Elbow patches | Marga Mends

Date:

Pre-2020 through 2021

What I did:

Mend

Before

My client had several plaid shirts, all with rips near the elbows.

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Plaid shirt with not very visible rip in elbow, on coat hanger outside — I forgot to take "before" photos of every shirt, but here's one. If you look closely, you can see some loose threads on the left sleeve; that's where one of the rips was.

Rip in plaid shirt, closeup, with hand indicating rip — Before: closeup

closeup of rip in sleeve of plaid shirt — Before: another closeup

After

I patched each shirt with obround shaped elbow patches in a brown fabric. The model in the pictures below is my husband, who conveniently wears the same shirt size as my client.

back view of purple plaid shirt with elbow patches, modeled by man — After: shirt #1 with elbow patches

back view with elbows bent of purple plaid shirt with elbow patches worn by man — After: another view of shirt #1 with elbow patches

back view with of red plaid shirt with elbow patches, worn by man — After: shirt #2 with elbow patches

back view with elbow bent of red plaid shirt with elbow patches, worn by man — After: another view of shirt #2 with elbow patches

back view of blue plaid shirt with elbow patches, worn by man — After: shirt #3 with elbow patches

back view with elbows bent of blue plaid shirt with elbow patches, worn by man — After: another view of shirt #3 with elbow patches