Some time ago I pinned a tutorial from Gabrielle at Design Mom for patching jeans with holes in the knees

Emily is three at the end of the year and is shooting up like nobody’s business. Now that the weather has taken a turn for the chilly I was fishing out some trousers for her only to find that they were all too short! I did however find some of Charlotte’s old jeans. Sadly they were in need of repair in the knee area. Rather than throw them out I thought it would be fun to try out Gabrielle’s tutorial

I followed the tutorial as it was written. I used steam-a-seam as the double sided interfacing and a scrap of denim for additional reinforcement behind the fabrics I used

For the first pair I used some fabric scraps that I had left over from the Washi dress that I am using in a series of sewing lessons that I am giving at the moment

I even sewed a few crosses around the opening like Gabrielle did and I rather like the effect.

Emily wore these jeans today and she was most perturbed that she was….

1. not wearing a pretty dress

2. wearing jeans, and

3. that she was wearing jeans with a hole in them

Life is very confusing when you are an Emily!

The second pair of jeans only had a teeny hole in one knee. As this pair were a lighter wash denim I settled on a light pink and white fabric and some red embroidery thread

They are a fairly plain boring pair of jeans so I added a heart to the back pocket. I even used my own template for the heart shape!

Are you a make do and mend kind of person or are you a chuck it in the bin and buy something new kind of person? I must admit that repairing clothes is normally at the very bottom of my priority list, but this tutorial was great fun!