Faulty Fashion: Stitch holes up and conceal the thread

Got a hole in your favourite shirt?
The jeans you love so much ripped apart?

You don't have to throw it away. There are many ways to fix your clothes easy and fast.
As in this post, simply stitch the hole together and then conceal it using one of many options.


Faulty Fashion is a series of posts to help when your clothes have flaws.
So far this includes the following posts:

• Stitch holes up using thread as embroidery
• Stitch holes up and conceal the thread (you are here)
• Cover holes with (selfmade) patches
• How to make small shorts bigger
• Shortening your jeans using the original hem (coming soon) 

Stitch the hole up and conceal it

With a pearlmaker pen

Pearlmaker pens are very easy to use. Just paint and let it dry. They usually need no ironing and can be washed and ironed. If you don't know them, they are like this one. There are quite some colours available.

This method is as simple as it can be. Just paint!
You can either paint free what comes into your mind at the moment. Or print out a motif, cut it out, trace it onto the fabric and follow the lines.

There are two ways for using a pearlmaker pen. One, you actually conceal the hole by painting over it. Two, you use the stitched up hole as a special mark of your motif.

Here's what I've tried so far:

This shirt had one hole at the bottom and now has 3 snails painted on it! 

The first snail is where the little hole was (see the thread?)

And for fun I added another snail (no hole here) 

And then I added another snail

Here the hole is now the pupil of the cats eye

And here the stitched up hole is now the cats nose

How do you deal with holes in your clothes?