The other day one of my favorite pairs of Jeans got a hole in them and I didn't really want to patch them with other Jean material. I had this cute cream and pink material with vines and leaves on it, so I used that. So to make them look more like I mean to have the patches there, I cut out one knee and put a piece of the material there and a little place on the thigh of the other leg and put a piece there. Then I hand tacked them on and machine stitched around them. Then, after I had washed them, I took the stitches where I had hand stitched them off, b/c they seemed to be more visible. After I had washed them, the jeans frayed around the patch and they turned out really cute. Don't know if your interested in that way, but I thought I'd share what I had done.