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Hi, I'm Deborah DeMirza, and I'm at Deluxe, a resale clothing boutique in Eugene, Oregon.
And today I'm going to show you how to mend a hole in a pocket. So depending on what kind
of fabric I usually like to go with a similar kind of fabric. If it's very lightweight,
like the inner pockets of these jeans, then I like to use something that's similar. So
I've cut off a piece of fabric from another pocket that has similar fabric. And you can
do it a couple of different ways. If it's at the bottom of a pocket which it usually
is, you can just go ahead and fold the bottom of the pocket up and then stitch, zig zag
stitch all along there and that would mend that pocket. It would make your pocket a little
shorter, but if that doesn't matter to you that's a really quick fix. Otherwise what
I would do is just cut out a piece of this fabric or the other thing you can do is I
cut the bottom of this pocket off. I could actually - if this is all worn out and you
don't want to really shorten it - you can just slide this other pocket where the hole
is onto this other shape that's very similar. And then you could just go ahead and sew that,
of course you'd have to go inside the pocket and make sure you don't sew through it, and
then I'd again do a zig zag stitch there to keep it from unraveling and go all the way
around that pocket and that's another way to reinforce maybe very thinned out fabric
which happens a lot in pockets. And you can just kind of a new section on there. Or what
you can do is just cut out a piece of fabric in here and then just apply it on here and
then go around this with a zig zag stitch, and that would be another quick fix. And that's
how you can mend a pocket.