#patch diy

[fairbairn-sykes]

Been listening to a lot of Amigo the Devil lately and I just saw him in concert. Figured it was time to make some patches

[affordablepunk]

How to make badass patches when you can't paint or freehand a straight line to save your life

Materials:

Thin but rigid clear pastic sheets like the ones pictured below

Washi or masking tape

Fine tip permanent marker

Graphing paper

Pen (optional)

Pencil

Scissors

Exacto/ razor knife

Fabric for patches

Acrylic paint

Sponge (make sure it is a small grained foam)

Safety pins (to attach the patch to clothes if so desired)

Step 1: draw in pencil on graph paper, making a really cool design. Know where your positive space and negative space is, and think in your head what will happen when you cut it out. Make sure you will not have any islands that'll fall out of your stencil, or be prepared to mimic those spaces with masking tape

Step 2: outline darker with pen

Step 3: cut out a size of plastic that is equal to your design

Step 4: attach plastic to paper with your tape

Step 5: trace your design with your permanent marker

Step 6: detach tape (pulling it along its line as close to the paper as possible, peeling, can usually save your paper)

Step 7: gently carve along the lines with a razor knife until they are loose (it is best to do this on top of something you do not care about, such as garbage cardboard)

Step 8: carefully carve the corners of your design with your knife until the shape can be removed. You now have a stencil.

Step 9: secure stencil to fabric

Step 10: cut a piece of your sponge so it is a good size for blotting (I prefer 1" by 1" by 2" shapes), and prepare a quarter sized puddle 9f paint to blot from

Step 11: blot the design, using as little paint and as little force as possible. It takes awhile to get a solid coverage, but you will. You do it this way because a large amount of paint or paint pressed in too forcefully will slip under your stencil and produce strange blobs

Step 12 (optional): outline patch with permanent marker to cover up any blotches

Final product:

Don't be discouraged if any of these steps do not turn out as you envisioned them: I've been refining my technique here for awhile. It's something that takes a lot of practice to be good at.

Happy crafting!

[elioshines]

My jacket sleeves were fleaking, so i painted a jean scrap, realised it wasn't long enough, added skeleton fabric from an old dress and tadaa!

[elioshines]

There's a new embroidered patch in town 😎

Embroidered with phosphorescent thread because i love to suffer. Pretty happy with how it turned out even tho it's imprefect!!!

[dognonsense]

lowkey might stream printing patches tonite. with maybe song inbetween while we let the box sit on the patch. see if i get bored of youtube fnaf theories quickly or not 💀

[drakey-wakey]

streetlight patch idea ramblings under the cut bc this got long

i have an idea cooking in my brain for a somewhere in the between back patch that i think would be fucking wicked

unfortunately all my fav streetlight lyrics are SOOOOO LONG i worry it would make for an awkward patch like. most lyric patches i see have like 2 line lyrics and im out here like i cant cut any lines off these lyrics or it wouldn't HIT THE SAME !!!

like fr all my cool streetlight patch ideas are so long im worried itll be awkward or not look right with all the words but like !!!!!!! i need them. the quotes

i wanna do the sitb chorus

"so you were born, and that was a good day,

someday you will die and that is a shame

but somewhere in the between,

you lived a life of which we all dream

and nothing and no-one will ever take that away"

im thinking that with like a baby deer corpse with mushrooms growing out of it would be neat or something like that bc i am a mushroom freak

the other one i rly wanna do is a the hands that thieve chorus quote

"I dont care if i lose, because my heros did too,

they shouted court should be adjourned because the jury are fools

and the judge can't decipher

his left from his right

or his right from his wrong"

like MAN what a baller quote that would be for a back patch

anyways lmk if anyone has suggestions or input on this hehe