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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
#visible mending#mending#jeans#repairing clothes#mending clothes#mending jeans#fiber arts#embroidery#sashiko
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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.
#sashiko mend#sashiko patch#diy mending#mended clothing#mending project#visible mending#mending#mending jeans#denver colorado#garment repair#clothing repair
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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…
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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
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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.
#jean bag#jeans#denim#upcycle#upcycling#mending#visible mending#slow stitching#hand stitching#sewing#repair#embroidery#wip#ecofriendly#hopepunk
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me: wow where have all my evenings gone lately 🤔
also me: it has been 382 days since i started working on the Yarneater3000, and it is so far from over
i am slowly encasing every seam and disintegrating edge of those jeans (so. most of it eventually) using every possible colour of embroidery floss, and it's been really fun !
#embroidery#visible mending#olorea talks#i'm getting better as i sew along but truly it's been a learning curve hahaha friendship restored with the thimble !!! saving my fingers !!#my goal is to make these shitty jeans last way longer than anyone could have guessed by slowly absorbing them in a mass of embroidery floss#alhamdullilah they will be darned !!!#i've also had other projects in between. this was not every evening for a year+ and i will soon be able to share... sunhat...... heehee#txt#img
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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
#text#i UNDERSTSAND a lot of companies dont stock larger sizes i UNDERSTAND that its super fucking cheap#but there are other options . thrift store for instance. the goodwill i worked at sold jeans for $7 a pair#and shirts for $3/5 at the lowest depending on if they had a side seam#theres also borrowing from ur friends. u can ask a homeless shelter if u need/if u r eligible to. there's diy there's mending#there are other fast fashion stores that are much less harmful (despite still being immensely harmful of course)#like there are other options. i prommy#sorry im on a fast fashion hating kick rn ive been thinking abt it for 3 days straight
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hello! need help learning how to do a thing and it's your area of expertise so im squirrelling into your ask box (dad joke, sorry.) ANYWAY
i have a lot of jeans that i really really like. however, my most worn jeans tend to, uh. rip in the seat after some time. either near the ass, or at the crotch. this is super irritating, and i don't like tossing the jeans just because of that but i have no idea how to fix them or what to do about this.
i vaguely remember you posting on here about jeans wear and tear as well. sorry if im asking you something that you have already answered, but just wanted to know - what's a good way of mending jeans ripped in the crotch area?
better yet, how do i reinforce my jeans that are showing the warning signs of ripping at the crotch?
My jeans literally just ripped a couple days ago and ive been wearing sweatpants to work out if laziness, so you have good timing 🐿
There might be many ways to do this (and there's definitely NEATER ways to do this) but here's how I fix mine:
They just sort of wore right through. Luckily I was able to catch it before they started ripping too. The sooner you catch a hole the better--and noticing before it rips is best.
You will need a sewing needle (for jeans I like the shortest sharpest needle with a small eye but use whatever needle is comfortable), scissors, a strip of scrap fabric, and some thread. Ideally thread in the same color as your jeans, but I'm using one that will stand out so you can see the repair. Also, nobody will see this later so it doesn't really matter. Pins will also help keep things neat but aren't strictly necessary.
The strip of fabric should be big enough to cover the entire area that wears out, doubled over, on this leg. You can of course just patch the hole, but then you'll grow a new hole a centimeter to the left, so its less work to just do this now.
For preventative measures (sewing a patch on before there is a hole) the process is exactly the same. Just patch the area you know will wear out.
Step 1: turn the pants inside out. fold your patch and pin it in place. We want a doubled patch because a single layer might wear through as well. If you don't have pins, you can use a spare needle or just set it over the repair site.
Like so. If you want these to look nice, keep everything neat and straight. I just want these mended and don't care how it looks one iota, so mine will be messy.
Step 2: thread your needle with doubled thread. A single thread can and probably will wear through here.
Step 3: put your non dominant hand down the leg you're fixing. Your hand should be under the patch supporting while you sew. If you have an embroidery hoop or something leg-sized to put there to hold things taut, that's even better.
Step 4: start sewing the patch down. First we just want to secure it before we do any reinforcing. You could use any stitch here ( whipstitch would probably be good, backstitch is good as well) but I just use a simple running stitch. Go around the entire patch, removing pins if present as you go. Keep your stitches loose here, or at least not tight.
Step 5: reinforcing ! This part can be done on either side, and the front is going to look way neater than the back. If this is in matching thread I'd go ahead and work on the inside because the messy outside won't be seen. If it's contrasting thread you may want to work on the outside, so that at least you have a good pattern. I don't care either way, so I'll work on the inside as it's a little easier. Like I said, this repair really won't be seen when wearing the pants, so the aesthetics aren't very important imo.
To reinforce, I will stitch plus signs/x's over the entire patch. You can do them one at a time or sew all the horizontal lines, then sew vertically to intersect. It's up to you, I like doing them one at a time though.
Yes, they're very bad. Yes this will still extend the life of these pants several months at least. Yes it would be even more effective if I took the time to be neater.
On top on the right image is the patch I did on the other side when they started shredding 5 or 6 months ago. The fabric on the front is only just now starting to fail again, so they will need another round of mending. I will probably extend the patch down the leg a little but mostly just sew more. When you add a layer of thread over fabric, now you have to wear through all of the thread before you start wearing down the fabric again. That's largely how these patches work.
A much much neater and more aesthetic form of this basic idea is sashiko sewing. It's a great way to mend things like jeans (I just don't care about my jeans being anything other than usable so I save my effort and creativity for where I will enjoy it).
Here's the front. I highly doubt anyone will ever see the yellow but I sharpied it black (can also do blue on most shades of blue jeans) and now it stands out less.
One last thing--if, when you look at the front again, you see there are some damaged areas standing proud, sew over those until they have compacted back down and are smooth again. This is important--whatever stands the highest will wear first. So your repairs should be sitting on top, standing higher than the damaged fabric. Otherwise this is all for naught.
Some tips:
A canvas fabric is better. Go for something thick and with some weight to it if you can--immobilizing the repair site will also help some with how long the repair will last.
Similarly colored thread will render this almost invisible. Almost invisible means hard to work on... so make sure your patch is a different color so you're not mending like black thread on black fabric. Save your eyes.
Smaller stitches are better if you have the time/coordination. Large stitches can snag in the wash and also aren't as effective here.
That said, chicken scratch looking garbage will absolutely still make your pants wearable again, as you can see.
If the physical act of moving the needle is going terribly, it's because it's the wrong needle for the job. For jeans, you want a short needle as thin as possible with a small eye. I switched halfway thru this mend because I found a better needle and it was way easier after that.
That's all I got, good luck with your pants ! I usually can double or triple my jeans life this way
#there are absolutely better/neater tutorials out there but i hope this gets the point across#lmk if you have any questions#mending#jeans repair#sewing
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Tried my hand at some visible mending!
#sashiko#embroidery#visible mending#patchwork#its not good sashiko#but i wanted to try it#and these are my favorite jeans#and i want to keep wearing them to work#so yeah this happened
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Another jeans repair, this one for my husband's jeans. If I was doing it again, I would zigzag round the edges of the patches separately before attaching as the zigzag on the jeans is quite strong. My husband said he liked it though- I think the symmetry helps.
Reminder than cotton is one of the most water and agricultural chemical hungry crops on the planet, and producing a single pair of jeans takes nearly 8000 litres of fresh water, plus a lot of human labour. So every little bit helps.
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When I visited Kyoto in April, I made sure to stop by the textile supply stores to bulk up on sashiko thread and needles. Whenever I sew or crochet I think about my grandma and how I need to save all my money to go see her. (*´ー`*)
I miss you かずこちゃん ❤️
#sashiko#mending#denim jeans#denim shorts#denim#blue jeans#jeans#jean shorts#sewing#threads#needlework#girl blog aesthetic#girl blogger#nyc girl#artists on tumblr
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started with fixing my favourite jacket.
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Baphomet by Jean Osipyan (2011)
Source: http://www.sketchoholic.com/Jeanosipyan/images/17774/baphomet
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