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Any experience with using iron on patches for holes in jeans front pockets? (self.sewingrepairing)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by letraset to c/sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works

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Greetings!

I almost always end up with jeans with holes in the bottom of the front pockets, because I wear a lot of stuff in my pockets all the time. The pockets give up way before the jeans themselves, but I don't want to stop wearing a perfectly fine pair of jeans, just because the pockets have given up, so I need to fix them.

In the past I have fixed the issue by folding the pockets above where the holes are, and then sewing across, so as to create a new bottom of the pocket. However, this means I lose pocket volume, which is not what I want.

So, I've been looking at iron on patches for fixing denim, and thinking that might do the trick. I have no experience with iron on patches in general, so wanted to ask if anyone has experience with these?

Are they easy to apply?
Do they last, both in terms of their ability to stay put where they were applied, and to wear?

Thanks for sharing any experience you've had with iron on patches for this purpose.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I find that iron-on patches don't tend to stay affixed. They fall off even faster when the cloth flexes repeatedly throughout the day.

I've had good luck hand stitching another piece of cloth to the underside of the garment.

[–] letraset 3 points 1 day ago

Amazing! Thank you for your reply and advice, much apprecciated.