How to Repair Ripped Fabric and a Torn Belt Loop on Jeans

By Debbie Colgrove, About.com Guide

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Sewing the Hole Closed

Debbie Colgrove, Licensed to About.com

Thread the sewing machine with the denim thread in the upper thread and bobbin.
Place the jeans, out side up, on the bed of the sewing machine.
Be sure that the threads of the original denim and the scrap of fabric are flat and in place.
Set the sewing machine to sew a wide and elongated zigzag stitch.
Stitch to hold the threads and patch in place. The amount of zigzag stitching will depend on the size of the hole, but you will zigzag just enough to basically "tack" the patch and threads in place, not to close the hole.
Set the sewing machine to a straight stitch.
Sew back and forth over the hole, horizontally and then vertically, to totally close the hole as if your stitching is new fabric with no gaps in the stitching.