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"Don't just throw ripped jeans away, you can repair them using these 10 cute Visible Mending techniques!!" unfortunately my friend the first point of failure for every single pair of jeans i have owned in my life has been the Crotch and Ass. Knees: fine, cuffs: fine; but 3 years in, and all that stands between the world and my astronaut-patterned taint is 0.5µm of denim worn so thin that every squat threatens to tear it to shreds like wet toilet paper. If the Tiktok craft community could figure out a way to resurrect jeans afflicted in such a way that doesn't involve adding a whole ass buttpatch like some sort of inverse assless chaps situation then that'd be great

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May I recommend the sashiko family of techniques? I’m not sure if you’ve seen this particular method but it’s one that is likely thousands of years old and is especially good for areas like the inseam or the knees that generally get more wear than other regions:

Many of the visible mending hacks one sees are designed to be aesthetic and not structural, as OP points out, but this technique is different:

1) you’ll notice that the mended area is larger than the actual damage. All of the stitched area indicates where additional fabric is added for strength.

2) the pattern of visible stitching is PRACTICAL in this work. The reason pants wear down along the inseam is that the fabric is constantly being rubbed against the other leg. Here, the stitching is what’s rubbing against itself, and the embroidery will fail first, meaning the fabric underneath will last longer.

3) this technique is very, very simple once you draw your grid, and there are plenty of places online that sell water soluble graph paper that you can sew into as a guide and then wash out.

Please please please don’t give up on home sewing and mending because of content farms - I promise there’s a whole world of incredibly simple and reliable techniques that - while perhaps time consuming - are PROVEN to increase the longevity of your clothes AND give you further opportunities to express your creativity and style!!!

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sashiko is a special interest of mine and I have a pair of patch pants i have put HUNDREDS of hours into. if you are seeing this message, you have full permission to send me asks to learn about sashiko!

it’s genuinely so easy once you understand the basic concept! i have experience with many forms of hand & machine sewing, including making garments from scratch, and sashiko is by far the easiest thing I know how to do. Time intensive, yes. But it’s so worth it. You’ll end up with a BEAUTIFUL garment that’s been mended to be even stronger than it was before!

here’s some Aesthetic Closeups of my patch pants. please note these images have been edited to show the colors & stitching more clearly, my pants are HORRIBLY non-photogenic color and texture wise 😭 also ignore any chalk marks I have multiple mends-in-progress