Non-quilting question
#1
Since ya'll are such a wonderful source of information, does anybody know how to patch jeans? My DD is really rough on her pants. I bought iron-on patches from Walmart. They don't stay on. I haven't even washed them yet and they are already peeling off. How can I get them to stay on?
#6
I wanted to stitch them on too, but the leg is too narrow. I'd have to take them apart to do that, but I'm not confident enough that I'd be able to get them back together. Then she'd be pantsless, considering jeans are all she'll wear.
#7
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With boys, I found that as soon as I bought a pair of jeans, I would wash them, sew on a patch of old, well washed jeans material. With the added protection inside, these jeans lasted far longer than others.
#8
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just like fusable applique you still have to stitch them down after fusing them. press the iron on patch over the hole very well, it takes a HOT iron. then let it cool completely and stitch a zig-zag stitch around the patch. you can also put appliques over the hole, use the iron on patch on the inside and an applique of some sort on the outside. double the thickness then and hopefully will hold up a little longer.
#9
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Join Date: Mar 2010
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I open up the leg as well in order to iron on then stitch on the patch...Ironing it on eliminates the need to pin! It's really not difficult to put the leg back together as long as you take out the inseam, which is a regular seam and not felled seam like the outer seam is.
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