FIXING - boys will be boys - pants mending

Against better judgment a friend of mine climbed onto his apartment building roof late one night at a party. While on his adventure he caught the seat of his pants on a nail or something and tore the corduroy material. I said I would fix it.
That was months ago. I kept the pants an extra long time as a penalty for doing something so stupid.

Here is the rip with some pink paper behind it, to highlight the damage.

I took a scrap of similar baby/fine wale corduroy, trimmed the edges with pinking shears, and used spray adhesive to properly position it on the rip. I put the patch on the inside. Here it is.

Here is the outside of the tear after affixing the fabric patch inside. I trimmed all stray threads to make the torn edges clean.

I used a wide short zig zag to cover the rip. About 5 rows back and forth tracing the path of the tear. After that I sewed the perimeter of the patch in a small straight stitch. Along the pocket edge I sewed along the existing seams. I sewed along the lines of the corduroy about every half inch to really attach the patch (because the fabric there was stressed from the hole).

Here it is on the inside.

Here is the mending after from the outside.

FIXING - wool glove - darning

A stitch in time saves nine.

I try to instill this this in the minds of my friends. Especially those I do mending for. Small hole darning is so much easier than recreating a fingertip or elbow.

One friend of mine gets holes in his liner gloves. He also has kept that stitch in time adage in mind.

Here is the before picture. The holes are so small it is hard to see them.

BASIC DARNING INFORMATION FOR SMALL KNIT HOLES.

Here is a hole.

With your mending thread of choice, secure the perimeter. Find the intact loops of stitches on the edges of the holes and run your darning thread through them. Sometimes you have to go back a row or two to find a good loop to go through.

Recreate the fabric for the hole with long stitches in one direction (this example, vertically).

Now start recreating the fabric horizontally. Weave the thread in and out of the vertical threads.

If the hole is very small, like in this case, after securing the perimeter you might just have to stitch the hole shut.

I do not have a darning tool, so I use the handle of my knife sharpener for finger darning.

For the first hole I used some grey sock yarn.

Here is the first hole, mended.

The sock yarn was a little too bulky, so for the fingertip mending, I used heavy duty quilting thread.

Here is the hole before.

Here is the hole after.

Here is the glove, all mended up... for now.