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I ended up hand sewing several patches onto my synthetic $100 MTB shorts just last week. No guides, and the process was excruciatingly long, but it turned out f

• aasasd 4y ago
  I think patching would be rather easy, for me. Slap two fabrics together, and then keep backstitching until satisfied. At least, I repaired some seams and didn't have any trouble. The problem is, putting a patch onto every hole is questionable aesthetically, practically and economically. But alas, even with straight-line rips, Youtube's answer outside of patches seems to be darning—and I understand the logic behind that solution, but I don't accept it as the final one. There's also one guy (at least) who stitches such rips in one pass without darning and with minimal bunching-up, but he somehow seems to put the thread inside the fabric, which so far is like magic to me.