Mending-Yuck!
10-05-2016, 10:12 PM
#13
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I've replaced the leg fronts many times on my husbands work jeans. He always wore them out, above the knees, carrying heavy engine parts. I take old jeans, that have good back legs, rip out the leg seams & cut off the bad section of the fronts & sew in the back leg fabric. Whala new jeans.
His co-works (before he retired) asked if I'd fix their work jeans like that too. NO, NO, NO!
His co-works (before he retired) asked if I'd fix their work jeans like that too. NO, NO, NO!
10-06-2016, 01:58 AM
#14
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Tartan, I am not sure what my husband would say about your method of rehabbing his jeans-but I think it is a fun idea. However, Feather3, I am going to give your plan a try. Hubby has a pair of jeans that I have put patches on the left knee twice and it is ripped out above the last patch. He really loves them! I have another pair of his jeans that are beyond saving. I think I might even do that today. Thanks for the tips, ladies.
10-06-2016, 04:41 AM
#16
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Originally Posted by SewingSew
Awesome!! You should have quilted the knees...
. When my husband and I were first married, he wanted me to patch his favorite jeans. The fabric was so rotten it was futile to even try. Your patch idea might have worked on those pants. Very clever and he has more storage.
. When my husband and I were first married, he wanted me to patch his favorite jeans. The fabric was so rotten it was futile to even try. Your patch idea might have worked on those pants. Very clever and he has more storage.
10-06-2016, 04:58 AM
#18
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Location: Carroll, Iowa
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I hate mending with a passion too. Seems when someone finds out you have a sewing machine they automatically think you do mending. A neighbor guy came over and asked if I'd hem up his pants. I hate saying no so said okay. Took me 3 weeks before I finally got around to it as I hate it that much. Took them over to him and left them as he was taking a nap at the time. He came over the next day to pay me and told him they were on the house but that I won't do anymore cause I hate it. Had a pair of pants to shorten for myself and that's the only reason why he got his done as quickly as he did...................teehee.
10-06-2016, 06:34 AM
#19
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I detest mending projects. Everybody thinks just because I have sewing machines that I'm open for business. Of course, I will always mend my husband's clothes, but I don't enjoy it. My first real job was working in a tailor shop repairing and altering clothes on an army base. Not my dream job...
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