Add an invisible patch - PEP BB textile.straw.ipatch

I'd just like to say that this is very tricky to do on finely woven fabrics. A shorter needle with a larger hole would have helped, as would a needle-threader (it's on my shopping list, but I haven't been near a store that would have such a thing.)

This first picture shows the hole and the piece of material I prepared carefully to reweave below the hole:

I'm not concerned about the black on the prepared material, as it will not show at the end.

Two of the sides of the patch are actually blind-stitched on, because I could attach them to the collar and facing. This picture shows that step completed.


This next picture shows the early stages of carefully weaving the threads into the good fabric around the damaged area. The warp threads are noticeably thicker and harder to weave through.


Here I've completed the warp threads and almost done the weft threads, shown from the finished side:


Here is the completed patch. If you look carefully, I made sure I didn't end each thread at the same spot in an effort to disguise it better. There was no way I could go over and under every thread or I found the threads started breaking.


I feel I learned a lot even though I don't think it worked out perfectly. The clothing would have gone to rags if I hadn't repaired it - now it will get more use before that happens.

This technique so intrigued me that I found a holey scrap to practice it on.  It is a piece of cotton flannel with a printed pattern from some old janky pillow cases.  I followed the above videos as best I could and it turned out looking right.

I did not know exactly what supplies I needed going into it, so half way through I picked up some iron on adhesive (like I saw in the video) and also used an iron.  Thus, the supplies and materials photo is somewhat incomplete, but everything I used is pictured at some point.

The last two photos are the fabric before and then after the mend.  The shot of the mended fabric is from less than three feet away.

*Edit*
I removed the patch with adhesive on the back.  With heat it came off the mend totally clean.  While this sacrifices the strength of the patch, it is only a scrap to practice on and I am here for the badges.  Thanks for giving me the opportunity to fix my mistake.

I included a photo of removing the adhesive patch, front without adhesive patch, and back without adhesive patch.  The removed patch is in each photo to prove that it is no longer a part of the invisible mend.

UPDATE!!!  I got the adhesive off of the invisible mend in the previous post.  It got sent through the wash and this is what happened.  I was wrong, the video was wrong too I suppose.  Adhesive is not necessary to reinforce this patch.  The threads kinda got curly and frayed a little which helps the patch stay tight and in place.  Hopefully this is enough to get this BB approved after I got myself into a "sticky" situation with a simple mistake and misunderstanding.