you're watching last minute laure hey why don't you subscribe I put out new videos every Tuesday and Thursday hey guys today I'm gonna show you how to mend the worn-out crotch on your jeans just like this for this project you're going to need some jeans you're going to need some denim scraps to use for patches you'll need sharp scissors embroidery floss sewing needles and a thimble and maybe an embroidery hoop and everything that I use in this video obviously will be linked in the description below so first thing I did was find some denim that matched the jeans I wanted to repair once I did that got everything else out of the way and just so you know it doesn't really matter if the denim matches because the patch you use underneath won't end up showing first thing I did was decided how I wanted to mend these jeans and I decided I wanted to cut out two sort of Halfmoon shapes to get rid of the worn-out area but first I wanted to just quickly sort of mend that hole that hole that was there so I'm gonna start by trimming away the loose threads and just doing a really really simple stitch to - so that hole together this is not for like structural integrity or anything it's just so that I can see the shape of the fabric and to kind of begin the process of mending it's this is not the mend so once I get all that sort of stitched together really simply nothing fancy next thing that I'm going to do is cut out those Halfmoon shapes that I showed in the beginning I'm using my embroidery hoop to trace that circular shape in order to guarantee that it's like a lot nicer than what I would do just by eye and I'm using chalk just to to outline that so that I can follow a line make it a little bit straighter I'm just gonna trim those guys out and after I trim them I'm going to trace over them with an about an extra inch around the outside of the denim I've decided to use as the patch also in case you didn't know I put out new videos every Tuesday and Thursday on this channel right now they're a little bit heavy in mending and embroidery because I'm back into loving mending and embroidery but I do have lots of crochet tutorials I have lots of sewing and lots of making videos so if you like to make stuff definitely check out the channel and subscribe cuz I do put out new videos all the time ok so now we've got our patches done I'm positioning the I'm gonna call it the wounded denim so that's the old denim and positioning it on top of the fresh denim and I'm drawing some vertical lines to follow along with with my embroidery stitches in pinning the fabric just to make sure it doesn't move and then I'm going to do some straight stitches just straight across nothing fancy up and down up and down just weave through the fabric and I'm going to do all of those vertical lines with that stitch trying to keep those stitches fairly close together and I picked a contrasting thread because I thought it was kind of cute but you could pick something that matches really closely and then you wouldn't see this nearly as much as you will on mine at the end however my partner does not need subtlety in his wardrobe he likes when I kind of make it crazy so he enjoyed the contrasting thread but if you're trying to make it like a subtle repair then I would say pick a thread that matches the denim as best you can after the vertical lines I drew out some horizontal lines to follow along just so that there's a bit of a crosshatch pattern so there's more security between those two patches you could also use a sewing machine for this honestly you you could it's really simple you could and do the exact same thing vertical lines and horizontal lines that would probably create a more subtle appearance but again I like the kind of handmade aspect of repairing with embroidery floss and the sort of sachiko style embroidery mending I like it a lot so that's what I'm up to right now but you could definitely do this in a couple of other ways you don't need to use embroidery floss and you don't need to do it by hand but if you want to do it by hand then this is definitely a cool way that adds a lot of structure a lot of stability and totally repairs your problem without having to buy a whole new pair of jeans after my partner saw these once it was done he decided he wanted the knees redone on his jeans and he wanted to add some patches on his other pairs of jeans he was super into it so you'd might be surprised thinking that you're just doing a mend and then you find out that you actually have a huge project ahead of you because it turned out way cooler than you thought so after I finished those horizontal lines which I'm just getting through here I'm going to be repositioning these patches back in the original jeans the cool thing about using the original denim even though it's wounded on top of the patch is that you end up not having any color contrast between the two denims because the only denim that shows once you install it back into the jeans is going to be the original denim there's not going to be any of that patch visible so there we go all finished and I ended up leaving that little mended area because I thought it looks cute kind of like a scarecrow or something and now I'm gonna place those back into the jeans which at this point are like a weird assless chap cowboy song sort of thing and then you can see now that that patch that's behind the wounded denim isn't even visible just the sort of cross work embroidery is so I switched to some goo Turman cotton thread because I like it and it's strong and I used two strands of that thread and did a whip stitch attaching the wounded denim only the original jeans so at this point the patch is not not in play at all the the patch behind that wounded piece so I'm just reattach the old denim to the jeans no special stitching just a web stitch all the way around and then once I attached the jeans sorry the patches on both sides I'm going to be switching to some black embroidery floss but first I'm just gonna whip all the way around just connecting the patch back to the jeans so you can see there you can see those little black stitches and now I am going to just pin the patch to the denim so that I don't get any puckering or anything any folds where accidentally sew through the wrong thing now I'm using embroidery floss and I'm using two strands of DMC black embroidery floss and I'm just going to do the same stitch I used on the patch but now I'm doing it in black you could use the same color that you used it doesn't matter it's completely up to you at this point and then I'm gonna go around that patch two different times on all sides it can get a little bit difficult when you're going through the seam so just do what you can okay so there is the first bit so this looks close to done but we have to flip it inside out and fix up the inside so I use some gold embroidery floss that matched the pockets of the jeans um just to kind of try and have some continuity on the inside making it look a little bit more finished then I folded all the raw edges that were left folded them under and then using a whip stitch I connected the seam to the patch I'm not sewing through the denim at this point I'm only sewing through the seam on the inner side inner crotch of the denim and through the patch this is hiding all the raw edges preventing fraying for the future but it's also making it look more finished and more purposeful my whole goal with all of these mending projects it's not for it to be perfect it's to look like it's on purpose so it's okay if it's rough it's okay if you use weird colors as long as it looks like that's what you wanted in the project then I feel like it's a success so I matched the gold as best as I could I figured it made it a little bit a little bit I don't know more purposeful looking and then I send out the coroner there just so I wouldn't have a big lump with some bulk when I was doing the round edges I switched a little bit I used a blanket stitch for the embroidery and I just folded the raw edge under and then did a blanket stitch I didn't attach this part at this point so I didn't want to attach it here with the gold because I would have to go through the actual leg of the denim and then you would see the gold thread on the other side of the jeans and you don't want that you want the denim from the outside to look like a regular pair of jeans so after I did this blanket stitch all the way around I switched back to the black goo Turman thread and I'll show you that in just a second I'm just gonna show you here how now that raw edge is hidden but it's not flat it kind of jumps up a little bit and it's not perfectly fat and that's what we don't want so then I took my black goo turban thread and I was doing the same style whip stitch that I was doing on the other parts of the denim with the gold but instead of going through the entire jeans I was just going through two or three threads on the inside of the jeans on the wrong side of the denim so that way the tacking down that I'm doing here to keep that patch flat isn't gonna show on the other side because it wouldn't look cute so you can see how much flatter those decide where I've tacked down is now it almost looks like it's the same colors as the original denim it looks much more finished much more pretty and it's going to help with long term wear and the longevity of the patch because it's not going to be rubbing against or moving it's tacked down right to the end so you can see they're just teeny little bit of the denim and I'm going all the way around with that and then I will tie it off and I'm not gonna lie to you guys that's it that's the whole thing I'm gonna show you what it looks like inside out so that your right side in I should say so you can see how the patches after it goes through the wash all that puckering goes away and trim up the threads that you want trimmed obviously leave what you want left but that's it easy-peasy the jeans are mended they look similar to how they did before but in my opinion a little bit cooler and it's an easy fix to a problem that I don't know anybody who's got the thunder thighs will relate to let me know in the comments if you've ever had to replace your jeans or if you'd like to now that you know how and thank you guys so much for watching I put up videos every Tuesday and Thursday so we'll see you in the next one bye