Add a Patch to a Pair of Jeans Using Zig Zag Stitching Techniques

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" On behalf of expertvillage.com, I am Jennifer with A Perfect Fit Alterations. We’re located at 102. S. Main Street in Burleson, Texas. Our phone number is 817-447-3522. Now we have a hole in this pair of pants. The fad at the moment is… the kids still want the hole. They want the raggy edges; they still want to see there’s a hole there, but in schools you can’t have a hole in your pants. So to solve this situation, we’re going to put a patch behind the hole, leave the hole there and use the zigzag stitch to secure the patch in place. It’s a little tricky to get this underneath your machine. You want to make sure you’re using the free arm of your machine, get the hole right up in there underneath where you’re sewing on your machine. This will make your kids real happy because they’ll be able to keep the hole in their pants, and make you happy so you can’t see through the hole. Okay, you have the hole positioned. Take just a scrap of denim, you can even use a colored piece of fabric behind here so that you can see the color through the hole: whatever you want to do, you can make it as decorative or non decorative as you want. Slide the patch up underneath here. Make sure—it’s real important that you don’t have the bottom leg of the fabric of the pants tucked up underneath there. You want to make sure that you get the hole centered over the piece of fabric that you’re using. Now you don’t need any glue or anything, just make sure that you cut your piece of fabric that you’re putting behind this hole big enough so that you can cut it away later. And you’re going to go just a little bit to the right of the hole—you don’t want to sew into the hole because the kid still wants the hole there; you don’t want to go too far out cause then you won’t catch the patch that’s underneath the fabric. Now you’re going to use your zigzag stitch to secure this on. You’re going to use a wide stitch, and you’re going to use a wide stitch length. You’re going to go all the way around your hole—and you can use a different color thread doing this, make it as decorative or non decorative as you want to. It’s a little tricky when you’re turning these jeans, so keep your needle down in the fabric and turn the jeans. This is something you have to be a little patient with when you’re turning the jeans here. You want to look underneath your hole here and make sure you still have your scrap of fabric under there. Do a back stitch to lock your stitch in place. And you have repaired the hole in the jeans and the kids can still have their fashion hole."