Gotta a Hole in One?

First of all,

let me apologize

to the

person

who commented on my other posting of this tutorial.

I have had to go in

and redo the whole thing

because blogger

is acting stupid

and wouldn't

let me do any edits.

I loved your comment

and feel bad for having to delete it.

I realized that

jeans with holes in them

are a bit of a fashion

statement

these days.

However,

I was raised in a time

when one ironed their

blue jeans.

So, jeans with holes in them

kind of

go against my

grain.

(no pun intended)

I raised 4 boys.

Hand-me-downs were

just a way of life

when it came to blue jeans.

So patches were

common.

It was a part of

clothing

my family

without going broke.

Here's how I have always done it.

Try not to let your holes get too big.

However, I have patched worse and they've turned out okay.

You will need a piece of fabric large enough to fit under the hole

as a base for your repair.

I have a stack of these cut from

a

sacrificial

pair of jeans too far gone to fix.

Take your seam ripper and open the

leg seam that is not double stitched.

Sometimes this is on the outside, sometimes the inside.

This allows you to get in

the pant leg on the machine.

Pin the patch fabric to the inside underneath

the area to be fixed.

Set your machine at a wide zig-zag stitch.

Find a coordinating thread in your thread box.

This is a great place to use up

all those odd bobbin colors that

you have.

Start stitching.

Work back and forth using your reverse button

to take the stitches backwards.

Keep going until you have covered the entire hole.

Quickly zig-zag around the area in a square

to clean things up a bit.

Begin stitching the opposite way, filling in the square.

Trim the backing fabric back a bit and sew up the pant leg again.

Done!

 Here is a pocket that I patched on that same pair of jeans.

I had to take the pocket completely off

and sew it back on again,

but it looks great.

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