Innovative Jeans Patch- Decorative Thread Technique -fascinating

Hey guys, welcome to Downtown Tailoring. Sorry for the background noise, we are doing dryclean at the same time. Today's job is fantastic. We are going to work in a patch and remember, not everything in sewing is written in stone, so the patch of today is very unconventional but it looks wonderful. So let's go! This is the pants of our customer, it has two huge holes in the knee area and the customer used it for a long time like that but now the customer told me that it would be better if I cover them. I offer another kind of patch that is filled with thread instead of jeans material. I have this thread which is very similar to the original thread of the jeans, you see? Pretty much similar, very very similar. And I have this one which is a little bit more lighter blue, you see? So I put them together because I'm not quite sure which one I want to choose. One is more the exact color and the other is more... The undertones are better because the undertone of the gray is like a yellowish and I think it won't look good, it will look like a little dirty but the other I think will look better so I think I made my decision. I will use the blue line. I will start by opening my sides. I open my sides because I find it easier to maneuver the job going back and forth with the patch and this is a chain stitch and you know, chain stitch is the easiest to open because the pants are a little bit old. I have to remove a few stitches at the back too and I'm pulling both at the same time and you see, very very very easy. Now I have access to the patch, it makes it very easy and I will open the other side because I found easier to work both at the same time. I repeat exactly the same and pull. I'd say that this is an intermediate, not easy to open, not too hard neither, quite okay chain stitch to open. Now that I have my two sides open, I'm gonna iron my material. And I have to tell you something, this material is stretch and I wouldn't recommend those patches for stretching material. But in that case, the jeans are a little bit wide on my customer, I know, I know. So it will be completely safe. Now I am trying once more to see the tooth thread. I know I go back and forth but I wanted to see and yes, definitely, the blue looks better than the gray. Sometimes I use even golden thread, white thread as well but this time I wanted to make it like more similar to the ripped thread. So let me show you how I will make this patch, it's so interesting, I love it. So I'm going to use this thread as I said and I will put it underneath all the time and for that, what I'm gonna do, I will kind of wind it with my hands in the long strikes and when I have enough, then I can use it in my pants. What I'm looking for is to have it kind of flat like a skein thread, something like that. And I will put it up in my thread and for that, I'm gonna need other materials, of course. Look at how flat it looks and this is what I'm looking for. So if you have like a sashiko thread like that, it's fantastic, this is the best to do those patches. But the only color I have now is this dark blue or you can use this one too and it will be so easy because you just have to cut it. Most of the time I said that I use a white and this is why I have it on white. So I'm using this fabric glue stick, this one is water soluble, after the first wash the glue will go, I'm just using it temporarily. So I can glue my pieces of thread without any problem. And here you go, what I'm doing, I'm just starting from the bottom part and I'm putting my first line and then I go again and kind of wind the thread with my hands in long strikes and then I will put it again and then I will keep repeating the same thing until I cover everything. As you can see, it's a job that requires a little bit of patience but not really that much. You enjoy more doing that job than the patience that you need and when you know that the results will be fantastic, then you do it so happy, like I love to do this kind of patch. Of course because this kind of patch takes more time, you know, sometimes I cannot do it because then I have to charge to my customer a little bit more. But in your case, if you are going to do it at home, just, you know, have fun doing it. So I finished my first part and as you can see, you can see all the thread. You know, I try to stretch it out the best I can, fill up any gaps that I can see and then I will cut it. If I had a little bit more glue, I would have cut it like a hair, you know, like a tic-tic-tic-tic. But because I don't have so much, I'm just cutting it straight to not have any problem. Now I'm using this interfacing, this is 100% cotton interfacing. It has a glue in one side. I'm using my pinkie shear scissors to cut like a square, not like a square, a rectangle, big enough to cover all the thread. And then I will just iron and with that, the thread will be secure. Let me show you how it looks. You see how it's looking? Hmm, looks nice, huh? But wait, wait, we have more to show you. The thread lines look so natural, so well, like it's part of the jeans. Now let's go to the other side and this side has two holes. I won't cover one because the one at the bottom is basically covered. And now I will show you another way that you can do the winding and probably, probably is a little bit easier. So what I'm doing, I am winding that in my piece of cardboard, but I take two at the same time. You can take three or four, it's up to you. And before I put the thread in my material, I have to be sure that my material is very stretched. That's why I'm pinning it. Now I will cut the extreme and it's kind of flat the way I want it and probably in an easy way. I'm still lazy and do it the other way, but I think this way is easier and it give you better results. Yeah. You see how big is that piece? So I don't have to do that so many times if I use this way, but you know, being my head so hard, I'm so stubborn. I keep making it the other way, but you know, anyways, it's finished, it's done, right? So it's okay. And now I'm cutting again the other part and as I can see, I will put, this one is a little bit bigger because I want to cover the bottom part because I have another plan for it. And look how it looks like the other, it looks fantastic, all the threads are there, it looks like it's part of the jeans. Now my next step is to look a matching thread. I'm trying to find a thread that you don't see so much when I do my top stitch. And I will set the length of the stitch at 1.75. The first thing I do is to secure the edges. So I do one or two stitches on top and you see, you cannot see it from the top. And then I go to the other edge and do the same. One or two stitches and now I know that my edges are secure and now I can work in my patch. And you know, you've seen me in other videos, I go back and forth, back and forth turn. And in this case, I don't go up and all the way down all the time, just sometimes. And I finish my first patch and then I will do exactly the same with the other. Remember, try to make those lines more or less parallel. This is not a matter of, you need laser to make it perfect. But if you make it nice, it will look better. So you are trying to look that. I use more or less the width of the foot and I go every two lines parallel using the width. So that way it's easier for me to achieve more or less homogeneous lines. You see these lines are pretty much homogeneous, like more or less the same distance. And now my next step is to iron. And for the bottom part, I will make a kind of embroidery, Sachiko inspired, but this is not really Sachiko, no. Just inspiration. As I said again, you know, you have to measure your time when you are working with customer and you don't want to make things that takes too much time because then you have to charge too much and you want to make the alterations nice, but affordable too, right? So I'm just marking some stars and I will use my Sachiko thread. This is the best. If you are going to do that, try to find an original one. And these are Sachiko needles. And that this one specifically at the first time I'm using them, they are fabulous. They are fantastic. I was using another kind of needle that weren't that good. And this is why I decided to get this one. And I just love it. I realized that I almost can do in one pass the three, but I probably, if I use a bigger needle would be better. So I changed my needle to bigger one and in one pass I can do the whole thing and I can do my job easier and faster. See? This is the fantastic thing of this needle because the needle is firm but is sharp enough so you can do the job and it doesn't bend. And it's just great, honestly. I'm telling you, it's the first time that I use this brand specifically and I love it. I'm doing my embroider, it's just, I'm not trying to do anything perfect, just something that looks nice and it will last long at the same time. Because I'm securing it with this embroider, all the stitches. And now my embroider is almost done and here you go. You see? Just nice. And I will do another embroider to the other side just to balance the job. And this one I will make it a little bit different. I didn't put any patch underneath because the embroider per se will hold everything and in this case specifically that the jeans is not really really broken, it will hold enough. And here you go, let me iron and I just need to close the sides of my jeans and the job is done. I really like it. I found this really nice. Not always I have the customer because they don't understand sometimes what I mean when I try to explain, oh I can use just thread. But look at that, look how these pants look. Looks at this patch, the embroider, everything is just so young, so nice, so fresh. So guys, I hope that you like this video. If you like it, please don't forget to subscribe, like, share, comment. Thank you so much, bye!