Craft Check: T-Shirt Patch Jacket
June 2008 Issue
Features
- From the Editors
- Craft Check: T-Shirt Patch Jacket
Interviews
- Industry Interview: Sara Girard [Marketing Lead, D&D]
- Blogger Interview: Monique [Girls Don’t Game]
Articles
- Gender & Live-Action Role Play: Into Monster Camp, Part II
Author: Samara Hayley Steele
- Heroic Villainess
Author: Melissa Velte
- Capes and Consoles at WisCon 32
Author: Robyn Fleming
- Guest Star Villainy
Author: Brendan Davis
In this ongoing series, Samara shares her experiences as a female LARPer in a male-dominated LARP organization.
Melissa breaks down dichotomy between good and evil, hero and villain, with her piece on the complex motivations of Legretta the Quick.
Robyn regales us with tales of her adventures at this year's WisCon.
Brendan talks about how a "guest star" villain can add the necessary threat to motivate players without wiping them out before they can get started.
Gamer Stories
Reviews
Odds 'n Ends
If you’re like me, you have a lot of gaming geek t-shirts. And if your t-shirt collection is like mine, there are plenty that have bleach stains on them, or holes, or are otherwise unwearable except on laundry day. If there’s an image on the shirt that you like, though, you can recycle it into a nifty patch for a geek-punk jacket easily – no sewing skills required!
Cost: if you have an old t-shirt, some safety pins and a denim jacket already, you can consider this craft free.
Time: this is a quick craft. You won’t need more than fifteen or twenty minutes.
Skill level: if you can use scissors and safety pins, you’re ready.
Equipment:
- Old t-shirt with an image you like
- A jacket or other garment to embellish (a lightweight denim jacket works best)
- Scissors
- Safety pins
- Something to mark fabric with, such as chalk
Step 1: Outline your design
Look at the image you want to preserve from the t-shirt and plan out how you’d like to cut it out. A rectangle will be the easiest thing to pin to your jacket, though other geometric shapes can work out pretty well. Once you’ve decided where you want to cut, draw a faint outline with your chalk.
Step 2: Cut out your design
Cut out the design along the line you sketched. Don’t worry if it comes out a little ragged.
Step 3: Pin
Now, you’ll put the design against the back of your jacket and pin it in place. If the design is symmetrical around a center line, you’ll probably want to center that line against the back seam of the jacket, if it has one. Start your pinning in any places where you want the t-shirt patch to align exactly with some feature of the jacket, and work from there.
Keep adding pins until you feel that the patch is securely attached to the jacket.
Step 4: Look awesome
Your jacket is ready to wear!
Using the pin-on t-shirt patch method means that you can easily remove the patch before washing the jacket, or switch out different designs whenever you feel like it. If you want something a little more permanent, you might experiment with sewing t-shirt patches into place.
