One of the fashions used to make your clothes different is to sew patches. Teenagers use them a lot to embroider them in their backpacks to go to college or university, in cloth cases or in cowboy jackets. The patches for clothes can be purchased at an affordable price in any physical or shop online for clothes, but no longer existing and very visible designs, like the mouth of the Rolling Stones, one of the most embroidery icons like a patch on the last decades.

If we want to be really different and we have a bit of skill, we can embroider our own patches on our clothes. Do not buy one and sew it, but create it ourselves. But how to do it? Do not worry, with a few simple guidelines, in this article of a HOW we show you how to embroider patches for clothes.

Choose the design or drawing

Before we start embroidering custom patches on clothes, the first thing we should have is a design or drawing to make our homemade patch, or if we have seen on the Internet or any other site that we like, print it. To start practicing, you can take some letters or a typographic logo, such as AC DC, since it is better to start with simple designs such as letters.

Trim the fabric

Take also a fabric of a certain thickness on which we will make the custom patch. Just do not go too thick, to see if then the needle will not pass. Cut the fabric with the measure you want, we recommend about 2.5 cm high by 5.5 cm wide. Although everything will always vary depending on how big you want to make the patch for clothes. These measures are only a guide in which you can do a good beginner job.

Drawing of soap on the fabric

The image we want to make in the patch is drawn by hand on the cloth with dry soap, since this allows you to draw on the fabrics without staining them, unlike if we did it with a marker.

Embroider patch

Once we have made the drawing of soap on the fabric, we choose the thread of the color that we like the most and we pass the thread through all the edges of the drawing. Once we have done the profile of the drawing, we embroider the sides of the piece of cloth that will be the patch. This can also be done by machine. The next step is to embroider the interior of the drawing that we had first reviewed with thread. If the drawings are some letters, now we would fill the inside of the letters with embroidery thread.

Sew it to the garment

Once we have our homemade patch for clothes, we just need to sew it to the garment that we like the most. In principle, it may not be perfect, but do not worry, sewing is practical and hours of testing.

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