Show Us Your Holes (VIDEO - Visible Mending)
Added 2023-03-15 20:23:41 +0000 UTCMatt is an avid climber (indoor bouldering, specifically). Even though he's invested in pants specially made for the activity, he climbs so zealously that he regularly reduces them into scraps.
After some small mending jobs, his pants were getting so threadbare that just attaching new patches would actually tear the jeans material, creating new rips right along the fresh repairs. It was time for some Heavy Duty Pants Reinforcing. I cannibalized fabric from his previous pair and used some leftover IKEA iron-on hemming tape to adhere it inside the current set, just to keep the patches in place until I could sew them down.
Once each patch was secured, I encased the edges of each legit rip in tight stitches like a mummy, to keep it from unraveling further.
Now I had to fill up the entire size of the patches with additional stitches to really seal the two fabric pieces together, because lord only knows IKEA hemming tape isn't built for repairing active wear.
After my first two stabs at freehanding designs, my most aesthetically pleasing attempt was on the leg I tackled last, using a jar lid as a stencil to get perfect circles to stitch along. (The back butt had wobbly, differently-sized overlapping circles, and the right leg had a really basic, almost invisible, square grid that does not show up in pictures.)
Matt noted that, while holding still, the stitches lining the tears were a tiny bit stiff-scratchy-ish, but once he was actually moving around and on the wall he didn't notice them at all.
All in all, they pass the test and will be returned to active duty in Matt's wardrobe.
Comments
Hurray for mending! And hurray for bouldering, that sounds fucking awesome. Also hurray because my spring cold (theoretically not COVID) is finally abating.
The Ferret
2023-03-21 01:18:49 +0000 UTCBwahhhh thank you! That means a lot to me, because I really do love reading books aloud β€οΈ
Erika Moen
2023-03-19 21:52:00 +0000 UTCAhh I loved this! Those overlapping circles are a great design choice. And for some reason your voice in the video surprised me, but in the best way. I could listen to hours of you explaining sewing projects, you have a good youtuber voice! :D
Jaeger Spratt
2023-03-19 17:16:53 +0000 UTCπ
Erika Moen
2023-03-17 07:26:07 +0000 UTCClearly a β€οΈ transpant
Jack Foy
2023-03-17 06:39:42 +0000 UTCOMG those circles are so cool!
Tamara
2023-03-16 17:25:06 +0000 UTCHeβs a natural U_U
Erika Moen
2023-03-16 17:03:46 +0000 UTCMatt is such a compelling model in all the pictures.
Karine Charlebois
2023-03-16 15:04:05 +0000 UTCLove this... You just have this way of turning something that might otherwise seem mundane into something utterly delightful!
Zena Darling
2023-03-16 00:49:07 +0000 UTCA WIZARD OF PANTS. Also, y'all adorable
Devon McGuire
2023-03-15 23:26:00 +0000 UTCBrendan! Send me your pants that need mending! I WILL FIX THEM.
Erika Moen
2023-03-15 21:19:48 +0000 UTCI came here to say this! I'm so jealous of these pants now
Brendan J
2023-03-15 21:12:40 +0000 UTCIβm having a clothing mending party with my friend on Friday! I have some buttons to fix and a shirt armpit to replace. A timely post π
Lauren P.
2023-03-15 20:55:24 +0000 UTCOoh the circles pattern kind of look like a traditional sashiko design. The whole (hole) project is awesome β€οΈ
Sharon Hughes
2023-03-15 20:30:47 +0000 UTC
