Thank you all for the encouragement and advice!! I finally had a little time after work today to tinker around with patching up one pair of pants. Ran out of thread haha. I just had some little spools and I had just enough thread to cut the legs off the most damaged pair of pants and hem them into shorts. And then patch one knee hole and shorten up the legs a little bit, this fabric stretches a lot as the day goes by and I notice I end up walking on my pants by the end.