Sew Controlled Cuts in Jeans

As crazy as it seems manufactured jeans with holes and cuts cost more every year. Don't throw away a pair of jeans when they get an accidental cut or rip, instead control the rip and let it be a "designer element" in your pair of jeans.
Take a washed out pair of jeans and deliberately create these cuts to bring the jeans in to the latest style.

Here's how:

• Cut a small piece of fabric (muslin or other light weight fabric) that is larger than the cut, rip or hole.
• Line up the patch on the inside of the jeans under the cut, rip or hole.
• Use thread that matches the denim, and sew close to the edges of the rip, cut or hole.
• Sew again just outside the first stitching to reinforce the patch.
• Sew inside the first stitching to reinforce the patch until you are happy with the effect, remembering that any un-sewn edge is going to fray