Hi, I'm Corporal Suraj and I'm the master tailor of 10 Queen's
own Gurkha Logistic Regiment. Today I'm going to show you how to sew the patches on the
piece of clothing. I would recommend you need cottons, needles, pins, thimble and
patch. Today we have a green cotton over here because we are going to sew on the
green patches so it's gonna match with the colour green to green. So white one is
for the besting to do hold the patches when you sew on the
clothing. A thimble is there to make sure that when you sew you need a thimble
that make sure you don't hurt your fingers. Okay this is the needle I'm
going to use today. You need a thread that needs to go
through the eye of the needle. To do this you need to be a steady hand and you
need good light for this one. There you go. Just making a crease
on the shirt sleeve. Make sure that the crease should be in the centre of the
sleeve. So, give a crease.
So that crease will be your marker for the patches. Then you measure your sleeve
and the patch. So that will be perfect measurement for the patch. Then you mark
it at the bottom and the top of the patch. Then you need a pin. Make sure you line up
that crease just in the middle of the patch.
So you make sure that crease run just middle up the patch and you got two pins
there to hold the patch. So I just made a knot on the thread, the end of the thread.
So I'm gonna start it from the top corner of the patch. So when I start from
the bottom I'm gonna start it from under the shirt. So that the knot's gonna stay
on the shirt. Yeah, crease the middle and pull so that knot will hold the thread
When you sew the patch make sure you follow the same line of the patch so that
will hide your thread. Into the shirt and back out on the same line of the seam.
Make sure you keep on checking the patch on the line, sometimes it's gonna go left
and right and move outwards and inwards. When it frays it's easy to fray from the
corner so when you have a double thread on the corner of the patch it will
hold tight and strong it is very important you take a time because if you
do that in rows so that your patch might not be in the centre and it won't be the
strong as you want it to be. When it comes to the corner just remember double
thread in the corner and back to same. Follow
the seam line that's what we need a thimble for safety of your finger
sometimes the thickness of metals and it's harder to push in so that time
you that if the needle will hurt your fingers. At this point you you can take
off your pins. Keep on checking your patches and the crease they it has moved
to left and not. So I'm making sure it is in the centre of of the crease
As you can see we started from there, so you can see the knot in there so once
you come to that bit just sew it under the knot and make a knot over it. When you
come to the end and you have made a knot make sure you don't snip the knot when
you snip the thread. The patch is just in the centre and the crease just in line
with the patch, making sure it's this middle of the Kukri and the final
bit we're gonna press it over the patch so that can marry the line with a crease
and just follow the crease line
make sure you turn it over and press it again. Here is the final product hope you
find this useful and hope to see you in next one.