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Crafty: Embroidered Flowers Hide Holes in Denim

Thursday, July 17, 2025 3:42

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When I got out my shorts to wear on a hot day I noticed there was a hole in the denim. Rather than relegate them to things I’d only wear around the house, I decided to mend the hole and disguise it using embroidery, which is apparently a fashionable thing to do this summer.

You can see the finished result in the photo, with an inset picture of the original hole.

Here’s how I did it. First I cut out a small circle of other fabric to put behind the hole as a patch. Then I created a flower on the front of the shorts, around the edge of the hole, using what’s called lazy daisy stitch. This is a type of chain stitch, and here’s the basic instructions:

Thread a needle with an embroidery silk in whatever colour you like.
Tie a knot at the bottom of the thread and bring the needle through the fabric where you want the base of one of the petals to be.
Pull the thread through so the knot is firmly against the back of the fabric.
Make a loop of thread, then put the needle back into the fabric at the base of the petal close to where the thread emerged.
Bring the needle up through the fabric at the top of the petal loop and make a tiny stitch to hold the loop in place.
Do another petal next to the first, going round in a circle.

You can fill in the centre of the flower using tiny stitches, or make French knots if you are confident at sewing them.

After I’d mended and hidden the hole, I embroidered more flowers on my shorts to make it into more of a decorative pattern.

One of my resolutions this year was to blog about seasonal or witchy crafting every month. You could do a more witchy version of this decorative mending technique by embroidering pentacles, stars, or moon phase or goddess symbols instead of flowers – although flowers seemed seasonal enough for summertime.

There are more ideas for seasonal crafting in my book Pagan Portals – Rounding the Wheel of the Year.

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