projects and protests and such

diy punk blog. Free Palestine & Land Back.

[svetzzi]

advice for someone getting into custom patch making ? like how to start and what to use

[text: I make patches in 3 ways! 1: cut your piece of fabric (white). 2: use your device of choosing to trace design onto the fabric with a pen or pencil. 3: paint the negative space on fabric with color of choosing. / 1: cut your piece of fabric (any color). 2: freehand that bitch! (With a reference if you want). / 1: Make a stencil with card stock. 2: Use stencil (on fabric with paint). 3: NOW cut your fabric!]

I mainly do the first method in order to get a very bold, bright, and solid white color for the text or drawing on the patch. But any of these have worked great in my experience :) I mostly use cotton duck fabric for my patches, which is available for cheap at Joanne Fabrics or your local fabric store. But I also just use whatever clothing scraps I can get my hands on! Collect free fabric if you have the opportunity.

and I also use pen, sharpies, paint markers and textile acrylic paint. Cotton duck can kind of suck your ink, but if you don’t care about that any kind of pen works amazingly on it. Here is the paint I mainly use.

[polaris-ursae]

ID: some small jars of textile acrylic in various colors against a white background. End ID.

[doriangraysrockcollection]

Make sure you set your paint, especially if you'll be putting it through the wash! With this paint, once it's dried for 24 hours, iron the reverse side for 30 seconds on the highest setting the fabric can take. Other paints might have different instructions.

[Addition to the ID above: it's Jacquard textile paint]

[polariy]

Oh thanks for the addition! Is there any way to set it without access to an iron <- is a poor college student

[bisforbutch]

Hey I'm DJ, black, nonbinary, psychotic.

Did not want to make another post so soon. I'm about to change jobs to one that gives more hours with the same pay that also pays weekly. Sometime within a month. Until then however it'll be nigh impossible to make ends meet with this retail job after Christmas. I've worked 15 hours in the past 2 weeks due to the slow season and this job presents a barrier to adding a second job due to its irregular scheduling.

I'm once again asking for help with rent and fees because it will help me stick the landing at my new job. I just want to be stable but right now that means opening my heart to help.

My cashapp and paypal are both forwardalways21 and my tips are always on.

My updated goal is 400

276/400

[bisforbutch]

My phone is officially off now. Any help is appreciated greatly. Gonna have to increase my goal as I'm jobless now and tax returns won't come till next month. I need a phone to get a bettwr job to stop begging. I knew things could get rough but I was losing money where I was. Gonna increase my goal so I could possibly pay it 2 months. That should be enough to sort out rent and food and my phone

340/500

[bisforbutch]

Rent is due in a few days. Boosting helps

[bisforbutch]

360/500

[polariy]

Any recommendations for Black punk/protopunk/hardcore bands? Been getting really into Pure Hell and Bad Brains lately

[soppingwetratboy]

“You should be at the club” I should at a shitty punk show in someone’s basement

[plague-vulture]

first 2 patches for the patch hoodie!

[morbid-things]

could you give a tutorial for the barbed wire stitching please? ^_^

Sure! I've never done a tutorial before, so I'm sorry if this is a little confusing 💀

The whole design is made of simple straight stitches, so it's pretty easy :)

1. Make a diagonal stitch, then make another one in the opposite direction to create an 'X', that is wider toward the end.

2. Make two more diagonal stitches to create another X attached to the end of the first one.

3. Make two more diagonal stitches that face outward, creating the 'barbs'

3. Create straight horizontal stitches between the barbs, I'd say about 3-5, depending on how far apart you make the stitches.

4. Create two diagonal stitches facing outward again, facing the opposite direction of the first two barbs, closing off the first shape.

5. Create another X between the barbs, and repeat the process again until you reach the end of whatever you're embroidering :)

I would suggest making the X's a bit longer and narrower than I did here, because I think it looks a bit better that way, but honestly it doesn't matter all that much :)

[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! 😁

[x-brik-x]

I'm seeing a lot of people say that punk fashion is expensive and inaccessible, which is very wrong. here is a list of some ways you can make punk fashion easier, cheaper and more accessible for you, since that's... kinda the whole point.

others are encouraged to add onto this!! (just don't recommend corporations like amazon. not cool.)

1. patches!! you don't need to buy them. DIY patches are not ugly or boring. in fact, they are encouraged here!! DIY, in my opinion, is always the best thing to do when it is an option and is safe to do so.

2. speaking of DIY, spikes!! you can make them!!

cut the top and bottom off of an empty can. cut down the middle of the cylinder and flatten it, so it's just a flat rectangle of metal.

cut out a shape that is kind of a third of a circle, but around 3/4 of the curved edge is taken up by triangle shapes. (I'm not very good at describing, so here's a badly drawn picture)

roll it into a cone, leaving the 4 triangles sticking out at the bottom. this bit is optional, but you can fill it with hot glue to make it more sturdy, just be careful touching the hot metal. I tend to hold the cone by one of the triangles with a bit of fabric wrapped around my fingers for this bit. cut 4 small holes in your fabric in this kind of shape:

and put the spiky bits of triangle through the holes. fold the triangles in on themselves to secure the spike in place. boom. spike obtained. this is one I made and attached to a little piece of fabric to test this method out:

3. battle vests!! (like the base jackets). the best places to buy these are charity shops and second hand websites in my opinion, but if anyone else knows any better options, please reblog with those!!

a good trick I find works well on eBay is to filter search results to your country (or state? can you do that in the US? idk) so that a: fast delivery because local, and b: all the sellers of everything that shows up are in YOUR TIME ZONE.

why is this important? when people sell something for really cheap, it goes FAST. check eBay at like, 2am or something. all the scalpers in your area are asleep. grab the cheap stuff while they can't.

4. sewing!! want patches, but can't sew for whatever reason? I've heard of a lot of people with joint conditions like arthritis complain about the inaccessibility of patch stuff, and that does sound extremely annoying, however:

safety pins!! while they are still a little fiddly, they're much less work so you don't have to fiddle about for long. if you can, you could even ask a friend to help, since it doesn't take long at all I'm sure someone will be willing to help out!! (I know I would, but that's just me, and I love this kind of thing). safety pins on clothes are also widely considered to be a symbol of solidarity, so if anything, you're adding some extra love and meaning to your patch pants/battle jacket.

if that's still too fiddly, fabric glue is always an option. unfortunately this means you won't be able to remove/reposition patches, at least without leaving a massive patch of residue, but if you're ok with that then fabric glue is probably your best bet.

for people who prefer sewing: as for where to get the thread, I've heard a lot of people recommending dental floss, as it's apparently much cheaper and works just as well. I haven't tried this myself so can't confirm that, but I thought I'd share it regardless.

5. where to get fabric!! old clothes. rip em up. you don't need any kind of fancy fabric from the craft store. my patches are made of old jeans that I grew out of.

don't have any old clothes and you don't want to waste any good ones? I'm not sure about other countries, but in the UK, as long as you're not on private property (trespassing), dumpster diving is perfectly legal.

I definitely ;) do NOT encourage ;) trespassing rich people's land ;) to steal from their dumpsters ;)

or tbh it doesn't matter too much how rich the person is, since it's all going to landfill anyway. if it's in the bin, it's free game, but you didn't hear that from me. ;)

please add onto this where you can!! and if I missed something or got anything wrong, add that on too!!

[gayspock-deactivated20250217]

ok what about this then? 🧐

what do you associate the most with the person who posted/reblogged this poll

a specific piece of media (show, book, or movie)

a specific character

a specific animal

a specific country or location

a specific food

a specific public figure

a specific hobby or skill

a specific interest

something else

nothing at all fuck that guy

Voting ended onNov 30, 2023

rb + tag specifics if youre not a coward

[cripple-punk-dad]

Man punks really figured it out. We heard music with lyrics that spoke to us and have continued speaking to us and we said "damn is anyone gonna be really sexy and cool and make clothing out of the intangibility of music" and didn't wait for an answer and then had gay sex and dumpster dived about it

[polariy]

Get cropped, idiot

[polariy]

Behold: a DIYer with ADHD

[hapalopus]

The only acceptable ads should be shit like "groceries on sale" and "free event at the local library"

[fairycosmos]

capitalism will never steal the passion i have for doing fuck all from me

[funstealer]

Jean Paul Gaultier A/W98 ‘Blood Drip’ Velvet Trucker Jacket

[flowrot]

ID: 1. picture of a black trucket jacket with silver buttons and dark red blood-like stripes running along the upper half.

2. same jacket, but viewed from the back.

3. same jacket on a headless mannequin dressed in a maroon trenchcoat with the collar popping through the jacket, a white shirt with a granite-like marbled pattern, a white belt with chain connected to a bloody bracelet, and black pants with the same blood drip pattern as the jacket

[crowgvts-deactivated20241209]

two more stencils I whipped up tonight!!!

bat and a deathshead hawkmoth!

[jasperthehatchet]

And also here's a shoulder bag I've been working on!! 🌿🌟

Also if you mix a little mod podge and water, and coat some fake leaves you have laying around, they won't fray or fall apart as easily so you can use them as patches! Leaf! Patches!

[Image ID: a green and brown messenger bag decorated with various pins, tassels, soda tabs, and safety pins. There's an ankh patch, a green spiral patch, a mushroom patch, a heart shaped anarchy patch, an ACAB patch, and a skull patch. There are large fake leaves hooked onto the metal hoops on the sides of the bag, and some leaf ribbon wrapped around the zipper. End ID]