Velcro for shirt patches to change patches on the fly?

[TheLovejoy]

This could be a terrible idea, and it might actually be much cheaper, cost effective, easier to just purchase a new shirt and iron/sew the patch, but....hear me out anyways...

I'm interested in getting velcro iron-ons for the sleeve of my shirt, where I can put the reverse sticky side on the under-side of the iron on patches. So when I go to different organizations, I just pull the patch off, and stick the other org patch on it. Thought?

i.e. I do some traveling, and work in 5/6 different organizations in different states. I do some in Colorado when my boys traveling team goes down there between his games, Wyoming, SD, NE, and MN. The SD people are hardcore about having their patch on the shirt, but I don't want to wear that patch in MN/NE, so, it would be nice to just remove it, and put on a different orgs patch. See what I'm saying?

[MattKirky]

Velcro for patches is a BIG thing in the hockey referee community and it works beautifully. No reason why it shouldn't work for baseball too?

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[umpstu]

I use the cardboard from a cereal box and some magnets.

[834k3r]

1 hour ago, MattKirky said:

Velcro for patches is a BIG thing in the hockey referee community and it works beautifully. No reason why it shouldn't work for baseball too?

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Soccer, too.

[DerekGDS]

It's pretty common in soccer as well. A heat applied velcro patch is added to the shirt and then you can just swap out velcro patches as needed. We've considered offering this the biggest problem is everyone association has a different shape, size, uniform regulations and honestly it seems like a bit of a nightmare.

[TheLovejoy]

1 hour ago, umpstu said:

I use the cardboard from a cereal box and some magnets.

I'm not sure if you're serious or not, because your reply made me chuckle more than I'd like to admit. I think the MacGyver aspect of it caught me off guard. 
However, I've been looking at small rectangle/circular magnets online, and was trying to find something to glue them to, and cereal box cardboard to the back of the patch would do the trick....

They wouldn't have to be placed on the shirt at all. Just put two small magnets under it, and place the patch with the magnets glued to it on the other side, and it would hold if the magnets were strong enough...

The velcro idea seemed the way to go, so long as you have a couple central pieces of velcro that would be adaptable to other associations patches. Magnets on every new patch could get expensive too....hmmm

[SeeingEyeDog]

@TheLovejoy, do a search for neodymium magnets. I seem to recall a similar discussion here and someone mentioned the use of these small, yet very powerful magnets to swap out patches. The advantage of the magnets is that if you just want to wear the shirt plain with no patches, the removal of the magnets gives a cleaner look overall. 100 runs $10 on Amazon...

~Dawg

 

[umpstu]

4 hours ago, TheLovejoy said:

I'm not sure if you're serious or not, because your reply made me chuckle more than I'd like to admit. I think the MacGyver aspect of it caught me off guard. 
However, I've been looking at small rectangle/circular magnets online, and was trying to find something to glue them to, and cereal box cardboard to the back of the patch would do the trick....

They wouldn't have to be placed on the shirt at all. Just put two small magnets under it, and place the patch with the magnets glued to it on the other side, and it would hold if the magnets were strong enough...

The velcro idea seemed the way to go, so long as you have a couple central pieces of velcro that would be adaptable to other associations patches. Magnets on every new patch could get expensive too....hmmm

Was serious and probably should have explained. But what you are saying is how to do it. Using the cereal box works well. Just the right thickness, yet light. And never had a patch slip using this method. I bought my magnets at Hobby Lobby and they came with a bunch in the package.

[Razzer]

two words

ALIEN TAPE

[kylehutson]

I used to use magnets, but I've switched to https://www.patchlatch.com/ (won't work for the sleeve, but if you can get away with the pocket instead)