tutorial: grown up knee patches - Megan Nielsen Patterns Blog

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I love knee patches – and i’m so thrilled to see so many variations on the them in stores at the moment. I’ve been wanting to try knee patches on my own jeans, but i really didn’t want them to look too juvenile (like the patches i’ve put on my kiddos pants, see here, here and here). So i thought this might be a much more subtle grown up version of the knee patch. Denim on denim! I chose a patch that was slightly darker than my jeans, and i think that combined with the rectangular shape it results in a really great mature take on knee patches. I actually got kind of lucky when doing this project as i had recently fallen over some paving (i am so gosh darned co-ordinated) and ripped a […]