How to Sew Ripped Jeans

Your favorite jeans don't have to be a dust a rag if you sew up the rips.

While ripped jeans come and go as all the rage, your favorite pair can be turned to tatters unless you sew up rips immediately. You can sew ripped jeans with a few simple tips.

Things You'll Need

• Ripped jeans
• Needle and thread
• Fabric patch
• Iron (if needed for patch)

Instructions

1. Turn the jeans inside out so you can concentrate on the rip from the inside.

2. Snip away any lengthy fringe that may be hanging down as a result of the rip.

3. Hold the edges of the rip together and stitch it up, making sure your stitches are on firm ground and not held by hope on fringed edges.

4. For extra measure, cut down a fabric patch to fit over the rip and a little outside it. Either iron or sew the patch into place.

5. Turn the jeans outside out and enjoy.

Tips & Warnings

• If the rip looks stupid, you may want to sew a jazzy appliqué over the top of it.

• You can always secure rips with stitching around their edges so they don’t get bigger but keeping the ripped part if that happens to be the trend of the day.

• Rips in the butt area definitely need to be enforced by a patch.

• Rips that have grown too wide or frayed cannot be repaired this way without making a huge pucker in the jeans. In those cases use a patch ironed on from the inside in the nearest color of the jeans.