Despite the high-quality production of modern clothes, they can tear easily. Such wardrobe items as trousers often get torn. The safety of the fabric may be impaired if it comes into contact with sharp objects. Because of this, the presentable appearance of clothes is lost.
But still, you shouldn’t throw away your favorite thing, because it can be patched up.
Hole in trousers: how to sew it up
The entire complexity of the work depends on the quality of the material from which the product is made.
If this is a business suit, then you should carefully analyze in which specific place the hole appeared. This will help determine if the edges can be met.
Important! Repair is not possible if there is a significant hole in a visible area of the trousers.
In this case, the trousers will either need to be completely updated or completely forgotten about.
Sew up the hole by machine and by hand
When repairing products, you can use both hand and machine stitching.
Seam tear
When trousers are ripped at the seams, they should be turned inside out. Necessary stitch up the gaps. This is being carried out as close to the breaks as possible. And it ends a few centimeters beyond the processing area. The allowance is made in the same way as other seams.
In difficult areas, the seams are joined manually. For maximum strength, it is stitched 2 or 3 times.
In an inconspicuous area
Minor areas of wear, in which the edge can be combined, can be sealedb. You will need to cut a piece of non-woven fabric. Should choose a size larger than the hole. Necessary sweep it from the inside, which will ensure reliable contact with the fabric.
It is important to carefully fold the edges at the gap with the interlining. This will prevent the material from diverging from the trousers and make the hole invisible.
After that the gasket is ironed. It is much more convenient to carry out the procedure on a specialized ironing board under the sleeves.
Advice. The technique is used when the wear area is located in an inconspicuous area of the trousers.
On a prominent place
The appearance of a hole in smart or business trousers in visible areas affects their further use.
Many owners of the item will prefer to get rid of the trousers. But it should be understood that the situation can be easily corrected or used by combining various things. For example, with a jacket or vest, provided that they have an identical shade.
Often, various decorative elements or embroidery. This will allow you to harmoniously repair the hole in your trousers or their leg and cover this area with decoration. It looks beautiful on women's clothes.
How to patch pants
Most people have a hard time parting with their favorite pants. To extend their useful life, the product needs to be repaired.
Advice. If your trousers have a patch pocket, you can use it as a patch.
Often, with a large hole area, you have to use the entire pocket.
- To make it comfortable to work with the area being repaired, side seams need to be unstitched.
- For comfort you need place a flat, hard object under the fabric. This can be an ordinary board book with a hard cover.
- The patch must be placed so that it can easily completely cover the worn area.
- For comfort You can use tailor's pins to fold the edge of the patch and stitch it onto the material.
- If you have a small supply of patches, there will be nothing to bend. That's why decorative stitches are allowed on a sewing machine or do hand sewing.
- Once the patch is stitched, you can begin to disassemble the damaged surfaces. In cases when a hole has not formed, it is allowed to secure the worn area with stitches using a machine. It is necessary to cut out the terry cloths, and then reinforce the cut of the hole on the surface of the sewn patch with cobwebs.
- After this procedure, you can secure the cut of the hole using the appropriate stitch. For example, sew a three-stitch zigzag. Only after this is it possible to sew up the product.
The most insidious hole is between the legs
Often jeans and other trousers wear out at the joint of the legs.
Before you start work, you will need to cut the patch. It should be slightly larger than the wear area itself. You can use the bottom of your trousers as a patch if they were previously shortened and hemmed. You can borrow a patch from other unwanted trousers.
How to sew a hole by hand
Darn
The first method of manual repair is darning or darning.Threads selected to match are placed throughout the hole in one direction: horizontally or vertically. Try to ensure that they have small equal gaps.
Then fill the hole in the opposite direction. In this case, the needle is inserted alternately above and below the thread.
With diligent and careful work and matching threads, you can mend your trousers so that the intervention will be unnoticeable.
patch
- The trousers should be turned completely inside out.
- It is necessary to apply the patch on top and try it on so as to ensure complete coverage of the problem area. You will need to select plain threads.
- Often the grain threads on the fabrics of products appear in the form of black vertical stripes.
- It is important to sew up the hole using several zigzag stitches, which will give the pants a natural, presentable look, as if there was no hole there at all.
How to repair a sewing machine
- On the reverse side, a fabric patch or adhesive base is attached to the hole.
- The piece is done on the front side. Having threaded the threads most suitable in color, sew the stitch.
- The direction of the seam must be aligned with the direction of the threads of the material from which the trousers are sewn.
- The seam should extend beyond the edges of the hole by 0.8–10 mm.
- You need to apply as many lines as possible using reverse stitching.
- If the threads exactly match the color of the trousers, it will be unnoticeable that they have been repaired.
Repairing trousers at home is not a difficult task. However, it requires practical skill. By securing it while patching your pants, you can maintain the quality appearance of your clothes.