Holy jeans of fire Batman!

Today I am attempting to fix a pair of very holey jeans for my friend.

I am nervous about this for two reasons, one they belong to a very good friend of mine and I don't want to fuck up his favourite pair of jeans, and I am not totally confident about being to get the sewing machine around the whole of the hole. (if you get me?) After researching and using common sense I am pretty sure I know what to do!

First of all I have cut the loose threads and fluffy bits away from the holes because they will get caught up in your machine and make angry scary noises and break it. Which is never good. Now I am going to cut the fabric to size for one of the holes. (Note he chose the fabric not me!) I am going to cut the fabric too big for the hole and then trim and double sew it down (that is what has been done to a hole already patched on them). On one video on youtube they said to cut the fabric diagonally to give the fabric some stretch if it doesn't have it originally. I am going to do this as I am using cotton not denim. (Not going to lie, because they are big bulky jeans and the patches are down the leg even the pinning was proving difficult. This does not bode well!)

 Ok so the first patch didn't go so well. After pinning I machine sewed from the front to see where I was going but the patch material doesn't hang straight so I am not happy with the finish.

pinned patch

patch machine sewed 

finished patch from front

So for the others I decided to pin and then tack around it and then sew from the back. This way I could keep the patch material straight and follow the tack line to know where the edge is.

Second patch tacked

The second one worked much better, but the third one, the biggest hole, again didn't work that well! Decided to leave it to see what my friend thinks and then if he agrees it is crap I may re-do and pin it whilst he is wearing them to get the way the fabric hangs right. Or at least attempt to!


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second patch finished - still scruffy round the edged though.

 The third patch was bigger and so more difficult, but managed to get it done eventually. These are the finished result. Do like how the material shows through, a good choice by my friend I think. So that is how I patched jeans!