{"id":178,"date":"2026-02-17T12:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/?p=178"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:59:40","slug":"i-patched-my-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"I Patched my Jeans."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, kinda jeans, trousers. I\u2019ve got this pair of old work trousers that I\u2019ve been using for garden work for the last 6 months or so and the knee finally started blowing out. Normally when this happens I ignore it until it\u2019s completely destroyed but this time I thought I\u2019d try a different approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I rescued some cloth from a different pair of trousers that I had ruined and cut up for rags in the garage. In fact, I\u2019d already used the cloth to wipe up some oil or other, but there was still a good amount of clean cloth. After washing the cloth I took a piece of paper and cut out the shape of the patch I wanted. Since the knee wear area is quite large I decided to cover the whole knee section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I traced around the template onto the back of the patch fabric and then cut it out. To hold it in place I elected to use glue stick glue, since the cloth was cotton. Then I had the task of sewing the patch on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted a stitch that would secure the edges of the patch as well as hold it to the leg of the garment and went with a blanket stitch. Now, I don\u2019t know anything about sewing so maybe I made a mistake. It just seemed to me that the blanket stitch would secure the edges of the patch without having to hem it first. We shall see. In any case it took me a few hours, on and off, to sew around the edge of the patch. My biggest frustration was, using a doubled thread, it would twist and tangle itself into a tiny knot that wouldn\u2019t let me draw the thread through without leaving a loop on the inside, so I had to be careful that the stitch was made completely. Also, getting the tension on the stitch was also a bother, with one hand inside the leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Positioning the needle for the stitch from inside was also a bit of a problem until I discovered that I could run the tip of the needle along the fabric and watch the dimple move as I zeroed in on the point where I wanted the thread to pass through. That saved a lot of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At long last I got to the end of the job and tied off the last bit of thread. Thoughts? The job is, well I wouldn\u2019t say high quality but considering it\u2019s my first patch job, it\u2019s not terrible. It\u2019s a little uneven and maybe could have been a bit closer. Perhaps I could have used the sewing machine, except to do that I\u2019d need to refamiliarise myself with its operation. I could also have done some more reading on how to sew on a patch. Actually that might have been useful. At any rate, I have a patched pair of pants and we\u2019ll see how my work holds up in actual use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, kinda jeans, trousers. I\u2019ve got this pair of old work trousers that I\u2019ve been using for garden work for the last 6 months or so and the knee finally started blowing out. Normally when this happens I ignore it until it\u2019s completely destroyed but this time I thought I\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blinkbonnie.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}