#rock music patch

[treatsandthreads]

This and a few other fun band patches available. Perfect to put on a hat, a backpack, or a vest or jacket. Check out Etsy store https://treatsandthreads.etsy.com

[happy-and-gay-tortoise]

Quit shaming people for having messy painted patches, that's not cool and the point of punk is working with what you have. I have very fucked up brushes and a small amount of paint most of the time so I can't pound it on there. I have no printers I can use and blades are extremely triggering for me. Is it readable? Yes? Then it's fine. I'm doing what I can, shaming me won't do shit. Plus, you're discouraging new punks from doing what they can with what they have and forcing them to buy from potentially horrible places. I don't have the best paint, I don't have the best brushes, I don't have the best fabric, fuck I don't have the best surfaces to paint on but I'm doing what I can. If you're shaming the people unable to afford certain things, that's not very punk of you.

[tsunamis-for-uzumaki]

Tips for making actually cheap punk clothes from someone that has spent a maximum of $11 on any specific project over 3 years:

Bottle caps make AMAZING pins. There's countless ways to make bottlecap pins, but I mainly do it by 1) filling the cap with hot glue and 2) gluing a safety pin to the back. It's up to the individual. But the point is: Save bottlecaps.

DRINK CANS ARE AMAZING FOR MAKING SPIKES! Any aluminum can works - Monster cans, beer cans, etc. - all you have to do is cut off the tops and bottoms; make it a flat sheet; cut the metal into small semicircles; and roll it into cones. They stay in place easily with hot glue, and when you put them onto anything, they look just as good as store-bought.

Save Can Tabs. They can be put onto jackets, made into chains, earrings, necklaces, or anything else you want.

Literally anything can be made punk. Jeans, cargo pants, denim jackets, t-shirts, shoes, hoodies - the sky's the limit. Don't let these tiktok punks tell you that only their $80 Social Distortion pants and $120 denim jackets can be punk. Any clothes you pull out of a dumpster can be punkified.

Old T-shirts that no longer fit and have a design on them can be cut out and made into backpieces. Band shirts are particularly great for this, so if you thrift a Motorhead shirt that's too small, you can cut out the design and sew it onto a jacket and bam - you've got an exclusive piece of merch.

This one's more of an opinion, but: If you're patching up a jacket, sew the patches onto the outside of the jacket. If you're patching up pants, create holes where you want the design, and sew the patches from the inside of the pants.

Do research. If a "thrift store" calls itself a cheap alternative store, but has $50 jeans, it's not a thrift store. It's a vintage reseller, and the clothes are almost always WAY overpriced.

Shoplift carefully. Go somewhere you don't usually go - a large chain like Walmart or Target or Staples, not a local business - and take small things. Don't go somewhere that you're a regular at, or shoplift multiple times in a short period of times, or do too much at once. You will develop a track record and have more of a chance of being caught. However, the workers don't get paid less for you stealing, and the big suits in corporate won't notice or care about a missing pack of dental floss.

Experiment! Have fun with it! I've been Frankenstein-ing my jacket for years and counting - I've taken off the sleeves, added new sleeves, painted on it, put patches on it, added pins, anything you can think of. Be loud, be ugly, be weird, be happy.

If you have a painted patch or spot on pants/a jacket/whatever and it's old, but you want to take it off now, or if you just made a mistake, acetone can get pretty much any amount and age of paint out of any fabric. By acetone, I mean most nail polish removers or rubbing alcohols.

Now, I hate buying things for making punk clothes, but there are a few things that, in my opinion, are investments that last FOREVER. This includes: Hot glue guns; nail polish remover (for the last tip, mainly); paint pens and containers of paint (fabric or not); sharpies; dental floss or just normal thread; fabric scissors; and SAFETY PINS. None of them are very expensive, but they'll come in handy for years.

ESPECIALLY SHARPIES. That's the one thing I won't debate is a perfect investment. You can get a set of 12 colors or 12 black ones for like $9, and you can use them for EVERYTHING. The color also won't bleed when washed, as opposed to most pens and markers.

SAFETY PINS ARE A FASHION STATEMENT IN AND OF ITSELF. They're super useful in making clothes and jewelry, they're cheap and easy to find, and just nice to line the hems of your pants with.

When you make a square patch, fold in the edges slightly so that the edges don't fray. This makes it slightly harder to sew on, but it keeps the patch in good condition for longer - unless the idea is to look tattered. Then don't.

Don't be afraid to add something random and weird to your clothing because "oh people are gonna see it and know I like this weird niche thing" - that's the whole point! It's an expression of who YOU are, not what people want you to be. If people - especially other punks - judge you for it, fuck them. Unless...

No swastikas, no iron crosses, no symbols of oppression, no TERF shit. I'd say that's the only rule of punk - to say "oppression is punk" is going against everything punk stands for. Of course, if you do it anyways, you should at least know you deserve the beating you get at a basement show attended by underpaid and rage-filled faggots.

Of course, these are just mine, and there's plenty more that I do not know. If you've got your own way of doing things that goes against mine, that's awesome. But if you need to start somewhere as a kid punk, I hope this helped.

[transgenderunionthug]

More of my embroidery work! It's all for an upcoming folk punk jacket project!

[ratten-man]

Patchshorts update

Update on my patchshorts. I started them in 2023 but most of my progress is from june 2024.

Summary of what Ive accomplished: extended the width of the legs with sweatpant fabric, lined half of the patcshorts, added many patches.

What I still need to do: add patches to the seam of the sweatpants to prevent the pants from tearing, add patches to all jean fabric spots, finish lining.

[ribsnapz]

making patches #yay gonna do fla and skuppy next

[lesbiany2kvampiregirls]

My new patch. Took me a whole afternoon.

[sunanthrope]

I made a pinterest board of DIY ideas for punks

let me know if you want to collab on it idk

edit: join/collab requests have been made public

[21stc3nturyd1gitalb0y]

started a new battle vest

[queer-rat-king]

Photos from the crappy punk rock show last night (featuring my mohawk before and after 3 hours of headbanging, moshing, and skanking)

Had a great time with my friends!! (My feet hurt)

[melancholic-mutt]

making patches for my battle vest !!! :3

stay safe today everyone !!! make sure to go out and vote if you can :) here’s to hoping trump doesn’t get in office (cause if he does we are all absolutely fucked) 🍻🍻

[happy-and-gay-tortoise]

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL FITTTT

Bringing some old old pieces back lol for the ootd :D

[carve-the-bones]

New patch :) I’ve been wanting a Black Sabbath patch for a while and was debating between painting and buying one but I think this design is cool enough to be worth the price

Also picked up some studs for my vest as well so maybe I’ll get around to adding them before classes start

[skramzwannabe]

Absolutely love this sweater I got 2day

Xx

[patched-up-pants]

The time has come to show the last of my tops - a denim sherpa jacket bought for the sole reason of filling in for my coat when I lack clean clothes that go well with it, or when I just want more freedom of movement generally in the winter. It's warm, it's comfy like a big sweater, just a bit stiffer, and the stiffener sewn into the collar keeps the neck warm perfectly. Even if it doesn't exactly cover the throat.

Long before making it, I'd already had a vision of a Grabaż tribute jacket/vest, and when the opportunity presented itself, I took it eagerly. His two most well-known bands' names on both the back and the front, symbols closely related to them on their respective sides, and each group's year of forming on the appropriate shoulder. And, of course, the man's almost legendary nickname on the shoulder blades.

[louniey]

Real proud of this T-shirt print I just made! It’s the band horror vacui which are one of my favorites right now

For anyone interested: I printed out a picture of the picture and then put tape on both sides to make the paper stencil not as fragile when cutting, then I cut out the stencil and glued/taped it on the T shirt with a piece of cardboard underneath so it doesn’t bleed thru, then I just used a little sponge to press on about 3 layers of white fabric paint!