Patch Pants

Our granddaughter Sommer just turned 13. Where did those years go? The first 7 years of her life we were grandpa and grandma daycare – and we loved it! She brought so much joy into our lives. I can’t believe how fast the time has flown.

Sew ~ what would she like for her 13th birthday? I thought back to when my daughter was that age, and remembered I’d made her a pair of what she called patch pants that she loved. Hmm. I headed to a local thrift store and bought a pair of jeans in Sommer’s size. Then I pulled some scraps out of my fishbowl (to read a post about Sommer and my fishbowl full of scraps click here).

I cut the seam off along the outsides of the legs to a few inches above the knee.

Then I sewed the scraps into a strip.

I selected a fun stitch on my machine, laid the patch strip under one side of the opening in the leg, and stitched.

Yup ~ cherries ~ since that’s what Kirsch means in German 😊. I actually didn’t notice the cherries in the fabric until I began stitching. Too much fun!

Pinning and stitching the other side of the opening was a bit more challenging since these are skinny leg jeans. But I persevered.

And they turned out nicely.

Sommer loved them!

Happy birthday Sweetheart 😘.