I patched 4 pairs of jeans over the summer for a friend. They had BIG holes in them. But she didn't have money for new jeans at that point, and she was losing weight and would need to get smaller jeans within a month or so, and (most importantly) she had basically acted as my research assistant and copied and scanned a bunch of articles I needed for my thesis, so that I didn't have to drive 4 hours to get them myself. So I was willing to patch a few pairs of jeans. ;) And I have all her college T-shirts to make her a memory quilt, but that' a different matter....