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Sewing on badge patches
« on: September 27, 2020, 03:56:01 PM »
I nearly blew a fuse but perforated a thumb a few times instead.  :o This was me struggling to sew two badges onto my leather jacket sleeves. Apart from needing a wooden beer mat and my nail clippers to get the needle through I found aiming the needle from inside the sleeve a bit like that blind fold game of pinning the tail on the donkey. Is there a proper way of going about this?.....Julie?  ;D
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Re: Sewing on badge patches
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2020, 04:09:03 PM »
I nearly blew a fuse but perforated a thumb a few times instead.  :o This was me struggling to sew two badges onto my leather jacket sleeves. Apart from needing a wooden beer mat and my nail clippers to get the needle through I found aiming the needle from inside the sleeve a bit like that blind fold game of pinning the tail on the donkey. Is there a proper way of going about this?.....Julie?  ;D

I used to stick mine on with glue and just put a stitch at each corner to make sure it never fell off  ;D ;D ;D. I tried sewing on a Triumph patch once, never again  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Sewing on badge patches
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2020, 04:24:29 PM »
I used to stick mine on with glue and just put a stitch at each corner to make sure it never fell off  ;D ;D ;D. I tried sewing on a Triumph patch once, never again  ;D ;D ;D
This is what I ended up doing. You know those sticky leather patches you can get on ebay for patching sofas et al ? I sewed the badges onto them and cut around the edges with scissors  because they are thinner and you can see what you are doing, and stick them on, however I quickly discovered they need support as you have done by corner stitching, alas, that was enough of a challenge to have me ask on here!
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