I don't necessarily like to mend or patch but if the garment is worth it I will do it out of love for my family including adult kids & gandkids. THere are alot of other things I am not to crazy about but I do them anyway...dishes, bathroom cleaning, hauling groceries home in sub zero cold or oppressive heat & humidity. I think it is kind of cute when my adult kids come to me for mending, spot removal advice. If it is more than a couple of minute project they will help make dinner, do dishes or whatever I need.

I don't patch especially jeans. There are a few things if the hem is coming down or I need a button. Just very simple things that need attention on some good clothes.

I will patch small, let me repeat that, small, holes that are easily taken care of. I will not however replace the zipper in your jeans even if you've only worn them once and you are my very special DGS!

My brother used to take jeans like that to my mother regularly. He stopped when she started putting pink and lime patches over the holes. As for me, when my kids had things that needed mending, I'd put them in the mending pile until they outgrew them and then took them to Goodwill for the rag bin.

Exactly!

The only way I will patch jeans is with an iron-on patch, usually at the knee (inside the leg, not on the outside surface). Luckily, my husband is OK with this.

I agree! I don't want to patch holes, take anything in or let it out. I don't want to make or alter anything for anyone...not even grandchildren. I like to quilt and only quilt. My husband doesn't question it and asks carefully if he needs something fixed that can't easily be replaced.

I recently tried to patch my DH's jeans. They were fairly new. It didn't work and it was frustating. They are now in my saved jeans pile. I too have been asked to alter clothes and I always say now and refer them to an alteration shop.

My ex husband ask me to patch a pair of his jeans once. Being a good wife I went ahead and patched them. The hole was up in the crotch area and I was so proud of the finished work I had done. He was a trucker and he would stop and shower along the way and get clean clothes on. WELL! I didnt realize it, but as he got back in the truck and headed down the highway he hit a bump in the road and a pin got him in the crotch. I guess it was so painful he had to pull all 18 wheeles off the road and jump out and take a look at what had invaded his crotch area. He never asked me to patch anything after that.Maybe thats why he is now my ex hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lol

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I am in stitches I am laughing so hard I love this one thanks you made my day !

I understand completely. I just hemmed 4 pairs of sweats for my short legged DH. He usually does not nag about it and just discretely lays them in the sewing room. I have told him I will get to them when I get to them and then I do. This is the same man who still has the beveled windows that I asked him to reglaze 5 years ago in his shop. Oh well, they give jail time to people who ponk the elderly on the head. LOL

It's not near as bad since we quit farming. Those barbed wire fences were awful on jeans and also certain pieces of machinery. Chain sawa are also not good. I don't mind doing them now since I do have a little more time.

I can relate. My DH has a closet full of pants that are too long and wonders why I won't take them up for him. I'm not good at that kind of sewing and anyway, why didn't he buy them the right length :wink:

I totally agree!! Sewing is my hobby, don't try to make it into work.

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I hate repair work I don't even sew on buttons!

Someone told me one time that Rembrandt didn't paint garages so why should we "mend." Seriously my DH thinks I should do mending, too. I hate it and rarely do it. He once bought two nice casual shirts and then wanted me to shorten the tails...talk about a disaster.
Hugs, DJ

I remember when I was first married..hubby had a hole in his sock..and he said my mom use to darn them..so..as I was pitching them in the garbage..I said..oh DARN sock..

So now it has been a joke for us for 33 years..

This is just too funny. My son works for a car dealership, in the maintenance department, here in Baltimore. He gets all greasy and dirty at his job and doesn't like to wear his good jeans to work because, after a while, they soon become soiled with grease and dirty just from wearing them home. Soooo, he picked out a pair of his oldest jeans, a pair he didn't care if the got really, really cruddy or not and would wear just those jeans back and forth to work. Once he gets to work he changes into his work uniform so he is only wearing them literally back and forth to work. Anyhow, he washes up after work but as anyone will know, there's nothing like a good hot shower to remove any residual grime left after he washes up at the end of his work day. Sooo, this pair of jeans he wears back and forth to work have been mended, I would say, dozens of times. I've patches the knees, the pockets, the belt loops when the started to come off, the seat of these jeans a worn sooo thin but I've patches them too, they split straight across the butt parts 3-4 times and he just washes them and brings them to Mom to mend. I think, at this point, there are more patches than actual jeans fabric left. Now, it's getting to be like a joke around the house. He washed them, puts them on the back of a dining room chair and I know it's time to mend. Sometimes, I look at those patched up jeans and think....Geez, just get another pair of old jeans and start over...but, these jeans will always be a memory. I hope he doesn't throw them out when he does decide to start wearing a different pair of jeans back and forth to work. I can keep these for when he's older and he'll have fond memories of his 'work jeans' and the many times Mom patched them up for him............The simple things in life that makes up happy.....who wouldda thunk!!!

ME TOO !!!! I love doing hems and alterations...I make GOOD money to buy QUILTING FABRIC and SUPPLIES !!!

My husband says you women are getting uppidy. I had to hold back, but I did not hurt him.

I am going to write this on the walls of my house!!!
What a great way to explain it!

NOOOOO!

I completely understand. I have a big stack of DH and Sons that I will cut up next spring when they are fishing trip.

I'm with you girls, I hate to patch anything and jeans especially!! I used to make a lot of clothes for my kids when they were home, now I absolutely refuse to do it, but I can quilt and quilt and quilt - because I love to do it. I think it brings out the artist stored somewhere in my brain. The only patches I like are quilt patches!!

I told my 39 year old DGD last week that I didn't do buttons, but I would be happy to show her how, and indeed even give her a needle and thread. You would have thought I had asked her to cook Sunday dinner for a cast of thousands...she looked at me and very calmly said, "But Grandmothers are SUPPOSED to do those kinds of things!" I have tried all the logic in the world, bribes, absolute refusals...and they still come! Somebody please give me the magic word...NO doesn't work here! At least by reading this post I know I'm not alone...LOL

I'm right there with you. My DH gave me a pair of pants to replace the button, and somehow they ended up in a box. I found them after we moved! He could no longer wear the pants (too ooo small). hey I got out of that "mending" !! hehe

My excuse for anything I don't want to do is: I saw it needed doing, but I chose not to do it. I usually get a huh?

I have patched my youngest son's overalls as he is an electrician and the ones he wears are $80.00 a pair. They are like sewing on tent material, but to save them the money I have done it. HOWEVER, anything else, the answer is 'I DO NOT MEND"....

I feel the same way My husband has put two pair of work pants in my sewing room because of holes in the pockets
I keep hoping they come up missing

When my dear MIL was alive she did any mending I had. They spent the winter in FL and when she came home I would have a stack of things from my family. She enjoyed doing that stuff while watching TV. Boy do I miss her.

I hate to patch, hem, sew zippers back in or hem. Everyone has finally quit asking me because when they put in in my sewing room it just disappears never to be seen again. LOL

My DH knows I hate to do mending so when he has something he wants me to fix he says, If it was for the kids or G-kids you would do it. He's right I would & thankfully they don't ask very often.

If he thinks it is fun & easy,show him how to do it. Make him understand that quilting is grate fun. After working all day, "you deserve to relax & enjoy yourself." Nancy

Yes, I understand. I also don't like to hem men's pants and my
husband has such short legs that I have to hem the new ones. I
guess we can't win them all but I think we may have the store to
shorten them next time.

I don't do mending. My mom always thought that patching clothes was a sign of being poor, as she grew up that way. I will hem pants but not patch. My son had this pair of pants that had all these holes in them and I kept throwing them in the garbage and he would take them out again and wear them. So I fixed him, I took the scissor and cut straight up the front of the leg. They stayed in the garbage. lol

Perfect for a denim quilt!

lol :lol: no its only the things you need that go missing!

I really enjoyed reading comments on this thread,Had lots of laughs.My Husband buys his pants long 34 length so I can hem them 33 I think the 32 are just perfect.I hate to hem too,even for my self.My son one time bought longer pants because they were out of his length.Please go to another store.Or how about the $100.00 pair of pants that have lining!Yes I did it,two expensive pairs.She offered to pay.But I didn't accept.I am getting fast at hemming pants,I just jump in a do it.But still will avoid buying pants that are to long for myself.And as far as hubby,I get even with him,He is handy!!!!!