The Ultimate Guide to Alternative DIY (goth/punk & more!)

Sorry this is very long but your video really took me back 40 yrs ,just like watching me as a young woman making &amp; remaking clothes ..Sorry about my typing I&#39;m using a vouce/ typing app.for blind people .<a href="http://i.am/">I.am</a> waiting for a human donor cornea transplant I.lost 80% of my eyesight when I was in the ICU fighting for my life with Covid..worst thing to ever happen to a creative person losing one&#39;s sight so.PLEASE all of you.look after your eyes with yearly eye checks .<br>I&#39; m laughing ( in a good &amp; kind way btw,:) <br>your video...OMG not sure ( I&#39; m 59 &amp; from Liverpool originally in NW England &amp; it&#39;s fair to say I was very much in the ORIGINAL post punk / goth scene .born in 1967 so I.remember seeing the Sex Pistols on tv as a kid &amp; being in awe..I.STILL listen to them ,Bauhaus &amp; Type O.Negative ..although to be they&#39;re a &#39; new band &#39; Ive still got 1970&#39; s Black.Sabbath on vinyl I.still love <br>) I was laughing looking at the names of bands stencilled on your top because half were either old friends sadly many of us were casualties to the hedonistic excesses ( including myself now its,caught up in me 25 yrs of well enjoying myself 😛) lol I remember I&#39;m Kurt Cobain&#39; s last interview him saying he loved many of the post punk bands that came out of my old hometown of Liverpool &amp; it was great to hear .<br>But on a happy note..watching you is the very embodiment that history really does come round in a circle ..culturally it&#39;s all cyclic..The dying with bleach is called discharge printing &amp; can be very beautiful especially if you can get your hands on a nice length.of cotton velvet curtain ( she&#39;s beautifully ) or an old silk velvet skirt..The secret is open the windows..going in a bathroom with a fan is useless ,personally my lungs are wrecked ( COPD)all the years of smoking pot in my younger days and using heavy chemicals in printmaking.we even used acid on copper lethal fumes &amp; no masks ever even suggested ..crazy .it&#39;s all so much kinder to the health these days I think.our art lecturers were trying to slowly <a href="http://kill.is/">kill.is</a> lol.<br>If ( this is more to younger folks ) don&#39;t have any fabric paint or you&#39;ve only got very thin budget acrylic paint...then if you&#39;re wanting to paint a colourful design on say a cotton t-shirt 👕you can buy really cheap fabric medium ( there&#39;s places that are school suppliers well there is in the UK that sells it cheap ,Schola is a good cheap brand) ..It will turn ANY acrylic into machine washable fabric paint..Also.Again for younger folks,students ( I was a poor student myself from my O&#39; levels to my masters for about 7 yrs ..so.I.KNOW about being a poor art student &amp; going to charity shops &amp; jumble sales) if your acrylic which is incredibly versatile stuff...if it&#39;s thin cheap paint them get a box of cornflour ( think in the US you say cornstarch ??) and just get out the amount you want to use ( a covered little pot or covered with plastic wrap is fine ) mix your thin paint with cornflour..sounds mental but it won&#39;t lighten the colour at all &amp; turns it into heavy.body acrylic..perfect for painting leather .jackets ( I.used to make money £££ for my art stuff painting bespoke biker jackets in the 80&#39; s ) I&#39;ve painted a few great pairs of old Doc Marten&#39; s boots or my fav was to go to an army surplus store ( was called the Army &amp; Navy store over here years ago ) and buy French army boots ( often they were unworn stock ) and I&#39; s spray paint or stencil.psychedelic patterns &amp; natural fairy tale themes like mushrooms 🍄etc...The other thing &amp; this is extreme lok..look in back alleys in huge skips ( dumpsters?) when naughty people dump their own settees out in the road 😡and if they&#39;re made of leather I guarantee the back of the settee you&#39;ll have a huge piece of perfect leather..When nobody is about get a very sharp craft knife &amp; slash the whole back panel out..If it&#39;s a gross colour you can dye it with a bottle of Rit..make it up as normal with hot water just a little stronger mix..I.made some lovely satchel bags ( not sure if you had them ,every English child born in my day 50&#39; s -70&#39; s We all had them for school ) ..Look out in charity ( thrift. ? shops ) for anyone getting rid of a really strong old industrial seeing machine that will easily cope with seeing thick leather ..OR buy yourself a piercing wheel made for adding a row of holes to push your leather needle through ..I.used to make leather bound sketch books ,I&#39;ve always been vegetarian but saw nothing wrong using recycled leather goods instead of them ending up in a landfill dump...ALSO one of your best places for studs,trims is your local shop that sells materials for DIY upholstery ( covering old chairs eff ) you can buy a whole role of studs by the metre,brass,full silver and every day 4 inches is a hole with a screw on stud...dead easy instead of banging on every stud by hand..better for your both household stuff .The other thing is look at discount fabric shops ,old curtains in charity shops is a great source of lots of very cheap fabrics like curtains...always pre-shrink such fabrics in the washing machine in a day 60 degree wash before you say cut out the pieces for a <a href="http://jacket.by/">jacket.By</a> pre-shrinking fabric you&#39;ll save yourself the heartache of wearing clothes once ,washing on a low heat as we all hopefully do for the environment and then finding vintage fabric has shrunk so all your hard work is wasted ..it won&#39;t fit .<br>I taught printmaking &amp; constructed textiles so did a lot of hand feltmaking ..There&#39;s an incredible machine called an electric felting machine..looks <a href="http://exactly.like/">EXACTLY.like</a> a seeing machine but will mean any fabric together to basically create brand new bespoke fabric.The machine cost me about £150 ( maybe 190 dollars ?) and you can use up even tiny scraps of fabric ,scraps of embroidery threads eye and create everything from amazing pillows to my personal fab jewellery! beautiful.wrist cuffs,chokers and brooches that absolutely nobody will have .<br>Sorry to note everyone but <a href="http://i.am/">I.am</a> the walking encyclopedia of creating something out of nothing...I&#39;ve got a few lovely Victorian English oak barley twist legged carved tables ..don&#39;t be afraid to look outside houses that are being renovated &amp; said the bins...maybe ask permission but if it&#39;s dumped in a bin ( look especially for old pictures on canvas you can paint over them &amp; make your own art ) and look for old mirrors &amp; picture frames and use the skills learnt in videos like this &amp; transfer them to upcycle old pieces for your home or bedrooms of you&#39;re young still at home &amp; you&#39;ll have things nobody else will own !<br>I.had to slow your voice down to 0.75 ,my word are you aware how fast your talk.I.couldn&#39;t understand a word <a href="http://lol.at/">lol.at</a> 0.75 I&#39;ve subscribed &amp; enjoying your channel in bed at 2.10 am ..I might be old but I&#39;m still a total nightowl..or vampire who thrived in the dark. lol...Take care lovely seeing young people making things...PLEASE look.up online some of the late great Vivienne Westwoods exhibitions of punk.clothes we&#39;ve had at the Victoria &amp; Albert ( V&amp; A) in London...look at the work too of the amazing Zandra Rhodes who made some of David Bowie&#39; s Ziggy Starducst/ Alladdin Sane early 70&#39; s stage clothes..ALSO for inspiration look. at English horror films I.particularly recommend 1970&#39; s Hammer Horror films ..the women&#39;s clothing is so gorgeous ,all corsets &amp; big bosoms lol.and huge hair..pure goth xx

I know you probably won’t respond to this because this video was papered like a year ago but I figured I’d ask. Your BTVS jacket was so cool! (Buffy is like my favorite thing ever). Where did you find some designs to make stencils for the jacket? Or did you design them yourself?

This video is so epic, thank you! I&#39;m familiar with pretty much all of r techniques, but it&#39;s a really nice refresher for my memory about what to even do again after a long period of housing instability led to me having to really simplify my creative practices and DIY things. I&#39;m in stable housing again now and building things back up and was feeling a bit overwhelmed and this has really helped 🖤🦨

Oh my god!!! This video is everything to me. I am an absolute beginner in all stuff DIY/sewing, but I always enjoyed some cross stiching and crafts in general. Now I wanted to get into alternative style more (not just in fashion aspect might I add), but I felt discouraged seeing pretty things being fast fashion made of plastic or very pricey brands that make beautiful stuff with better materials, based far away from me. So I decided to take up sewing and it’s been going great, I got an old mechanic machine from my grandpa and I am just starting my collection. I haven’t done any project just yet, only learning to sew in a straight line xD This video is going to help me SO SO MUCH!! I feel so inspired and more motivated to actually try to do some project now (instead of watching 8373636 videos of other people crafting and tutorials out of fear of beginning and failing miserably leading to discouragement). And the thing you said about not cutting the pieces of yourself to fit into alt style - this resonated with me as well. I am still exploring and I think mostly alt style may be my thing, but I still like some funny or whimsy elements in my outfit here and there. We will see how it goes c: Anyway, thank you so much, you are amazing, the video is the best I have watched in this topic so far, insta subscribe, greetings from Poland 🫡🩶

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urE44QqcHA&amp;t=1259">20:59</a> you can use water, it won&#39;t be as good and you have to iron it after it&#39;s dried, but it&#39;s good if you have limited recorces<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urE44QqcHA&amp;t=2311">38:31</a> I am literally sewing a skirt waistband while watching this, lol<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urE44QqcHA&amp;t=3707">1:01:47</a> mine doesn&#39;t like me, it has tantrums when I start sewing, and also when I&#39;m half way through😞

im super late to this but this is SO USEFUL! you&#39;ve helped me so much. I&#39;ve been getting into punk fashion and didn&#39;t know where to start and this video was such a save. The hand sewing tutorial was so simple and easy to follow and helped a lot since I wanted to sew a lot of patches. DIYing is so fun and rewarding and I&#39;m so happy I found this video&lt;3

I&#39;m an alt teen but however I am lower class and my parents don&#39;t make much money for us to buy ethical stuff, it makes me feel so horrible buying off shein and I can&#39;t go to thrift stores because the closest one to us is 2 hours away, this is gonna be super helpful as I have a bunch of old clothes that don&#39;t fit me me anymore

oh my god, THAT is a back stiching that would have saved me hours, I do the extra safe paranoid one where you backstich every single time you go through the fabric. You are amazing and I have watched this video like 10 times to really understand it because you should be charging big bucks for this in a patreon, its the whole thing

i have an awful habit of making (what i see as) the coolest shit ever, or having a great idea, but not wearing it at all or not making it. for example, i made this SICK kandi slinky cuff, and i love it and its so pretty (its based on tv girl too!!!) but its just so bothering to wear. aughhh

The sewing section was really helpful! Only thing I wish was different is that bc your camera wasn&#39;t focusing well is that by saying to tie at the top when threading that you meant at, like, at the eye of the needle, but I was able to figure it out by looking it up, so it really wasn&#39;t a big deal! Anyways, I was able to fix a sock I really like using this so thx😊

after hours of trawling for tutorials on basic fabric/wearables DIY skills i once again find that adding the word &quot;punk&quot; to my search terms gives me the most straightforward no-nonsense helpful people in the world. thanks to your super clear advice and explanations, i feel so much less daunted by the thought of altering clothing now. this video is worth its weight in gold, thank you so much

Yeah so I&#39;m a wastelander and I found a way to sew bike tire pieces on my jacket <br><br>So I trim the tire down to where it&#39;s mostly just the tread, then I poke small holes on the side, I make sure to use dental floss so it holds up better when I sew it on something with thick fabric

I’m an alternative auntie and have been crafting for many years, but I still learned some tricks and got lots of inspiration from this video! I’ve been in a style rut lately and now I’m more motivated to hit my closet and piles and see what new things I can make with what I have. Long live DIY!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urE44QqcHA&amp;t=1283">21:23</a> Quick tip but you can absolutely put the tulip or puffy paint etc on a palette and use it with a paint brush or sponge or stamp instead of straight out of the bottle. You get much better results and a lot more range.

It is INCREDIBLY hard to find good alternative clothing for chubby guys here in Denmark so ive wanted to try my hand at doing some DIY and this guide was EXACTLY what I needed to gather the confidence to get started, im still planning what i wanna do and try but I wanna thank you for this incredible guide!!

As someone who is now a bit older and loved to dress very alternative in their &quot;youth&quot;, I want to thank you for this video. I love how accessible knowledge and materials are now. 20 years ago it was way harder to be creative like that and alternative clothes were so expensive and came only in a certain size. It always makes me smile to see People still dressing awesome. 😁🖤

THANK YOU, this is great! I really want alt clothes but all the good alt clothing store in my country re sell from shein or other fast fashion brands :&#39;( , so I decided to js diy clothes since that would be much more ethical. Thank you for making this tutorial!!!!💜

Only just found your channel… lots of fun watching you…<br>I relate so much to your personalization of…<br>I see myself 40 some years ago going through old clothes at home to make them Mine!!!<br>Still do by the way but in a more subtle way this days so I feel like myself but can still look professional when working 😊<br>Thank you for the trip in my past and present 💝

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urE44QqcHA&amp;t=2187">36:27</a> fun fact! if you look up a &quot;running backstitch,&quot; it achieves more or less the same thing without needing to knot your thread as often. more secure than a running stitch, but with more flexibility than a backstitch &lt;3

This is probably the most helpful video on all of the internet. Just from this video alone I can tell you are a magnificent, beautiful, gracious dark angel sent to do the lord&#39;s work on this hellsite. if you ever need anything, me and my homies got u, queen <a href="UCkszU2WH9gy1mb0dV-11UJg/hands-yellow-heart-red"></a>

Trying not to be that person, genuinely asking, is there any substitute for thrifting. There’s not many thrifts where I live, like 3 or even less and they’re in bad areas. I’m South African btw. Want to try to avoid using Temu and Shein. Just want genuine advice. :)

Love your content! Tip for dying things: Dharma trading company sells all sorts of dyes. But even better they are extremely happy to help you be successful with your project. Think of them as a reference library for your dying projects. Also pro tip: a lot of times you need to double the amount of dye you use to get a nice deep black or other dark colors. So check the fine print.

Im a year late but I&#39;m looking into reworking my clothes and was just wondering if the screen printing ink washes off when you wash the clothes? <br><br>(I love your creations btw the buffy jacket was so cool, you have so much talent its insane 💕)

Came here while looking for some ideas of stuff I could add to a crossbody bag I just made, and I really like the whole thing with all the useful tips :)<br><br>One thing I want to add to machine sewing: You can get cheap painters tape and just use it to tape down layers of fabric where you want to sew them. Then just sew over the tape (which is also really easy to draw on, so you can mark your lines), and after the seam is done you can pull off the tape and rip it apart right at the seam. Usually it comes out pretty nice, and if small pieces are left you can just use tweezers to remove it :)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urE44QqcHA&amp;t=3427">57:07</a> Instead of moving the fabric machines usually have a reverse button. So you sew a few steps forward, then back, and than you just go forward up to the end. Most likely it&#39;s the large thing on the right side of your machine underneath the stitch patterns you have to push down.<br><br>For printing on fabric, I really like lino printing! You don&#39;t even need the lino block, you can use basically everything as a stamp. Me and my best friend even used potatos once, worked like a charm!

This video is nothing short of a godsend. I&#39;ve been wanting to get into crafts and DIYing for months now, but I&#39;ve been totally frozen by all of the different things to try out. I think I&#39;m going to be able to break out of that by making a stencil with that method of yours and attaching it to something cool. Might be the start of my own battle jacket or something. Regardless, I&#39;m truly inspired and I am So Excited! Thank you so much

this is not really a tip but if you absolutely hate embroidery floss (i have sensory issues with it and i just hate using it), you can just sew in the same place a couple of times over. Also sewing thread is often way cheaper (and you get way more per item). <br>if you want to stop your piece from freying out, you can do a blanket stitch all around the piece. There are a lot of designs you can work with. It also helps if your fabic is flimsy and falls apart easily and you want the piece to hold up.