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Okay. Being the user you originally asked, I used a different dye, Simplicol, which contained a bottle and a bag both of which were to be opened and placed in the washing machine. I find it highly questionable that you would use a BW Flecktarn parka btw, such a cliché. Would be cool though if you dyed it another colour, red would be cool.

To the tablar user,thanks for the explanations. I must say it looks quite shitty in the end, but must be quite some fun to go around wearing those and write shit on friends' ones.

I just like how it looks :) Doesn't bother me that it's a meme.
Dylon's a powder, do you think that'd be fine to just pour straight into the drum?

Do what the instructions say. They are made to help you use the product to its full potential.

alright, I'll stop worrying and do it.

My guess is you dyed a swiss m70 blue.

i meant original poster, i saw it on the last thread and nutted on myself

>but must be quite some fun to go around wearing those and write shit on friends' ones
it is

Apologies for the bad color temperature. It should be darker. 1.5 figure left + finishing touches.

>he's still going
Fugg :D

I'm Can anyone recommend some fabrics that'd look good to try make patchwork pants and possibly any inspo? Surprisingly didn't find much when I tried searching up.

Also do you have any mags related to what I wanna make? Or anything for good inspo?

I was wondering how hard would it be to make sneakers yourself?
I saw a video of Nic Galway talking about his EQT f15 3/3 which he didn't draw at all while designing, he just made the damn thing

I thought I could take the soles from some cheap/second hand/whatever shoes and make the upper from scratch.
I did some research on shoemaking, how running shoes and sneakers are put together and on paper it doesn't seem that hard.
Anyone ever attempted anything like this?

Watching as you commit sudoku on a poor innocent flecktarn parka..

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I haven't made sneakers before, but I'm excited to see you try, it sounds cool

What is the best cheapest substitute for natural indigo dye?

Made a mockup based on the ultra boost silhouette, since I was working with a keyboard and mouse
My idea was a shoe that you tighten by pulling the front part towards the back with laces and then an elastic band that would keep the midfoot snug.
I'll have to do some more research and figure out if this is actually doable. Also have to find some decent shoes to use as donors for the sole

blue blood
you can produce it yourself
it's in those little blue veins that you see under your skin
don't take too much at once though or you might dye
and eat enough protein to produce new blood cells

where can I get cheap/free sewing patterns?

Weren't the links posted in the previous thread sufficient?

shoesandcraft.com/

Due to the iron-rich nature of actual blood, you will get heavy oxidization and the final colour, even before washing, is going to be a rust to brown. A fair amount is going to wash out so you have to redye it a lot of times. The butcher will be able to provide that much amount of blood. You'll end up with a smell though.
dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/9552/1/boris-bidjan-saberi-menswear-a-w11

If you want a blue colour and you don't want to hassle with salt and buckets, stick to a dylon pack.
crafts.tutsplus.com/tutorials/shibori-fundamentals-how-to-make-indigo-dye--cms-21493

Just to note, indigo is kinda finecky and you have to baby it to get it to turn out right. Proper feels like alchemy though, reducing the oxygen levels and seeing the fabric turn from yellowey-green to blue in front of your eyes.

Really stinks as well, do it outside if you don't want a headache. I can post some simple shibori I did on T-shirts if anyone is interested.

I'm gonna sew a backpatch on my jeans jacket, of my own design. I want it to be the same shape as the "back" portion of fabric, so it overlaps perfectly. the process I was thinking is: make paper model > draw design > get it scanned > fix it a bit on Photoshop > get it printed on fabric > cut and sew fabric. last step is the trickiest because of the shape. got any advice?

If its your own design you could just paint / stencil the design onto a piece cut to size for the jacket. Then pin it and handsew.

Or is it too complex to be stenciled? then give your design a reasonable border, and use that area to fit it to the back panel.

pastebin

printed my favorite image onto a shirt..

original image

awesome bro I love it

eh in my intention it's gonna be a complex, intricate pen drawing, which is why I wanted to work on paper and then print it on fabric. might get kinda expensive tho. I have some experience with painting on fabric and the look I was going for never turns out good, the details get lost. Ideal would be a screenprint but it's not worth it IMO.

Ah, fair enough. I know what you mean with screenprinting, I have enough to do 1-colour at home, but its such a pain.

I have a few designs I wear as backpatches in acrylic on loose canvas. They hold up well to wear and don't scratch or flake.

You should look into printing on canvas, its actually pretty cheap. Their real profits are in doing photos on stretched canvas, so try and find a smaller co. that do loose pieces and it can be around $10.

acrylic on canvas can look good imho if it's grungey or prepared with gesso but I have a feel it wouldn't work for my design
pic related, a sketch, gotta fix the anatomy and add detail

ooh, pretty cool. I have been doing some botanicals in an outline style like that recently. If you have access to a scanner I am sure you can vectorise it and be able to print it onto fabric pretty easily.

pretty much my plan. gonna keep you guys posted, hope the thread survives!

please post pics!

thanks man :)

Wow, kill urself

Note colours lighten quite a lot with drying - these came out a Cyan or thereabouts. 10g did about 8-9 thin 100% cotton tees. I would guess 20g of indigo would achieve this colour when dry.

What kind of paint to use to color my leather Air Force 1?

Leather paint or dye. It should be somewhat pricey for a small amount. Get a roll of masking tape and tape off everything. Take the laces off and give them a wash while you're at it. Be prepared for wonky results. What colour?

agreed. total shite

Update?

I don't understand the hate, it's not ambitious at all but it's not awful either

Nah they were good links and good info on how to go about it. But there's no inspo of patchwork pants so it'd be hard to start off without a gathering an idea through collecting a good amount of inspiration from different pieces.

In terms of fabrics, not sure whether finding other types of jeans and such would one sufficient. I need to find a damn fabric store in my city, from there I can go ahead and start.

I am also looking into doing some nice indigo patchwork troosers project. As far as I can tell there are two elements to it.

1)plain colour patches, usually with a parallel line or cross stitched pattern on the top
2)a patterned patch, which is held on with straight stitching along the border

Add to this the decorative stitching and grids/circles for small rips or tears and you have a pretty authentic product.

So what do you need to get your hands on? Indigo dyed fabric scraps (Batik is the dye resist method used in both Japan and Indonesia, but also worth looking at shiboru and handpainted fabric) and the correct thread. Boru/Sashiko seems to universally use a coarse, thicker thread for it to look good. This stuff is pretty cheap too ! I've bought Olympus thread, and its lovely stuff compared to polyester thread.

Blood is never blue. Even the blood in veins under the skin that appear blue. Blue light can pass through the skin better, reflecting off the darker red blood in veins. Please don't injure yourself.

Can i make something like this with a single pair of pants and a large canvas painting? I don't know how close to this pair of pants it would look, for two reasons:
1: I think this technique works by taking 2 pairs of pants and cutting them into horizontal strips that you then sew together, but I only have one pair to fuck up.
2: the pattern on these patches repeats, while I only have one canvas painting, so you probably can't really tell what painting it is.

I don't have any sewing experience either so I'm thinking about just cutting the canvas into strips and gluing them on the pants (and maybe then sewing).

it died an honorable death.
Sorry for the delay, I was waiting for it to dry completely before taking any pics. The actual dyeing process was about 2 hours.
I dumped 2 packets of Dylon straight into the drum at the same time, placed the jacket (which I had soaked in the sink beforehand) on top of the dye, and then let it run on the hot cycle for 35 mins. Then added detergent for the second cycle and let that run on hot for 35 mins.
Came out looking like pic related.

Looks much darker in real life, but the camo is still subtly visible.
Very happy with it :)

My parka's 80% cotton/20% poly, in case anyone was wondering

I'm 5'8" and about to buy a meme parka but I'm not sure about the size. Can any fellow 5'8" manlet help me out?

anyone has kept the flecktarn camo on headgear part?

what's your chest size?

Are there any good online resources to get started with making my own garments?

My grandmother passed away recently and I've asked if I can have her old sewing machine - I was thinking of starting off by learning to taper trousers.

95 cm

Take your pick.
5'8 with 95cm chest would be a 2.
I got one that fit the measurements they have listed on these charts and it fits nicely with enough room for a sweater underneath.

you can also google "bundeswehr size chart" and you'll find a bunch of charts to help you.

I wanna do the whole "I did lsd once at shambhala and it totally changed, my life maaaaaaaaann" look this summer

Thanks for your help, so it's either 2 or 7. Do you think 7 is too long?

If you're between 160-170 cm tall, then I think 7 will be too long for you.

nice
did you also do the "mind bending mystery juice" design or was it there when you bought it?

Patterns come with instructions. A t shirt is a simple project that introduces you to how sew and how something is constructed. The fabric shop can help you which fabric to choose.

What kind of paint and what material jacket would I need to do something like this?

Or like this

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did you tape off the tag, velcro, and zip parts? I like the brown/black contrast

they are polyester, you can't dye them.

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trickyricky

works on the Amazon account, you can read from your computer
I deleted the payment information to protect myself and will add funds every month to pay for the Amazon unlimited account
Use it as much as you want, it's my gift to the board

Sheit bro u chill af senpai

Too kind too kind

That can go in the OP info if it's useful. Therearen't a lot of diy magazines available on the digital section butmaybe seeing the mags that I never flip through (gq, vogue, etc) will yield some good inspo

I don't know. It's prone to abuse

You could buy separate patterns, but then there's trouble with scanning them in and how to upload them. You need special software and a special printer for that. There are some books mentioned in the pastebin and in the previous threads where I can't find a .pdf of. We could buy them, scan them and upload to them to the MEGA link. Maybe we could do the same for old issues of fashion mags and books (FE: My Dear Bomb), considering how bollocks the latest runway thread was.

Why do you people keep on doing this?
There are thousands of different kinds of camouflaged parkas out there!
How mindfucked by the internet can one be?

it looks nice :^)

On it already, the first letters were green too (you can kinda still see the green) which looked fine but I think the tie dye added a level of hippy shit I can get behind

f.am I'm the mag user
you can read any of the Amazon Unlimited titles from your computer for free
and you can use google chrome's developer tools to filter the jpg URLs, that's how i get most of my magazines nowadays cuz it only costs 10 bucks a month

there's not a lot to it =)

acrylic paint works basically permanently on any non-stretch fabric (stretch too but it cracks)

"gay sex with hats" lmao

w2c?

fresh off tha sewing table

You do you, user

I like the diy aspect of everything, but the question mark could've been better i m o

"No, no you don't get it. It's MEANT to look like a 5 year old did it!"

AAAAAAAH! Overdyed camo looks nice nice most of the time! Get creative, nigger!

Amy surplus shop,there usually like 10-25 euro.
Its a German army flecktarn parka,pretty big meme piece.

No way you did that yourself

Damn, was meant to reply to you and didn't get round to it.

Thanks for the extra info user.

I'll look into finding these type of fabrics and I'll try buy some olympus thread. I'll need a bunch of needles, threads, pins, scissors etc. Ah this is going to be a pain but I'm excited.

thanks man

No prob pal. It'll be about a week til I have my hands on my patchwork stuff but I'll make sure to post it here when I do. Will be hoping to see stuff from you too!

Got any links of places to buy stuff? So far I've got this on my amazon list, but unsure what else I can get. I reckon UK amazon is quite limited.

You're probably a lot more knowledgeable so I'll probably be a long while before I even get started.

Nice artwork, you got a blog?

I've got some raw denim jeans from when I fell for reddit workwear memes.

I've barely wore them and now they go with none of my coats or shirts.

Can I lighten them with a drop of bleach in salt water?

How will the raw indigo dye react with bleach? I want to lighten them evenly.

at least it looks like. a question mark

I was so high I don't remember posting this here but yeah as so kindy mentioned it does look a bit shoddy

Angelus is the best imo. If you want it to look perfect you're gonna need to strip the factory coat off the shoes before painting. I would also use the finisher they sell too.

How do?
What's the texture like, is it actually apart of the shirts fibers or is there a vinyl like film on top?