What is a good strong fabric adhesive glue or spray I can use?

My husbands an electrician and his jeans have tears everywhere! I have tried ironing on patches but those came right off after some use. What I wanted to do is cut pieces from his old jeans to use as patches. Rather then sewing every tear/patch I want to use a good strong adhesive (either spray or glue) that bonds great with fabric, jeans especially. Any ideas?What is a good strong fabric adhesive glue or spray I can use?
I agree. If you want it to stay you have to sew it.


you could try Aleen's glue for fabric or FabriTacWhat is a good strong fabric adhesive glue or spray I can use?
Good question. I don't know of any glues that would work that strongly. Have you thought of using your sewing machine and ';darn'; the patch to the underside of the garment. It would be very secure.
Fabric glue (correctly applied) might work, but if you don't want to machine sew, you could maybe do other things to attach the patches:





...sew some ';tacks'; here and there by hand


...use rivets or perhaps eyelets in the corners at least... some can be placed through both fabrics using just a wood block inside the jeans temporarily





I agree that patching can be fiddly and time-consuming (!), but sewing really would be best.


HOWEVER, there are ways of stitching in a machine that *won't* require you to keep changing the orientation of the fabric as you sew that could help with the difficulty and tedium.





You'd want to learn how to do ';free motion'; quilting (also called free motion embroidery), which just means that you'd *lower the feed dogs* and then move the fabric (and the temporarily-pinned-on patch) around under the needle with your hands while ';stitching'; rather than allowing the machine to move the fabric (in a straight line in one direction, which is what it would normally do).


It's pretty hard to sew a straight line that way, but you could make intentional curved lines or even patterns once you get used to doing it that should look fine--and would make those patches very secure.





It can take a little practice to kind of know how to move the fabric at a steady pace, and how fast to go, but you'll get there pretty quick (and really all you really need is functionality rather than beauty) .





You can use a special foot to do free motion stitching, or just an open toed foot... also the more expensive the machine, generally the quieter and smoother the process, but any machine will do it with no special equipment.)





Check some of these sites for seeing what I mean by free-motion stitching on a sewing machine:


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu鈥?/a>


http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+fr鈥?/a>





HTH,





Diane B.

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