Last week, I clumsily fell + ripped a hole in my favorite pair of jeans. I’ve patched jeans before with iron on patches, which work great. For this hole + for my favorite jeans, I wanted a patch that was a little less noticeable.
I started by ironing the tear. I ironed all of the threads towards the rip.
I then took a small embroidery hoop + stretched the area taught.
Here is a (very poor) illustration of the basic idea of what I did. I started by stitching vertically across the whole tear. Then I horizontally, I weaved in + out of the vertical stitches.
I repeated this about three times, until I was satisfied with the strength of the patch.
It’s true, you can defiantly see the patch, but luckily this area is right under my knee + is less noticeable. I’ve since worn these jeans + even washed them + the patch held just fine.
How do you patch your jeans?
When you use the right colored thread you can hardly tell there's a patch there. Although I admit - I've patched a pair of my pants (a rather large area covering the entire knee) with gold metallic thread. I feel a bit like Michael Jackson whenever I wear them ;)
I used this exact technique--except after it was done I used a few drops of Fray Check. It's a little bottle of liquid that stops fabric from fraying, especially great for ribbons, but it also reinforces patches like these! The patch job held for the life of the jeans. Yay!
Now , thanks to you, I can get to patching!
You're so smart!!! LOL No really...you are!
xo
Jill
in high school i had the *perfect* pair of jeans, but i wore them so often they had a million holes in them by the end of summer. i patched them with bright pink fabric and embroidery floss. it took for.ev.er. to get all the holes and worn out spots up to par - but once they were done i wore them all the way through senior year! i only wish i'd saved them after the freshman 15 hit me in college. i'd probably still be wearing them!
I'm still traumatised that my favourite pair of jeans seems to be on the verge of falling apart when there is nothing in the stores to replace them. I'm wearing bell-bottoms right now, as that was the best I could find. I'm feeling far too self-conscious in them, though.
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thanks to share
William Turner
Leather Pants