselves

[nothorses]

This is why we learn about what actual TERF ideology is. Saying “trans women are women” and “TERFS not allowed” and putting “TERF destroyer” or whatever in your bio is not enough. Learn how TERFs actually work, and what they believe, and where it stems from, and how they express diluted versions in order to warm up non-TERFs to their ideas.

Do the fucking work. Unfollow/block people who express TERF ideas even if they don’t label themselves as TERFs, challenge those ideas in your community, and you won’t have to worry about secret TERF blogs anymore.

[npdclaraoswald]

Just in case you happen to be unaware, some of the “radfem lite” they post to warm you up to their rhetoric, just off the top of my head:

Ace/aro exclusionism

Bi exclusionism or claims that bi people are “less queer” bc of “straight passive privilege”

Saying you have to be dysphoric to identify as trans

Invalidating nonbinary people

Calling queer a slur regardless of context, saying people can’t identify as queer, and saying that it can’t be reclaimed

“Mogai hell”, “kweer”, or otherwise mocking less common labels and claiming they are “just cishets who want to feel special”

Excluding sex workers from feminist discussions or claiming that sex work is inherently evil

Basically anyone who thinks they can determine what other people identify as

[rolling-away-from-the-sunset]

The following are some red flags I’ve seen:

Men are evil

Women are pure

Black and white framing

Talking about separating the communities

Only this group can use these words

Lesbians are better than bi women

Straight women deserve/should not be surprised if they get abused

Panphobia

Think of the children

Anti kink

Cringe culture/who let these weirdos in/calling people freaks

[mosswall]

And also, just so we’re clear, if YOU, the person reading this, are looking at that list and thinking “what’s so bad about ___? That’s not terfy that’s just feminism!” then congratulations, you are dipping your foot in the well, and you have some shit to unlearn before you jump in whole hog.

Learn how to fucking recognize radfem and terf rhetoric even when it’s supposedly welcoming trans women, and do your part to oust them from the queer community.

[vaspider]

Really important and I think I missed it on the list:

The idea that lesbian relationships are inherently more pure and more holy than any other kind

Lesbians are Pure and not Ickily Obsessed with Sex

Like really a very … sexless… view of lesbianism entirely. This lesbianism is entirely G-rated

This doesn’t mean “ace lesbians are TERFs.” It means that if someone’s idea of lesbianism excludes kinky lesbians or the idea that a lesbian can be abusive in a relationship or… doesn’t encompass the idea that women can sometimes be fucking horndogs? It’s leaning on some very radfem ideas about women and their sexuality, ideas that infantilize women and flatten their lives down to “innocent cherubs.”

And it’s fucking weird.

[mourntomidnight]

Tbh I think the fast fashion conversation should involve poor ppl but not in any way in the form of shaming but more like: “you are being taken advantage of by large corporations that have women and children enslaved to make crappy clothes in excessive amounts that have literal lead that will damage ur body in serious ways that ur pressured to buy via influencers that form a parasocial relationship with you and don’t care about you to overconsume them in large amounts that won’t last and have to be thrown away at some point and all that ends up fucking the environment. Plus, the cycle of consumerism is damaging to ur finances to keep u in poverty and mental health of always wanting more but never satisfied.”

I am saying right now you don’t need to throw out fast fashion items you currently own, if they fall apart, they can be repurposed. I am also saying I’ve been guilty of shopping fast fashion but am also making a commitment to eliminate fast fashion purchases and mindset in my life. The root cause of these fast fashion corpos to keep doing what they do is purely based on you buying from them and you, the consumer in this capitalist world, have the power to change that. Obviously there’s little you can do to avoid big oil or buying things made with prison labor without serious direct action but the fashion industry is one that is by design meant to be maintained by mindless consumerism and overconsumption.

If you are poor, please do whatever within ur means to avoid fast fashion, whether it’s buying from thrift stores other than goodwill and just buying less clothes and focusing on more important things in ur life. A better tomorrow is still possible if you allow it.

[zennistrad]

I always roll my eyes at posts about what "true punk" is/was and how it was always a left-wing thing because, like, the Sex Pistols were on of the first popular punk rock bands and they were recognized right from the start as posers who had no coherent politics beyond trying to shock people

[zennistrad]

"Nazi Punks Fuck Off" would have not been a necessary statement if Nazi punks were not a very real thing and a very real part of the punk scene, just sayin'

[whatsallthisnow]

You literally cannot be a Nazi Punk tho. You're either a Nazi, or you're Punk. Punk has ALWAYS been about kindness and freedom and making things better. Punk is about hope. Punk is about being so angry about injustices that you are going to start a fight over it. Being a Nazi goes against everything that Punk stands for and the two cannot coexist within a single movement.

[zennistrad]

Punk has ALWAYS been about kindness and freedom and making things better.

No it hasn’t! This is literally exactly the kind of ahistorical take on punk that drives me off the wall, and you’re exactly the kind of person I was vagueing about!

Punk hasn’t always been about freedom, from the start it was being subversive, and what exactly punk was trying to subvert has always been extremely broad and open to interpretetion by different groups!

The Ramones were conservatives. The Sex Pistols had no intended political message beyond being offensive and their frontman supports Trump now. These initial groups were not acting to make a statement about freedom or kindness but to push against the increasing conformity, cleanliness, and smooth production of mainstream rock music. That did not necessarily entail standing up for freedom or left-wing causes. Of the initial “big three” old-school punk bands, The Clash were the only ones that were politically progressive!

Lots of punks in the 80s wore Nazi armbands for the express purpose of being shocking and offensive to mainstream sensibilities because that is what punk was about. And soon enough, the “ironically edgy” Nazi punks gave way to actual goddamned Nazis in punk. Fuck, have you even heard of Skrewdriver? Do you even know that Nazi punks were the reason that “skinhead” became modern shorthand for “neo-Nazi?”

It’s not possible to deny punk to fascists by is by playing “no true Scotsman.” All that does is make it easier to pretend they’re not there, and not a real problem. If you want to tell the Nazi punks to fuck off, you have to first acknowledge that they have a deep history in punk, and you have to face that reality and confront it! You can’t just bury your head in the sand and pretend the problem isn’t real.

[forthegothicheroine]

#i reblogged this before but literally this yeah#punk has always been mostly being *against* shit#and that alone is not a political solid framework#no matter what tumblr activism likes to pretend#like. it's not just an aesthetic but it's also not equivalent to anarchism#and people pretending otherwise just. drive me batshit

via @queerofthedagger

[grrrls-against-the-patriarchy]

IMPORTANT!!!

I’ve only seen like one person talk about this and it’s super important that this gets out there

Multiple punk symbols and sayings have been added to the FBI’s domestic terrorism guide

Things included are

The symbol for anarchy

ACAB and 1312

The three arrows pointing down in a circle

Eat the rich

Those are a few but it also mentions anything anti-fascist and anti capitalist

So if you live in the US please be careful

Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide Part 01

Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide Part 01

[howling-nightmare]

Oh my god thank you for telling me!

[just-another-tired-gay-artist]

@safety-pin-punk idk if you’ve seen this yet but tagging you in case u haven’t

[safety-pin-punk]

Hey what the fuck

NAZIS GO HOME IS A SYMBOL OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM????

[aethersquid]

All the people being like “oh the FBI showing their true colors” what fucking universe did you live in where the goddamn FBI wasn’t a tool of oppression. The FBI exists because Theodore Roosevelt decided all of the federal government’s existing anti-anarchist programs and task forces should be consolidated under one banner. They have been anti-anarchist from before they even fucking existed and have never once shown signs of changing.

[thecassafrasstree]

Had a few folks interested in how I made the patches I posted for Solarpunk Aesthetic Week, so I thought I'd give y'all my step-by-step process for making hand-embroidered patches!

First, choose your fabric and draw on your design. You can use basically any fabric for this - for this project I'm using some felt I've had lying around in my stash for ages.

Next, choose your embroidery floss. For my patches I split my embroidery floss into two threads with 3 strands each, as pictured. You can use as many strands in your thread as you prefer, but for the main body of my patches I prefer 3 strands.

Next you're going to start filling your design using a back stitch.

First, put in a single stitch where you want your row to start.

Poke your needle up through the fabric 1 stitch-length away from your first stitch.

Poke your needle back down the same hole your last stitch went into so they line up end-to-end.

Repeat until you have a row of your desired length (usually the length of that colour section from one end to the other). Once you have your first row, you're going to do your next row slightly offset from your first row so that your stitches lay together in a brick pattern like this:

Make sure your rows of stitches are tight together, or you'll get gaps where the fabric shows through.

Rinse and repeat with rows of back stitch to fill in your patch design.

When you're almost to the end of your thread, poke your needle through to the back of the fabric and pull the thread under the back part of the stitching to tuck in the end. Don't worry if it looks messy - no one's gonna see the back anyway.

This next step is fully optional, but I think it makes the patch design really pop. Once your patch is filled in, you can use black embroidery floss to outline your design (or whatever colour you want to outline with - it's your patch, do what you want). I use the full thread (6 strands, not split) of embroidery floss to make a thicker outline.

I use the same back stitch I used to fill the piece to make an outline that adds some separation and detail. You could use most any 'outlining' stitch for this, but I just use back stitch because it's just easier for me to do.

Once you're finished embroidering your patch, it's time to cut it out!

Make sure to leave a little border around the edge to use for sewing your patch on your jacket/bag/blanket/whatever, and be careful not to accidentally cut through the stitches on the back of the patch.

If you have a sturdy enough fabric that isn't going to fray, you can just leave it like this. If not, I recommend using a whip stitch/satin stitch to seal in the exposed edges (I find that splitting your embroidery floss into 3-strand threads works best for this).

And then you're done! At this point you can put on iron-on backing if you want, or just sew it on whatever you wanna put it on. Making patches this way does take a long time, but I feel that the results are worth it.

Thanks for reading this tutorial! I hope it was helpful. If anyone makes patches using this method, I'd love to see them! 😁

[jewishbowser]

hey punkz here's a tut for wrist cuffs/bracelets since some of u are new 2 tha scene

written out 4 ease of access

HOW TO: WRIST CUFFS DIY

Step 1: Old Jeans Waistband

- Cut off waistband from rest of pants

Step 2: Cut to Wrist Size (X2)

- measure around your wrist and cut

Step 3: Add Closure

-button + buttonhole or safety pin + soda tab works best imo

- Sew down soda tab to one side, safety pin to other

Step 4: Add Hardware

- good options are spikes, more safety pins, more soda tabs, staples, chains, and whatever else you can find

Step 5: SHOW OFF!!!!

feel free 2 add any other tits on this thread or tag #punk tutorials