Monte got a tear in his jeans.
He asked me to mend them. I was only happy to oblige.
It’s a fairly big tear, about 7cm. I ironed some double sided interfacing onto the wrong side of a pretty floral patch of fabric. Then I peeled off the backing paper and ironed the patch onto the inside of the jeans (this is where MG heaved a sigh of relief!).
That is why appliqué is so easy. If I was decorating an item with appliqué, that is how i’d do it, more or less. I’d then stitch around the edges in a decorative way.
Anyway, I dusted off my sewing machine, threaded it with too-dark navy cotton, and set it to a wide, closely-spaced zig-zag stitch. I ran zig-zag stitches over the tear and the hole.
It’s not bad. I’d say it’s not perfect. However, it’s a damn sight less expensive than buying a new pair of jeans.
And he has a piece of one of my favourite fabrics close to his flesh to remind him of me.
Have a good weekend. Perhaps try to save something from the waste pile by doing some mending!
view of the sunrise from Fangorn farm
Hi Rachel. It was the bum that needed patching. There’s nothing special about my machine but it does have a removable arm thing that I pretty much always have removed. You could maybe bunch up the leg of the pants and sew by machine but it could be easier to mend by hand. It’d probably be neater and more accurate too. I’m no expert on darning though. Let me know how you get on! X
So, you need a machine with an arm for this sort of mending, right? Assuming it was the leg that had a hole. My hubby has about 6 pairs of pants waiting for patches but my machine doesn’t have an arm so I’m at a bit of a loss. Maybe shorts?! :)