| Until recently we couldn't imagine putting on jeans with | | | | The patches themselves can be made of bright |
| a patch anywhere except for some hard dirty work. | | | | contrast fabric as well. Denim of a different color, |
| Today the situation has changed: worn and torn | | | | flower-dotted fabric, chequered cloth, lace and leather |
| customized jeans are fashionable. Special research to | | | | can be used for patches on jeans. |
| find new methods of creating different stages of worn | | | | If you aspire to create your individual style by building |
| effect is being made. However, sometimes it is | | | | original jeans just let your imagination fly and |
| necessary to put a patch on jeans from practical | | | | accentuate the torn and cut parts of your jeans. |
| considerations - to mend and repair them. Here are | | | | Sometimes it is good just to scrabble in a button box, |
| some tips on how to put in a patch in a right way. | | | | find old imitation jewelry, beads or bright threads. |
| The classical method of putting in a patch can be | | | | Natural or deliberately made holes fixed with a |
| carried out by hand or using a sewing machine. The | | | | safety-pin decorated with bright beads or cuts |
| materials you'll need are quite simple - thread of the | | | | embellished with chains, small bells or metallic |
| same color as the fabric you want to repair. If you | | | | decorative elements can become an unusual highlight |
| want the patch to be practically invisible you should | | | | which will never leave your jeans unnoticed. |
| use the thread of the weft or chain for it will better | | | | Here is an idea of jeans embellishment with shaped |
| merge with the cloth you are going to mend. | | | | patches. Take your old torn jeans, pieces of any fabric |
| Stockage of the worn fabric is made from the outside | | | | you like, corresponding thread, a needle, sartorial chalk |
| with a thin thread from the same fabric by lifting with | | | | and scissors. Use sharp cuticle scissors to unseam the |
| small stitches the threads of the weft and with longer | | | | side stitches of your jeans near the place you want to |
| stitches - the threads of the chain. | | | | put in a patch. This procedure will make it possible for |
| Mending of cuts or holes on customized denim is | | | | you to work using a sewing machine. |
| carried out by adding the threads to the fabric being | | | | After you've thought over your patch composition |
| repaired in staggered order. If needed the thread is | | | | draw it on the trouser leg of your customized or |
| folded in two. It is important that the fabric you want to | | | | custom jeans using a sartorial chalk. Go back a |
| repair is well stretched, you can use small embroidery | | | | centimeter from the main pattern lines and mark out |
| hoop to achieve this. | | | | the stitching allowances. Make small vertical cuts on |
| Putting in a patch is carried out from the outside of | | | | the stitching allowances. |
| fabric. To fix it first of all pin it to denim with preens | | | | Turn over the stitching allowances inside and sew |
| and then tack it on the contour. After you've done this | | | | them. Choose a piece of contrast cloth for the |
| fix it with thin thread and small stitches in chain and | | | | patches. Put it into the trouser leg so that it closes the |
| weft direction. It is important to treat the seamy side of | | | | cuts and fix it with pins in order to have an impression |
| the cloth in order to hide the added part in a better | | | | of how your ready-made patches would look like. |
| way. | | | | Tack and stitch a piece of contrast cloth to denim. |
| However, last fashion tendencies use patches on | | | | Stitch the edges of the front part of the patches using |
| jeans as a means of creating individual personalized | | | | a back-and-fore stitch and contrast thread. If you |
| style. Thus additional attention is given to damaged | | | | make it by hand, use embroidery floss. |
| jeans parts decorated with patches. That is why | | | | Another composition of patches can be situated in the |
| mending, stitching and fixing of patches is deliberately | | | | bottom of the second trouser leg. Finish all the patch |
| done with the use of colored contrast thread in order | | | | edges and stitch the unseamed places. That's it! |
| to make patches more obvious. | | | | |