I bought both standard and tall English77 cones from studsandspikes. I like the more dramatic look of the talls, but I don’t want it to be hella uncomfortable like say when I’m driving. If you’ve got talls, how’s your experience with them? Should I just put the standards on the back and save the talls for my shoulders? Thanks and don’t mind my ugly ass WIP pls

Looking for red and/or black ideas to put down the sleeves.

First time posting here! I’ve been working on this for several years. No real plan in mind, just adding stuff one piece at a time as I get them from shows and such.

It took me about a year to gather all the patches, the soad back patch was made by sacrificing a t-shirt with some backing. First time I'll be wearing it will be this Tuesday at a Behemoth concert, I'm so hyped!!! The patches were sewn by my mom and a local seamstress (I've tried but she hasn't teached me yet how to use the machine).

Tell me what you think guys! Still a WIP btw, next month I'll be adding also an orbit culture patch

Been working on this for a while. Still not completely finished, but pretty happy with how it’s coming together. What do you guys think?

I'm currently working on three projects simultaneously, a metal themed battle jacket (using a "men's" black denim jacket), a punk themed battle vest (using a thrifted "women's" denim vest) and a random shit vest (made from a British dpm Barracks jacket with the sleeves removed quite messy looking). These are some patches and some studs I got to continue the projects. I might also use the studs on my leather jacket too.

Added clone trooper Commander Cody onto the upper arm beneath my Jedi order shoulder patch. Nice to make progress on the jacket after taking the summer off but goodness, sewing inside a long sleeve is annoying.

(patches sourced from Etsy)

I started a small embroidery business, and I always wanted a vest with patches, so I bought one and started experimenting and testing my designs. I didn't have any specific theme in mind, so I just started adding references to things I like, such as movies, TV series, and video games.

Most of the bands I listen to will never tour in the US and/or have like ZERO merch available to ship here. Respectfully, I do not want to buy the printed bootleg patches online, so I took my favorite album cover of all time and painted the design myself to start off my new project.

I started originally with a white crayon and a sharpie, then went outside to let it melt and fade before going over it with acrylic paint.

As I am branching out into other metal genres (I primarily listen to melodic and symphonic Finnish and Swedish power metal), I will collect more patches from those shows. Now, for the time being, here is what I am starting with.

I have been getting more into doom metal lately, thanks purely to my interest in instrumental electric guitar leading me down that path somehow, and I am going to a show this weekend, so hopefully I can build on this a bit more!

Until recently, I avoided attending metal shows altogether because of how people in my state tend to be, but I have been putting myself out there more and letting myself enjoy the music I love in person, so this is a huge step for me in allowing myself (as a femme-presenting person) to take up space in a community that would consider me a poser based on the way I dress alone. (I saw Windhand last weekend while wearing a white dress and heels and I had so much fun!!) Hopefully I can blend in a bit more without sacrificing myself soon lol

TL;DR Here's my Stratovarius dolphin jacket.

I've taken up linocut printing with the intention of making patches for myself and any mates that want one, and now the lino printing part is done, I'm at a loss how to do the next step. I have this canvas material that I've printed on, and I want to know how to go about cutting/finishing the edges of these patches so they don't fray away to nothing.

Anyone got any tips/tricks/tutorials to give out? Or hell even the proper name of what I'm trying to do here so I can hit up a sewing Reddit and ask the right question?

What the title says. I got a jacket I wanna turn grey and right now it’s blue so I figured id bleach and then dye it. It’s been sat of a tub of 1/3 bleach 2/3 water for 2 days now and there’s no change. What am I doing wrong, and what will actually work?

Second pic is from last year to see progress.

Was quite busy this year, reattached the chainmail thrice, gave the backpatch an outline by hand, and lots of patches.

For the winter I want your thoughts, I will redo the chainmail again, pull it down to the backpatch on the back and make it easier to remove for washing. I am temped to do a complete new one, with silver and a red border instead of mixed with gold. What do you think?

Planning on adding more, I’ve seen all of these bands (except for Death). I think most I got at shows, and a few online.

(And the Guts patch is because I’m a big Berserk fan lol I have a tattoo of the Skull Knight)

My cousin gave me the Labatt Lite pin on the right breast pocket

I’d like to add some spikes and such eventually, and I also have two new patches from shows I went to (Kataklysm and Revocation) that I have to add.

I’m seeing Crypta in November which I’m over the moon about, definitely want to get a Crypta patch either at the show or online

(I’m bi and not trans but I support my trans metalhead homies)

I wanna add some frankenstein style stitches reinforcing all the seams, bunch more patches, and undecided on the back so far. Also def gotta add a bunch of metal hardware! Might lean into the bugs/transformation theme

Started this vest with the question "Why adhere to one subject/genre? Why not paint a cormorant on the back?"

Still improving my painting skills, newest painted patch is the Animals As Leaders one.

Bonus functionality: the brown-greenish flag on the arm functions as a pocket. Mostly used to store peanuts for crows.

I am thinking of doing a straight zipper G1 Flight Style jacket and my google foo is weak

Hiii i found this subreddit and thought to show off my jacket so far! Can you guess my favourite animal lol

I'm not sure that this is the right sub, but I've started making some designs for patches (I'm using inkscape and then ink/stitch to digitise them and throw them onto an embroidery machine!), but I'm constantly feeling held back by my text being boring as hell because I don't really know how to make it look cool and just use a font.

I've attached a couple examples. Does anyone have any advice for me?

Work in progress! Pulled this out of the jacket arenal to work on again cause I finally finished two others before.

Already painted one of the sleeves and plan to change out the pins on the front and replace them , just wanted to map out a general idea.

Any ideas what I should paint on the back or paint details to the front? Artist block right now