Is it possible to patch up jeans stylishly??

[ceebeegeebies]

Have got a fantastic pair of jeans - lovely fit and will look even greater in the summer with flip flops/sandals so am desperate to keep them.

They are of the distressed variety and a hole developed in the knee almost as soon as I got them (as it was meant to be there so couldn't take them back) and it has just got bigger and bigger and is starting to look faintly ridiculous now.

I really want to keep these jeans and wondered if there is anything I can do to patch them up?

cox and cox do iron on patches (you could have a look and see whether they would suit your style)

You can patch nicely if you can sew...I sometimes do them...trick is to do the patch behind the hole, leaving the thread bits visible. I did some with vintage fabric and it lookd great...a chose a rose print heavy fabric and invisibly stitched it behind the hole.

People asked me where they were from...lot's of admiration.

SeeJaneKick - that is what we used to do when I was a teenager!(brought back memories of ripped 501's with Liberty print fabric patches and matching scrunchies!).

Yes, iron-on patch behind or vintage fabric. If the hole is like a slit, I then do random zigzag stitch with machine in a muted colour eg khaki backwards and forwards across the slit, just to keep it closed.