3 shades of blue, to create the effect.
I'm most proud of the Edge of Sanity patch. It's a version I made myself, as it needed to be simplified for embroidery ideally, but I love what I came up with.
This'll be my new night-out jacket for sure.
Honestly I'm so excited about this. Me and a friend put a lot of work into this and we've donated it to the scene to raise money for more gigs to be put on. It's given a lot of bands some highlighting on socials, which always helps, and it's something I so so proud of.
I just wanted to share the completed project as I know a few of you were following the progress.
We had Coalition Fest at the end of August, where this photo was taken and the auction was announced on stage. I was interviewed about it and my business in general on Stage 2 between some of the bands (screenshot included haha).
It was just such a surreal experience. I've never really had anything I've done be recognised in any way publicly, and I'm not typically a speaker when it comes to crowds, so this was just a pic of me so out of my depth it's unreal lol.
Some info on the work:
Battle Axe Jackets Paintwork: 20~ hours
Embroidery machine stitch time: 20-25 hours
Hand cutting and hand finishing the patches: 3ish hours
Layout playing: 2 hours-ish over the course of half a day
Hand sewing them on: 12-ish hours over a week
Healing time for fingers: 1 week. 😆
The large back piece is done in 3 patches to get it as big as my machine would go for the full logo.
It has over 60 bands on there, all local to the London scene and have played under the LMC banner.
I just wanted to share a feel-good post about something really positive coming from the power of battle jackets! I hope some of you will appreciate this sort of post as something a little different. We're hoping it'll raise a lot of money on eBay for some more awesome gigs in London. It's been up a day and we're up to £200~ right about now. I'm hoping someone in one of the bands just has to have it and goes a little overboard on the bidding. 🤣
Have a good weekend all!
This project took me hours on the embroidery machine, plus nearly a dozen hours hand-stitching all the patches on, and took my friend hours of paintwork to do the skulls and snakes.
This will be auctioned or raffled off at the upcoming Coalition Fest in London at the end of the month.
The idea was to bring together all the bands playing under the London Metal Coalition banner onto one awesome jacket to give a snapshot of the London underground scene, whilst raising money for a good cause - Local live metal.
I've added 2 venues (with permission) who regularly host LMC gigs, most of them free-entry, and are well-known to be pillars of the scene (The Dev and Signature Brew) There was a third planned for the centre that never got back to me, so I improvised with a "Keep London Heavy" patch I designed a while ago. The two swords are my own designs, and the shield patch they're surrounding is a "London Metal Valkyries" patch I bought at a gig they hosted - It's the Women and Non-Binary branch of London Metal Coalition who put on their own awesome gig's featuring the women and enby's of metal bands based in London.
Anyways, you can follow me on Instagram to see the reveal coming this week - I've just got to edit the video I got of my husband modelling it to actually give the promotion of it something more than a few pics. 😁
Patches by Me, Vikki, at Social Rebellion Patches and Artwork by Kirstie at Battle Axe Jackets (we both take commissions!)
Hey all, hope everyone's enjoying pride month and hope some of you have or are going to make it to a Pride event this month! I did London Metal Pride yesterday with my stall and it was such a lovely day. Bands from 1pm-11pm and the most varied crowd of inclusive metalheads that you can get.
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10% discount code just for JacketsForBattle folks: JACKETSFORBATTLE
These are currently only on Etsy due to needing to figure out how to add text boxes to Shopify!
Still going at it trying the breathe new life into my stores! It's been a long but much needed 3 weeks. I only tend to go on a bit of 'new patch streak' when the summer is approaching, by June it tends to get a bit busy with pride month, but until then, I'm making the most of the tumbleweeds and crickets in the new orders section.
The "Staring at me makes me even more queer" was inspired by an experience me and my non-binary sibling shared on the London Underground recently. We were waiting in the tube for the next one and a man was giving my sibling dirty looks as he got on the train. We obviously gleefully smiled and waved at him back which just made his face like thunder as the doors were shutting. 🤣
No more data centres, well the inspiration is obvious but what you may not know is that I live in the world's 2nd most populated place for data centres. All the small workshops are gone and I have no hope of expanding into printing or other crafting like I've always wanted to do as I currently work from my small bedroom.
We also have some pride-themed guitars. I like combining pride flags with other topics and interests as I find it a bit more interesting than just straight-up flags.
Anyone have any particular favourites? I'm always looking for new patch ideas as it's the only way to keep up with the dropshippers and Ali-Express sellers sometimes so all ideas welcomed. It takes a while for them to get indexed properly and start selling so I don't get much indication of what's working until this happens, so your thoughts are definitely wanted.
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I've been wanting an anti-trump patch with an alternative feel for a while, and voila, I made this with my favourite font.
This weekend I've added a few more to the website and to Etsy. :) I really like the Trump one, I think not enough anti-Trump patches have that alternative feel to them so I made one that does with the font. The goose one was a fun one I did for a friend who is really into his geese and quails and watching them up the park, but I thought I'd list it anyway after all the effort I went through for it 🙂.
The down with AI one I used a cyberpunk-y font for as I thought it worked really well. If you like that one, I also have an older one I did with "Stop AI Art" on it and a 6-fingered hand. 😁
Anyone have any particular favourites? I'm always looking for new patch ideas as it's the only way to keep up with the dropshippers and Ali-Express sellers sometimes so all ideas welcomed. It takes a while for them to get indexed properly and start selling so I don't get much indication of what's working until this happens, so your thoughts are definitely wanted.
Check out my Linktree if you want to give me a follow on IG/TikTok or have a look at my shop :)
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Updated my gig bag in accordance with seeing The 900 tonight in London!
Having the ability to make patches means I can do cool things like this for the odd gig I go to 😆. The last one was a massive Enter Shikari patch.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater and it's soundtrack were formative for my music taste from a young age. I can't wait to see this band tonight! 😁
I've had a recent software upgrade that I've been playing with to create the cool gradient backgrounds on the Eye rolls, My Body My Choice and Memento Mori & No Gods No Masters patches.
I'm £260 down on the software upgrade so I hope people like them because I'm close to skint now. 😭😂
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These are some of my favourites I've done in a while. It's been ages since I had a bit of time to really go through the to-do list of patches and get some of them done.
As always, you can get them at www.socialrebellionpatches.com
Or go to my Linktree if you want to give me a follow on IG or look at what else I do. :)
The elections this week were horrendous.
We're in for a nightmare come next General Elections.
Anti Reform UK patch. For those of us sick of the racism, the lies and their followers.
You can get it on my website or my Etsy as per usual.
Want cheap/free healthcare? Radical leftie.
Want abortion and contraception access? Radical leftie.
Don't want to breathe excessive amounts of pollution and support measures to curb it? Radical leftie.
Funny enough I just realised this is the first band I've ever seen that had no backdrop at all. Even the smaller metal bands I see here use the projector screen behind and have a backdrop running from a laptop. I love noticing small irrelevant details like this. 😂
Native James has got to be the best support act I've witnessed where I walked in having no idea of who they were or what they were like. The ferocious energy was top tier.
Been a busy month working on the patches for the Official London Metal Coalition Battle Jacket I'm making, handful of bands down, and a huge lot to go... I'll get there though, hopefully before August when we raffle the jacket off at a mini-festival (if you're near London you should come! - The sewing club will be there too!)
Most of these are bands, but the Signature Brew one is one of the venues we use for gigs that have given permission for me to recreate their patch for the jacket project.
The memorial patch was a nice one to work on. A customer who has ordered a lot of patches from me to gift to her friend wanted something designed as that recipient friend sadly passed away. She gave me a brief and an example and asked if I could somehow make it rainbow for her.
The Battle Jacket Sewing Club London wanted a run of 20 patches to sell at the club. I took their logo and used a combo of normal and special matt threading to make them stand out better.
And my Dad, who is building a really cool jacket for a newbie in his 50's, asked for the Amon Amarth one lol.
Anyways, someone asked me what it was like making patches and it made me realise some people do actually care about hearing the back story next to the pictures so there ya go.
I've included some links to parts of this project for those intrigued, try and make it to the one of the gigs one day if you can!
Signature Brew is my favourite venue and I'm so lucky to get to see Enter Shikari of all bands there tomorrow night! I see lots of local bands there and have held a stall there quite a few times now, if you're going tomorrow you're in for a treat, the band will perform right next to massive brewery vats, it's a unique type of venue.
I make patches that I design myself for my work, but I use my machine for awesome custom projects like this for myself from time to time and to practice doing bigger pieces like this one. :D
I used the very first logo I know of from the early days in 2006 when they were pinned to my MySpace profile.
I'll be going on my own tomorrow so hope to make some new friends in the queue or bar beforehand. See you there!