How To Repair A Hole In A Fabric Mattress

Look what I found; two holes in my cotton skirt. Holes too big to ignore or stitch up with a footling thread. And this brim, a Boden skirt, is too honey to me to throw away or use for parts. I wasn't sure how to patch it in a subtle fashion without having any matching material. Luckily I came upon this easy method in a book I own, "Mend it Meliorate" by Kristin M. Roach.

I've recently made a video showing both the how-to of applying the patch and too how to choose the best fabric to make a patch with.

Believe it or not, you lot don't have to have matching fabric to make a patch that blends in.

Applying the patch is easy and quick.

Supplies Needed:

Material for the patch
Scissors with a modest sharp blade
Fusible webbing. I use Pellon #807. Information technology'due south also called Wonder Spider web. Pellon #725 also works. It has a paper backing that you would peel off. And Stitch Witchery by Dritz could also work.
An Fe. Borrow one if y'all don't have one. You need an iron for this method of patching
A marker or pencil that can come off of fabric. I similar Frixion pens by Pilot. The ink disappears with heat.
Optional but great: Pinking shears. You lot know, the scissors with the zig-zag teeth.

The patch should be from fabric of a similar weight and exact intendance instructions every bit the garment. Bonus if it matches the garment only if not choose something that will blend in. You will be surprised, at a distance, how well prints volition blend into other prints so test a few scraps to run across what works best.

You're going for tonal value. If you accept to choose betwixt a patch a little besides light and a patch a lilliputian too night go with the darker patch. It will recede and therefore blend in better.

You can also apply sharpie markers to replicate a print design or to make a fabric a little darker or a slightly different shade of color. I prove how to practise this in the video.

Cut the patch a least i/4″ to ane/ii″ larger, on all sides, than the hole to be patched. Because I have ii holes shut together I am treating them every bit ane large hole and using i patch.

Round the corners of your patch. This helps prevent the patch from peeling off the garment in the laundry.

I use pinking shears around the patch to prevent the raw border from fraying just this is optional. When the patch is applied the fusible webbing should proceed the patch from fraying.

Cut a slice of fusible bonding web the same size as your patch. Fusible Bonding Web is the aforementioned thing as Run up Witchery but in a canvass form and not the narrow rolls that Sew together Witchery comes in. You can use the rolls of Sew together Witchery if your patch is smaller or you don't heed piecing a few pieces of it to cover the patch. I say if you lot already accept some, use information technology.

Lay the bonding web over the hole on the incorrect side of the garment and trace the outline of the pigsty with a pen, pencil or chalk, (or simply eyeball information technology). You are removing the bonding spider web where the hole is. You want to accept a 1/4″ of the bonding spider web left on all sides of the pigsty. I have close to 1/2″ of bonding web around the holes.

Lay the patch textile right side up, lay the bonding web on top of the patch and check that the edges line up. Trim any extra webbing off.

Brand certain the webbing is not larger than the patch AND clear away whatsoever cut-off scraps from your piece of work surface. You practice not want to get the webbing on your iron. It's glue in a sheet form. Information technology will melt and stick to your iron in a very messy way if you let it.

Here is a close-up of the hole in the bonding web. This volition line up over the holes in the garment so when information technology is attached to the garment but the patch textile will peep through. The bonding web is strictly the mucilage. You practice not want glue showing on the correct side of your garment.

Identify the bonding web on meridian of the hole in the garment so the cut out in the web aligns with the garment'southward hole and does non overlap it.

Flip the patch over, wrong side at present facing you, to lay on top of the bonding spider web. Line upwardly the edges of the patch with the edges of the bonding web. Follow the fusible bonding web or Stitch Witchery instructions for fusing the patch to the garment. It's unremarkably pressing firmly down on the garment & patch with a hot iron for a count of ten.

Considering information technology'south a very hot iron use a press cloth so every bit not to scorch your garment. I use a slice of plain cotton for a press cloth. Yous could as well utilise a plain paper towel, an old cotton T-shirt, or a cotton pillowcase. (polyester will cook)

If the patch doesn't stick, just printing it a second time.