inside: get more than 20 ways to creatively patch pants. Knee patches for pants are a great way to add new life to your kids clothes. Pants with patches can look cool.
Do your kids wear through clothes like crazy? I was just checking out my middle sons knees today and see new holes forming!! It’s time for some new pants patches!
I’ve been thinking a lot about refashioning this week. Earlier I shared my pants to skirt refashion... and upcycling adult sweaters for kids clothes. So today I thought I would follow the theme and share these super creative ways to patch pants. Adding patches to pants are a great way to extend the life of pants/leggings or pjs. They don’t just have to be functional either, make your patches super creative and adorable. Enjoy! AND… if you’ve done some creative patching, I’d love to hear your ideas too.
Creative Ways to Patch Pants –
Since I last wrote this post I’ve recently discovered these adorable iron on patches on Amazon… LOOK how many cute options for easy pants patching!!
ALSO…. Etsy has some adorable adorable pre-made patches…. Check out all these cute ones for great prices…
You can add patches to leggings before or after you make or buy them. These fun painted knees are perfect for adding a fun details AND making the knees stronger… Design Mom has all the cute details.
Here is another option for leggings… Vinyl!! I have a pair of my daughters that I am going to vinyl the knees tomorrow! Delia Creates made some cute ones!!
Small Fry Blog – Patch Leggings to make store bought leggings unique! AND they keep the knees lasting longer. When you play hard like my daughter leggings can wear out pretty quick.
There are some really cute patches making using some classic hand embroidery… here is an example from Design Mom
Make It Do – has a basic patching tutorial, with a cute girly touch
Honestly – shared a fun tutorial for covering a stain on clothes/pants
I love these DIY Moto Pants from De Smitten
Patching jeans with jeans is a great way to patch pants. Jeans make really strong patches and can blend in or really stand out. Here are some clever pants patches made from denim and looks super cute too…
Fun in the Making – Patched knees with jean pockets! So creative.
Superhero patches made from jean from The World Spins Madly On.
Cute Girly Patches from Shwin and Shwin
I Need a Craft Room shared a tutorial for these star patches.
This monster knee patch can be for boys or girls – Art Bar Blog
The Pearl Blog – Shared a tutorial for cute monster knee patches
One Hundred Dollars a Month shared a classic knee patch tutorial
You can use fabric patches of all kinds… decorative, padded, fleece, flannel and other decorative fabrics… These floral patches are more decorative then necessary, but adorable either way!! Find out how to make these cute pants.
Liza Jane Sews shares these padded knee pants for crawling babies. Add padding and a cute decoration.
I love these baby heart knee patches from Hello Natural, fleece on fleece… so so adorable!!
Pieces by Polly shared these cute Dino knee patches.
my son wore out his Christmas jammies on Christmas day, so I could have used this! Temporary Waffle shared this tutorial
I love this idea for leather patches from Ponoko
Here’s another cute leather patch with these kitty patches on leggings… these were put on before the pants were sewn up… add reinforcement before they start to wear out. Get all the details here…
Here are some other hacks for re-making clothes or making them last longer…
marissa | rae gun ramblings says
these are all so fun!!
Amber @ChiefHouseholdOfficer says
So cute. Love the monster patches.
Bonnie says
I love all of these creative ideas for a very common problem moms face.
~Bonnie
Evija says
Thank you for joining our Oh My Heartsie Girl Wordless Wednesday Link Party.. Amazing ideas, I love to repurpose, recycle and upcycle, so this is right up my street! Thank you for sharing! Have a great day, co-host Evija @Fromevijawithlove
Hannah @ eat, drink and save money says
Great ideas! I love the monster patch pants. What a great way to save money.
Thanks for linking up with Share the Wealth Sunday!
Shellie Bowdoin says
The patches are a great way to personalize. Thanks for lending your craftiness to Oh My Heartsie Girl Wordless Wednesday!
Shellie
http://www.thefabjourney.com
Anna says
I love these, especially the monster ones! My boys have several pairs of trousers with holes in and patching them seems like a better idea than throwing them out 🙂
Kimberly says
Hello beautiful! Great ideas. Pinned and tweeted. I hope to see you on Monday at 7pm because we love to party with you! Happy Memorial Day! Lou Lou Girls
Sonja says
Great ways to save a perfectly good pair of pants! Thanks.
Kristen from The Road to Domestication says
These are fantastic! Especially for moms with way active little ones! Thanks so much for taking the time to link up with us over at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope you had a wonderful holiday weekend, and that we see you again this Friday! Feel free to bring a friend 🙂
Patricia says
This is awesome, lots of great ideas for patching up those holes. This is always a dreaded moment for me and these fun ideas will make it more of an adventure.
When I was a kid I remember my step mom embroidering over holes in my jeans with flowers, those were always my favorite jeans to wear.
Sarah-Ann says
Such a fun post. I especially love the monster ideas. Thanks for sharing @ WW over on Oh My Heartsie Girl.
Sarah-Ann @ Living Intentionally Simple
Evija says
This is very creative, such a good collection of ideas, thank you for sharing and joining our Oh My Heartsie Girl Wordless Wednesday Link Party.. Have a great day, co-host Evija @Fromevijawithlove
Kelly says
Those little monster knee patches are ADORBS! I’d put those in my own pants on purpose, they’re so cute!
Thanks for sharing at the Pretty Pintastic Party 🙂
Crystal says
I love the monster knees. I will have to remember that for the fall when I get out the hand-me-downs!
Mrs. AOK says
I love this! Thanks for sharing these fun and creative ways to patch pants at Mommy Monday!
XOXO
Cathy says
These are all so cute and I bet the kids just love having these on their jeans. Thank you so much for sharing at Share It One More Time. Cathy
All that's Jas says
I remember my mom patching all of our jeans when we were kids. Thank you so much for sharing at Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop!