Patching my husband's jeans: first pair, second round

What I did:

Before

Early in 2020, I had done a bunch of patching on several pairs of my husband's jeans. The jeans that I wrote about here "Patching my husband's jeans: first pair" now needed additional patches and machine darning. Throughout these "before" pictures, you will see safety pins, which I used to keep track of where I needed to mend. There were lots and lots of places where the denim had frayed or was about to fray and these photos show only a few of them.

closeup of pocket including coin pocket in jeans. Coin pocket is frayed and patch over pocket opening is coming off

Before: frayed coin pocket; the patch over the pocket opening was now coming loose.

Front pocket of jeans, showing fraying fabric at pocket opening

Before: fraying at the other front pocket opening

Back of jeans below pocket, with safety pin near frayed fabric right below pocket

Before: wear below one of the back pockets

back view of back top of jeans, with worn fabric all around visible

Before: somewhat worn fabric throughout the seat of the jeans

After

Closeup of pocket of jeans including coin pocket with multiple patches and darning

After: I sewed a patch over the coin pocket, re-sewed the patch over the main pocket opening, and reinforced part of that patch that was fraying, all the while taking care not to sew any pockets shut.

closeup of front jeans pocket and hand, showing machine darning at pocket opening

After: I used machine darning to prevent further fraying at the other front pocket opening.

closeup of back pocket of jeans, with machine darning visible just below the point of the pocket

After: interior patch and machine darning below one of the back pockets

seat of jeans with faint zig-zag lines where interior patches were sewn on

After: I sewed interior patches underneath most of the seat of the jeans. You can see my zig-zag stitching in this picture. Eventually, there will be more fraying at the seat, but at least the patches will prevent skin from showing through.

Inside view of the seat of jeans, between pockets, showing interior patches in contrasting denim applied with zig-zag stitching

After: here's what the seat of the jeans (between the pockets) looks like from the inside. Note the contrasting denim patches sewn on with zig-zag stitch. I used zig-zag stitching to prevent the patches themselves from fraying.

closeup of leg of jeans, with two external patches in contrasting denim bracketing a less visible internal patch (only the zig-zag stitched outlines of the internal patch are visible on the right side.)

After: There was some worn fabric on the front legs of the jeans, between two older external patches. I forgot to take "before" photos of that worn fabric. In this photo, you can see faint zig-zag stitch outlines between the two older exterior patches. That's where, to reinforce that worn fabric, I sewed an interior patch.