How To Hand Make a Patch

Whhaaaaaaatup! What up guys. So today i'm going to show you how to hand stitch a patch.

So get your embroidery backing, cloth (fabric), and your image, along with hoop and your embroidery floss. next put your image under the backing and begin to trace it. I want the reverse image of [my drawing] so what I did is I flipped the backing around and put my cloth on top.

Now take your hoop. Place the smaller one underneath and begin to loosen the top one. you'll want it loose enough so you can place it over the cloth and the smaller hoop. Now pull on the edges of the cloth so it gets tight like a drum. I started with yellow because that will be the majority of the patch's color. You can turn on the light on on your phone and put that underneath so you can see where your image is.

your going to make your fist stitch from the bottom, tie a knot at the end of your string, and then come back on top. I like to start where the very top of the yellow will be and work my way down from there with a bunch of horizontal stitches. Just line by line, starting from right coming up from the back then coming in from the top on the left side.

I found that things ran a whole lot smoother if you cut of your excess string from that very first stitch you made.

If you run out of string or you are done with your first color, You're going to cut it and your going to split that sting in to two separate [stands] its made out of 6 lil strings so its going to be 3 and 3. you take one of the 3/s and sew it under the last stitch you made. and then proceed to make a square knot. left over right and right over left. And again cut off any extra string.

So to do the next colors just do like you did the first. tie a knot at the end of your sting and come in through the back and just layer it on there top to bottom. So rather than going horizontal for lines, on the crust i did vertical ones. Just to change things up.

once you get all your colors finished your going to add in your lines. you start this like any other. to fill in the line in this patch what you are going to do is your going to come from the back a little bit ahead of where you want your line to end then go down through the front where you want it to start. and your just going g to keep on doing this over and over again till you have all those lines filled in.

Next add a little bit of glue to stop it from fraying. add a dab of glue around the entire edge of the patch. once its dry you are ready for the last step: adding the outside line.

start from the back and pull up. where you think you would go back around and come up again from the back, you don't. you are going to make the next stitch from the top going down. any extra sting you have from the first stitch you can sew right around it, covering it up. mine was pretty long, so i did end up cutting it off.

now you're going to want to work your way around the entire patching. working side by side. making things as close as possible, that way no cloth underneath will be shown.

you end it just like any other one. split it in half. 3 and 3. take one of those, sew it through and tie a square knot. cut off any excess and vuala you have your patch. place it where you was it and your done! Looks good!

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[empoleonfangirl]

When you actually have the supplies to do this thank you grandma 😂

[snaileriepimpson]

This was posted 7 years ago but dude you are a godsend for me in 2024! Great video for me, a newbie. I’m happy I found your channel as I’m on my embroidery journey!

[ewwisuwu]

Man with secure masculinity, HE'S AN ICON

[talkingheadsfan]

got my first order in today. i announced my hobby to everyone and showed them my work and someone asked me to make a patch of their album cover so.. yay, i’m v happy right now!

[tensrose]

omg finally a tutorial that makes the patch look super professional <3333

[JustNicole]

You just inspired me to want to start doing this lol

[brandonyarchuk]

Thank you so much for putting out a high-quality DIY video. It's nice to see people showing tutorials for high-quality goods that will actually last, and not just a bunch of hot-glue crap. Subbed and liked.

[nottori]

I’m about to start a custom jean jacket project, so this popped up on my Home feed just in time.

[Heliocanix]

for future reference here's some editing advice. For projects like this where your hands are moving a lot doing a speed up video makes it really hard on the eyes, I would recommend just doing montage and dissolve cut different levels of progression next to each other. That way we could not only see what you're doing but also it would be easier to watch!

[thegrayareainlife]

instructions unclear, fingers are currently sewn together

[dexmiller]

I saw this tutorial a bunch of years ago when I was first starting to do embroidery and since then I've been running a (semi) successful hand embroidery business! Thank you!

[arturiapendragon]

I have been trying to transfer my images onto the fabric, but they never turned out good enough. Thanks to you, now I will try putting the drawing into the hoop with the fabric. As a beginner in embroidery, I cannot tell you how happy I am right now. Thank you! <3

[ameliadimm]

This is the first video of yours I've seen and it's super high quality, the tutorial is very informative, the patch looked so professional and your intro is really cute lol

[kngznart]

I'm 25 seconds into the video, never heard of your channel before, already subscribed. 10/10

[k_rinabeena]

wowza this is the best handmade patch tutorial I've seen so far, thanks mate

[hunnqy]

Istf patches take so much time and patience to finish them, so much work, yet it's so enjoyable. If anyone's not experienced in this sweing stuff I recommend cross stitching because it is much easier and takes less time and effort, it turns out better too than straight up trying embroidery with no experience. Great job my dude, the patch looks amazing, i hope one day I'll be able to make my patches look this professional too!

[evilschokolade]

this is exactly the kind of tutorial i was looking for as I m pretty perfectionistic and want my patch to look as good as possible
thanks for making it!

[kellsfreeman]

8 years later and you're still helping others <3
Thanks

[ItsJuicyJett]

Confused as to why you only have 82 subs??!! Awesome quality!!! Sick patch!!

[jackthetripper]

This is the most straightforward how-to video I've seen. No 5 minute long intro or anything!