Giving life to a well loved pair of jeans

 Your most favorite pair of jeans or maybe your best fitting jeans are starting to wear, some holes around the knee and thigh area are cool... you can even buy jeans with holes already worn in those areas.  But other areas -- the back pockets, the inside thigh, those are usually warning signs that your jeans are about to become unwearable in public - about to become "house-jeans."

A few years ago, someone brought their very loved pair of jeans to me with some scrap fabric and asked if I could just mend them and it was ok to mend them so the fabric showed.  I took a closer look at the mended jeans and noticed all the fabric patches.  Now, I know this isn't a look for everyone but there was something really unique about these pants and they fit the personality of my client perfectly.  I loved them, I'm not sure why, they just looked really great to me.  So I mended them and didn't think much about it until recently when my girlfriend asked if I could patch her jeans.  I used this method only on family, mainly my college student daughter who was trying to nurse her jeans until the very end of their life.   So when a girlfriend asked if I could repair her jeans, I thought she'd be perfect for my new favorite technique!

As you can see, it's quite a rip, one that could possibly be sewn together in a very tight neat stitch but I wanted something fun, something to match my friend's personality. 

I used fabric from a repair I made on my daughter's jeans and thought this would be perfect.  Serging the edges so nothing would fray that wasn't meant to fray and top stitching around the rip would hold everything where it needed to be held.

The repair wasn't a forever fix, but it did give add some more time to these much loved jeans. Eventually my friend blew a hole through the center back seam and had to retire them.