Invaders Dark, Shoulder Patches: on to the machine!

lot's of machine work lined up for me!

hope everyone has a great weekend!



Invaders Dark: Shoulder Patches

shoulder patches cut, glued, and ready for the sewing machine!

20 in all:

Invaders 2nd, or alt: Part 7

so i ended up going with this shoulder patch:

did some funky stitching. 1 non-stop zig-zag stitch the whole way around. then i had to hide the white thread with a black sharpie:

not sure what exactly the shoulder patch is? it's the "I" from the original logo. added a drop shadow. have another look at the "I"

Invaders 2nd, or alt: Part 6

here are some shoulder patch ideas i've been playing around with:

Invaders 2nd, or alt: Part 5

new shoulder numbers...

because there is so much yellow on the shoulder yolks (and i'm currently out of white material):

instead of using the white-black-yellow of the 1st shoulder numbers:

i decided black-yellow-black would look pretty sharp!

we'll soon see how that turns out...

Invaders 2nd, or alt???

what's this mess all about you ask?!?! it's the early stages of either the Invaders 2nd jersey, or alt., because there will be 3. only this one pictured will be extremely limited. only those that really want one can talk me into making one... and we all know that won't be to difficult to do... :-)

look a bit fimilliar?

44s

well, 44 and an "S"

happy new year everybody! took a little break from the blog, no biggie.

to ease into 2011, I'm finishing up the final few Invaders jerseys!

that means newer edition to the team, Adam's 44 shoulder numbers:

got out the templates, and started with the yellow. put sticky on the back of the templates so they don't slide around when tracing:

note on the template reads: TV #4 Yellow Back

"TV" means TV numbers. it's what they call shoulder numbers in football. the rest of the note should be fairly obvious:

tracing the black material:

all cut and ready to be glued & sewn. also a random "S" that i had lost for a front Invaders logo:

that's it for now! almost finished with the Invaders project!

again, happy new year and best wishes in 2011 and beyond...

quickie DIY

i had a few spare Invaders shoulder numbers laying around, so i decided to put them to good use.

also, got to try out a tighter stitch that worked much better and faster:

looks pretty cool on the shirt, eh?

wait... what was that shirt? ;-)

(more pics of that shirt to follow soon!)

threw them on a gym bag that i use all the time:

not bad...

Invaders shoulder patches

here is a pic of the shoulder patches being "assembled"

i glued down the yellow invader guy first on a larger piece of twill. i then lined up the state of PA halves around it, and glued them into place. i worked from the middle out, rather than placing the state of PA perfect first, then lining up the invader guy. much more wiggle room, or room for error when you work form middle out. i sewed all that down. when finished i placed all the squares and the rectangle onto the newly sewn patch, glued & sewed. then i cut the outline with scissors by "eyeball" only. no marks on the edge of the patch.

finished:

credit to TK for the photo! looks great!