#mending jeans

[im-da-bronx]

I’m so genuinely frustrated

I have a pair of jeans that I’m trying to fix, but they just keep ripping.

I finally figured out how to repair them while maintaining the stretch in the fabric, and as I was putting my embroidery hoop on to start fixing them, I ripped ANOTHER HOLE.

And this is after I patched the other leg, and immediately ripped a new hole underneath the new patch

What do I do? Do I continue to patch these pants? Or is it time to give up and buy a new pair?

Here’s a pic of the first patch I did, and the rip that formed underneath

[janerhoadesart]

Itty bitty sashiko patch 💕

Also, a note: I offer a visible mending service for your clothing. Contact me for details or check out my website for prices! I can patch holes in just about any garment and make it look CUTE.

[babajeza]

Reparieren macht Freude – A Sunday Afternoon Later

Hier siehst du Flickmaterial aus meinem Fundus, das einmal mehr gute Dienste leistet. Trotzdem habe ich den roten Rest nicht verwendet, um zwei Paar Hosen eines Freundes zu reparieren. Diese Anzahl macht noch Freude. It took me a few leftover fabrics (from old jeans), pins, a pair of scisors and of cours my sewing machine to mend two pairs of jeans from a friend. I’m thankful for my skills and…

[swallowsummer]

I love how sashiko patterns grow.

Before, I’ve patched on the inside, but with jeans I’ve found that they can become a little too tight after multiple patches. Besides, I really like how the fraying edge of the patch adds to the effect.

[discardedtower]

My attempt to draw them as children !

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[mendelmakes]

Mending a rather obvious rip in the butt of my dad's jeans, so I'm embroidering a dad joke on the pocket to make ironic

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Eddie obviously knows how to sew (hes not only dirt-poor living off of a single consistent paycheck and whatever he earns selling drugs, but hes also a punk- theres no way he DOESNT know how to sew), but steve most definitely does. not. one of his shirts get a hole and he throws it out.

When eddie first witnesses this, hes fucking MORTIFIED and ends up digging a t-shirt out of the trash and sewing the hole closed and fixing the loose stitching on the hem and gives steve a lecture about not wasting fabric and money.

And from then on, steve just shows up at the munson household every now and then with various clothes in his arms, asking eddie to fix them for him.

[things-from-strings]

🌾🌾🌾

[rhysintherain]

Almost done fixing the jeans they cut up at the ER last summer.

All told, it'll be about 36 square inches stitched over. There's a strip of navy blue 11-count aida backing it for structure. Using 2 strands of bright green and 1 strand of dark green for the color

Once this is done, I have a couple hoodies to do: my tsunami warning hoodie that Pixie chewed on is getting blue Wave patterns along the cuffs and hem in a couple places. My red Burton hoodie is getting orange and yellow flames around the worn out cuffs.

[cat-mermaid]

did some new stuff to this pair the other day, probably won't do much more since I'm pretty happy with them

[jensownzoo]

Just some quick mending of a small tension hole at the top corner of a rear pocket in a pair of jeans. Drew a heart with marker then did a simple satin stitch over it. Had to do a few extra layers in the middle to keep the ridge of the seam from poking through, but I think it came out well and took maybe 10 minutes?

[a-strawberry-mouse]

That's 4 shades of yellow!

The closer the stitches, the more damaged the fabric. The farther apart the stitches, the less damaged the fabric.

Pleasant, pleasant to look at!

Heck, once I'm done I may casually add stitches to this as a slow stitching project.

Jeans guy asked if I would make this a Theseus ship.

Honestly?

That is a goal for me. To repair things so much that there's little to nothing left of the original. Making it both the old object and an entirely new object! I'm pretty happy that my vibes match my goals.

[rathenarts]

Experiments in mending: patched and reinforced the inner thighs on an old pair of jeans. I'm really interested to see how long this repair will last before it wears through like the original denim did, because I see scores of posts on social media about how to mend your jeans like this but I don't think I've ever seen anyone report back on how durable this type of repair work really is. So, for documentation purposes: this is denim underpatches and black DMC Petra cotton in size 3, repair completed 18/1/2025, and I will be coming back to this post to report on how well it all holds up...

[lapdogchase]

i do not trust people who shop at shein i'm sorry like there's no excuse for it. i can understand amazon, i can understand a lot of fast fashion, but shein is uniquely awful. and their clothes fall apart in a week so you can't even keep them and mend them. "but i'm poor" okay and you don't need to buy from shein about it. "they sell shirts for $3" so does michael's check ur local craft store and make a design urself if u want. you cannot seriously tell me that you had no other option other than shein