My favorite jeans played a supporting role in yesterday's post about Pitt pen lettering and were called out by a couple of sharp-eyed commenters.
So here, as promised, is the back story of how they came to be. As you can see, I wear my jeans a bit on the long side, a habit I acquired over 40 years ago and never let go ...
This particular pair of Levi's was a rare find ... a perfect fit in a soft denim. But after a couple of years, the knees shredded, leading me to patch them last March. Since then, they've been laundered repeatedly, but by and large the raw edges have held ...
The knee patches were necessary since the denim had already worn through, but I discovered that they didn't exactly lie flat ...
And so, realizing the thighs of the jeans were rapidly approaching the shred point, I decided to try stitch alone as the way to reinforce them. First vertically and horizontally ...
then diagonally ...
It worked ... and because the stitching was done in cotton floss, there is a softness that has a very appealing tactile quality.
So there you have it ... the beginning of my journey into a new way of looking at needlework not just as a decorative art, but as a functional one.
