Ahah good question, I think I'm going to naively hope it will be fine! But I'm planning to iron on some interfacing on the back this afternoon and wash them inside out maybe?
Honestly I'm not sure! I think because I do quite a bit of sewing, the skills for embroidery are quite transferable? I had also made a little embroidery reference hoop with loads of different stitches, which was really helpful as I'd have a look at what stitch I fancied and add it :)
Thank you :) I forgot to take a photo of the hole beforehand, this photo is the best I can do! The hole was about the size of my thumb, because of my phone wearing it down!
(I tried to edit my post to include the photo, but I'm not very techy and I can't figure out how to do it!)
seeing the hole makes it all the more impressive 🤯 that's a really sizeable hole and I can't even detect it under the embroidery, your work is inspiring 🤩
Really nice work. This might be a dumb question but is this embroidery to cover the whole? And/or do you patch the whole and then embroider on top of the patch?
No worries at all, yeah the hole was the size of my thumb! I put a square of fabric under the hole and found a YT video that showed how to mend a hole with a flower pattern, then added other bits to make it less obvious.
Ok. Cool so there is a patch but it’s underneath and just has embroidery on top. Was the patch material color the same as the pants to help it blend in or completely different?
Yeah, I just used some spare fabric regardless of the colour as the flower covered it up. But I did choose a thick cotton as it would better match denim fabric and hopefully wouldn't break as quickly!
Here is the Youtube video I followed (I just had to size up the flower lol), if you're interested in copying :)
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u/Ok-Football6675 Feb 08 '25
That is truly lovely. Well done.