Hey, everyone. It's me Wendy in this video. I'll be showing you how I made these rose (laughs) rose patches and
There's also a monogram on the back obviously we'll get into that in the tutorial. Especially on bomber jackets I've been noticing
Roses everywhere monograms everywhere and even souvenir jackets in themselves seems to capture this whole lush
Embroidery type of concept so you can do this to upgrade any clothing that you own mine was a Satin bomber that I thrifted
The main thing is that usually these are made with embroidery
But embroidery takes a really long time and so I wanted to figure out a way to get it done faster
But still have a really nice and lush look this jacket. This jacket upcycle is actually in collaboration with q2han
Hi, if you came from q2han's video. They are two really adorable youtubers that have tons of sewing tutorials. I love their style
They took a denim jacket and added a hood as well as a slogan on the back. It's awesome
Let me know if you like this tutorial
Subscribe if you don't want to miss any in the future and at the end of this
I will take you over to the q2han video if you haven't seen that yet
Let's go! To create the colorful fuzzy patches of the rose
I took a bright red thin fleece
also
grabbed a dark green thin fleece for both of these I just got one eighth of a yard which was the
Minimum order at the Fabric store and the last material for these roses was the black leather that I wanted to use as the backdrop
I actually had this black leather from a previous tutorial and
Obviously for ethical reasons if you're against using real leather you can use pleather or any other kind of rich
Backing that can hold all of your fleece in place
I really liked the color of this jacket when I thrifted it
But it already came with one chest decal which is maybe why it ended up at the thrift store
I think it says Cedar point Marina
my goal will be to cover up this anchor on the back of the jacket is totally smooth and clean a
Really really ideal canvas for putting on some solid lettering to make sure I completely
Cover this front decal I measured the width and the height of it
it was roughly 8 cm wide and 9 cm
tall so I just made sure that my rose design was more than 9x9
And that guaranteed that it would cover it completely on my computer
I found a rose design that I liked and I increased the
Zoom until it was just over the 9x9 cm from there
You can put a white piece of paper over top and then using the screen on Max brightness
Trace out the design of the rose always use a marker and trace really gently you
Definitely don't want to use anything sharp that could potentially scratch your screen after tracing
I
thickened up every single line by going over it twice so that it was extra thick then as you can see I cut out all
of the little pieces in between just leaving the part with the black marker I flattened out the red fabric so that I was looking
At the wrong side and then placed this rose stencil on top to make my life a little bit easier
I did add some tape to hold down the stencil and from there
take a really thin sharpie marker or something else that draws really easily on Fabric and
just go over all of the shapes that need to be cut out since this is all happening on the wrong side of the fabric
It will not show through on the right side when you attach it. I'm going to go ahead and detach my stencil
I next taped the stencil to the wrong side of the green fabric so I could get the leaf Shapes done as well the black
Leather is going to be the backing for my patch
I take my stencil flip it over and then tape it down so that now it's
Backwards from what I originally
Traced onto the green and onto the red make sure you have a small sharp pair of scissors
And I found it easiest to go one by one. First, I focus on the largest outermost piece of the red fabric. Cut that out,
glue it down, and then work my way inwards one by one. The glue that I'm using is called Okay-To-Wash It.
I've used it many times before and I can testify it is okay to wash this glue
I've washed a lot of things held together with this glue in the past, and it's totally worked. Trace
it gently all the way around then take the piece of fleece that you just cut and
lay it down
onto that open area of the stencil. For areas where the little pieces of red gets smaller and smaller I actually find
It's really helpful to lift the entire stencil a bit
And then glue it down just eyeballing it instead of trying to shove it through the stencil because sometimes they don't align perfectly
And you could end up gluing the red more to the stencil then to the backing which won't be helpful. Okay,
I got the leaves and the rose all glued down
So I'm going to slowly and gently lift the stencil off of the black leather.
Just take your sweet time for this because some of the pieces might be a little bit clingy to the stencil
You just have to be gentle with it. Taking a stronger pair of scissors, I cut
equal distance all the way around. I was basically about a half
centimeter away from the Rose design you want to go all the way around to try to make it as smooth as
possible and when you're done, you're going to have your first patch. Using the exact same method
I actually already made a symmetrical patch, so these are ready to go left and right on the bomber jacket.
But before we get to that
I'll also go over how I did a nice leather monogram on the back of the jacket using the exact same
tracing method from my desktop. I found a font that
I really liked and traced out "With Wendy". With great patience
go ahead and cut out every single letter. The main key is that you want to preserve this
outside shell that is the 8.5x11 paper.
I cut as accurately as possible along the line to preserve as much as I could. Once the letters were removed
I used a little bit of tape to
reattach the parts of the paper that I had to cut through in order to get to the
letters that were on their own island. Now it can be taped
face down on to the wrong side of a leather and that way once we're done tracing and cutting it out the
proper way of viewing it will be on the right side of the leather. Again, using that thin black sharpie marker
Trace along the entire outer shell on that piece of paper and it will transfer the complete outline
onto the leather. Some of your letters might have holes in the middle like my Y,
D, and E, and so are those I brought back the piece that I had cut out just so I could follow the whole shape
in the middle to position that correctly. Go ahead and place those two roses on the front of your jacket,
you can position them as wide or as narrow as needed all
depends on how you want it to look. I actually attached it with a little bit of masking tape so that I could put on
the jacket and see how it looked. Before gluing it down
remove the masking tape then go in with some really good glue, again I am using the Okay-To-Wash It glue and
cover the areas gently so that you can glue it down. You'll want to hold out the fabric
completely flat underneath the glue as it's drying because it's a bad time to be putting any puckers in and
for the little bits of glue residue that ended up sticking out
I later cleaned it up with a wet q-tip, and that was super effective.
We're going to leave the front to dry and on the back
I took that 8 1/2x11 sheet of paper and taped it smack dab in the center
along the upper half of my bomber. Dab really lightly with that same glue in the open areas of your stencil and then
bring over those pieces of leather that you cut out laying them down one by one to fill in the gaps.
Once everything has been placed you can gently and carefully lift away the paper
Some little bits of leather might need a little bit of snipping to clean them up
but otherwise this is ready to go. Give it a little bit of time to dry and
here is how mine turned out in the end.
Let me know if you like how this jacket turned out. You can also find more photos of it on my Instagram,
it is @withwendy. In the theme of flowers and springtime, I wanted to give a shout out to a video
I also just uploaded with CBC Life. I'll put a link for you, but I showed how to do a
do-it-Yourself Dollar store
spring themed
Table-setting, it was pretty fun. Make sure you check out the video from q2han,
and I'll see you all next time. Bye! This video is made possible by my amazing
Patreon supporters if you want to support me on Patreon go to patreon.com/withwendy