I have owned lots of nice pairs of jeans over the years: Lucky, Joe’s, Seven, COH, AG…and none of them were purchased new. For some reason I always manage to find nice jeans at the thrift store for only a few bucks. The downside is that these jeans are always in best shape but I’m willing to deal with it to save $100 or more. My most recent jean purchase was a pair of Seven maternity jeans (yes, they make those) and they are by far the most comfortable pants I have ever worn. Last fall I found a pair of COH jeans during a bag sale so they probably cost about $.67 with all of the other goodies I tossed in the bag. These jeans have seen a lot; the hem had been modified to make it shorter and a large tear in the back had been professionally repaired. Back at Christmas I wore the jeans and while bending over ripped the same spot again and the jeans have been sitting in my sewing project pile ever since. I haven’t been able to do too many large sewing projects so I figured I could make this a 5-minute project after Noah went to bed. 
I only reopened a small part of the original hole but I wanted to reinforce the entire thing so that it wouldn’t happen again! 
Yes, I keep scrap denim….I think these are from an old pair of Jake’s work pants. 
Next up I cut and sergered my patch of denim. It’s not important that it’s a different wash since so little of the fabric would peak through but I wouldn’t want to use a brightly colored fabric. 
It’s kind of difficult to see in this shot but instead of using my sewing machine to attach this patch (I don’t want any additional thread showing on the outside) I used stitch witchery instead. 
Pressed the two pieces together and jeans are done!! 
Really….5 minutes. Why didn’t I do this 6 months ago? (The other motivation for fixing these jeans is that they are one of my looser fitting jeans so my pregnant hips/butt/thighs will appreciate the breathing room.)
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