Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste

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My Patched Pants [A crosspost] (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/31929482

Yes I patched them myself

Yes I know the patches stick out

And yes I do wear them out and about

EDIT: The back also has a few patches for those curious.

Pic of the back

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you sew a matching patch on the other side of the fabric? Did you consider putting the patch only on the inside?

I've not sewn a repair patch before, so I'm curious.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I didn't put any on the inside as I could feel them when I tried, the pants aren't tight I'm just really particular about the feel of what touches my skin.

These pants have basically been a learning platform for patching things lol

I hadn't done any patches before this pair of pants and at this point I'm getting pretty quick and good at it. There's some seams that I can still stitch up (somehow, I'll figure it out) but they're improving.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Awesome, thank you! I feel you on the inside patches, I just worry about stabilizing the pants enough to avoid the holes growing.