Trollkjerringa: How to patch a hole

Patching a hole in your favourite jeans isn't very difficult .

You don't need a lot of fancy stuff either

All you need is a needle , some sewing thread a pair of sissors and a patch of fabric .

If you have some old clothes you can cut them up and use them for patches.

Here I have used a bit of a leg from a donated pair of jeans . I decided to use crochet thread for my stitching this time, but regular sewing thread or embrodery thread works fine . Use what you have ,

Make sure your patch is covering the hole and a little bit around, my hubbys jeans was well worn and had a bit of worn areas around the hole so I made the patch quite big .

I used pins to hold it in place , and folded in edges to keep it from fraying. A lot of people think it's cool with a little frayed edges, but mr Trollkjerringa don't .

I sewd the patch with backstitch you find a tutorial here

To fasten your thread sew a few stitches in the same place

Stitch around the patch through bout layers

It's always nice to have a assistant, but not nessesary

Then you have stitched all the way around , remember to fasten off by stitching a few stitches in the same place . Now you have managed to patch your jeans.

If you want to you can keep going and making the patch a bit more.decorative.

I chose to make a little sashiko inspierd decorations on this jeans.

this ar just runningstitch

it's possible to skip the entire first step and sew running stitch throug bout layers