Hi this is Needlepointers.com and today I'd
like to show you how to patch holes in some pairs of pants or jeans. I'd like it to show you a
couple of mending techniques that I've used in the past to patch up these kind of pants in
order to make them wearable again. The first is this type. What I've done here, and I did this a
couple years ago, and it has worn nicely. He's been wearing these pants so it's holding up. And what
I did was I put a iron-on patch on the back and then I used my darning stitch across from
my sewing machine and put lines of stitching up and down to hold it down. So I'll take you through
the steps of how I'm going to mend these pants. The first thing I usually do is we have all these threads and
we want to have a clean clean edges on the edges of our area we're patching. And I don't want all
this frayed stuff because it will be hard to get the HeatnBond to stick properly and
to hold it all down. So I want to clean this up. Alright so there's the area all cleaned
up. All the little stragglers are cut off. The old pair of cutoff jeans of mine that I'm not wearing
anymore and I save for projects. So I am going to then cut a piece of fabric from these jeans
and I want to cut it bigger, a good size bigger, than the actual. So I've cut out the piece
that's a good size bigger than the actual hole and then I've also cut
out a piece of the fusing HeatnBond. So I'm going to put this on here and I'm
going to fuse this down. I'll be right back. So I've used the HeatnBond. Now I'm going to
get the backing paper off using a pin to score it makes it come off much easier.
And then now we're going to iron this. Okay, so here's my extra piece of fabric and
I will just insert that into the pant leg. You don't want to fuse the front of the pant
to the patch to the back of the pants. So now I want to lay my patch over and I'm actually
going to put the grain of the patch fabric the same, pretty much the same direction as the grain
of the actual fabric in the pants just to match it up a little bit. And then you use the fusing
technique using the amount that the HeatnBond says that you're using or whatever you're using
for your bonding and it's usually about 10 to 15 seconds. With this it could be a little bit
longer because being that it's the jeans fabric it's pretty thick. So now we're going to go to the
sewing machine and we're going to sew around this. And then I'm using the armhole area so that I can
push the jeans on. So I can because otherwise you can't sew this far up a pair of jeans without
catching the back of the leg. I think for this one again I'm just going to use a zig-zag stitch
instead of using my darning stitch. I used a darning stitch on that other one because it was
such a small hole and I was able to darn across the whole thing. I'm going to set my length
a little shorter so that it's closer together. I'm just sewing so that part of the
stitch goes over this the one side off of the edge of the patch and the
other side is going on to the patch. Okay, so I have I'm going to go I went around
this side this side of the circle and I'm going to now go around the other side
of the circle. I go in the other direction. There we go. We have the patch all sewn down and
it should stay pretty well. So for the last pair of pants that I have here, I have this pair of
pants which is a similar color which I'm going to use this one to, these are jeans though, and these
are more of a heavy docker. I'm going to try using this material to patch. And I'm going to use the
same techniques that I used for these jeans that we just did. So I'll be back in a little bit
after I've done that. Okay, so here's the last one patched up. And you can see I just zig-zagged around
the outside on that one. Thank you for watching our video. If you've enjoyed this video, please press
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