#weaving mend

So I reinforced by copying the pattern with embroidery. Obviously my color matching isn’t great but it will be fine. I didn’t buy anything to match color, I just used embroidery floss I already had in my stash.

These jeans belong to my sister who is a farrier and all around farm gal so she is very tough on her pants. These in particular had a run in with an overweight Boer nanny goat while we were trimming their hooves.

Used a bunch of large basting/sashiko type stitches to hold the patch in place then flipped it over and stitched around the raw edges.

There was also a small hole a little farther down the leg that I patched the same way.

And one on the booty that I kind of wove over the hole and added a bunch of reinforcement stitching to make sure it was secure.

And these are the overall results. These jeans live on to battle another goat.

Here’s the products I used on these for anyone that wishes to check them out.

Embroidery thread.

Needles.

This was one of my first blue Jean mends. It wasn’t a really big hole but it was right on the inside seam so I wanted to fix it well.

I was experimenting with a woven type of patch and it worked pretty well but it was so dang tedious. I was using thin thread AND a really tight weaving pattern. I really screwed my eyes over in this mend because I had to use a magnifying glass light (like this one) to even finish.

Lesson learned. Sometimes it’s better just to see a patch to it even if it doesn’t look as cool. And a side note. I don’t even know where these pants are now (probably in my craft room with another hole)