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Mend them by sensitively integrating your stitches and handwork with the worn denim texture. To
make them durable and chic you will fuse and patch on the inside and then re-enforce with stitching in
the worn areas, blending your handwork harmoniously with the intrinsically cool, naturally worn look.
If you have some general sewing experience then you can easily mend your jeans with this technique.
note: The patched area in the example in the photos is the width of the front leg, from the side seam to
the crotch seam. When jeans are quite worn like these it’s more efficient to patch the entire area, to
avoid having to frequently make additional patches.
Pin the fusing on the plaid cotton (or your novelty cotton fabric.) Cut ½” larger all around the perimeter.
(And if you have pinking shears then use them.)
Press well the area you will patch, also smoothing neatly in place and pressing any loose denim threads.
Turn your jeans inside out and press again the area you will be patching, careful to smooth flat and
neatly any loose denim threads.
Set your sewing machine to a medium length zigzag stitch. Sew back and forth over every split. You
want to sew in more or less paraellel rows, following the grain, and extending beyond the worn area. If
it is an area that gets a lot of wear, repeat, zigzag stitching perpendicular, along the cross grain. The
white denim threads, any
holes, and all the terribly
worn areas will be re-
enforced with your stitching.
Sew until you are satisfied
with the look and the
durability. Your repairs will
look like the photo opposite,
quite invisible and blending
with the naturally worn
shade of the denim.
Press.