Holey Jeans

A's been wearing his jeans with huge large holes in the back. I was saying that his underwear was quite noticeable but it didn't bother him. (No he doesn't wear this colour underwear but I wanted something that would show the holes clearly.) But then one day he said that maybe the holes were a bit big.

So I suggested that I could try to repair them. I took his jeans to the charity store and tried to match up the colour even though I was hoping that it wouldn't show through. I put some paper behind the holes and poked a needle through to get the outline, drew around the outline and then used it as a template.

I think that they turned out OK and he put them on this morning to go to school, so I suppose he was satisfied.

Shortening My Jeans

I was turning up my jeans but I felt that I was too old for that look. I knew my sewing machine wouldn't agree to sew through 3 layers of jean material if I cut and hemmed them, so I looked for some other way and came across this link to a tutorial at figandplum.com.

Basically you measure how much you want to take up, divide that by half, make a fold with that measurement just above the hem stitching line and sew it so that the original hem stitching is still showing. I used my zipper foot so that I could get close to the original hem. I sewed my extra fabric to the jeans because I didn't want it to hang down below the cuff nor did I want to cut it. It is a bit noticable but maybe only to me – who else would be looking at it?