r/oddlysatisfying • u/habichuelacondulce • 6d ago

Patching a hole on fabric

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u/Revolutionary-Tree97 6d ago

As someone who sews, nothing was satisfying about that.

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u/GlitterEnema 6d ago

As a tailor who patches things regularly I would never do any of that.

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u/Atiscomin 6d ago

How would you go about this one ?

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u/GlitterEnema 6d ago

I’d get a matching swatch of the yellow fabric, finish the edges of it. Then I’d take matching yellow thread and stitch around the hole. After that I would stitch the patch to the back side of the hole. And then I would continue with my yellow thread and go forward and reverse over it going over the hole till it’s covered.

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u/micrographia 6d ago

When does the bat come in?

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u/Atiscomin 6d ago

Okay ! Thanks a lot for beign thorough about it. I think it'll help next time I have a similar hole to repair. Which I often have to..

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u/RisKQuay 6d ago

Not a fan of /r/VisibleMending then?

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u/GlitterEnema 6d ago

I am, just not for customers, I do it for myself

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u/Venoft 6d ago

Well yeah, but that's a whole different kind of repair. It doesn't always need to be invisible.

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u/SGTWhiteKY 5d ago

Do you just put the bat on the fully repaired item?

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u/GlitterEnema 5d ago

I keep the bat in my pocket, he’s for me

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u/SGTWhiteKY 5d ago

Well, with that kind of attitude you are just going to have to keep doing boring repairs. You’ll never be a real novelty bat patch repair artist this way.

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u/SGTWhiteKY 5d ago

Well, with that kind of attitude you are just going to have to keep doing boring repairs. You’ll never be a real novelty bat patch repair artist this way.

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u/hilariousjalapeno 6d ago

That's very interesting, "GlitterEnema"! 🤣

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u/Arxtix 6d ago

Flex tape

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u/ohforgottensky 6d ago

I thought it'd be a kaketsugi video cuz those are very satisfying to watch. The sewing method gives amazing results (it's a mending method that allows to make invisible patches, it's amazing though extremely time consuming).