[Lain]

Do it! it's a lot of fun and you end up with something unique and with a lot of meaning when you do finally finish it.

yeah honestly i should
my school also has a patch-making machine in their makerspace, so i could even make them for free basically.
that being said, it's pretty buggy and screws up a lot, so maybe i'll need to tinker with it myself before actually making anything...

pictured: GF tried to make a patch of some anime school crest for a cosplay she was making, and allegedly she got farther than most other people who tried using the machine:



notice the crumpling in the middle, loose threading for the gold/orange, and really rough/inconsistent borders?

although especially for the borders, it really might just boil down to the fact that the base fabric has a very low thread count so there are a lot less discrete spots to thread the, uh, thread. not to mention the thread also looks like it's not entirely consistent with its own width. so it might not be machine error, but just the fact that the school stocks cheap supplies to work with in order to keep everything free for students. i'll have to play around with it all once everything opens back up, maybe in late august if we're lucky here.