About a year ago, my husband started getting weird rips on the forearms of his work shirts. They weren't on the elbow like I expected. His coworker got them too. Maybe their desk edges were sharp? I have no idea. Jonah asked me to mend them, and it took me a while to actually sit down and mend them.
Here is what I did:
I started by trimming around the holes to get rid of frayed threads. These had been sitting around for a year and went through two moves. They went through a bit before getting some love. Then I cut out a piece of muslin to be the patch. Jonah really wasn't picky about how it looked, and by this point I just wanted them out of my project queue. I cut out a piece of mid-weight interfacing that extended about an inch around that piece of muslin.
Before putting it all together I ironed the sleeves so that they would lay flat on the patch. After that I slipped in the patch and ironed it on.
Once it was attached, I used 6 strand embroidery floss to blanket stitch around the hole to keep the fraying minimal and to actually sew the patch to the sleeve.
These patches are pretty noticeable. If you are going for a stealth mend, this isn't the method you would want to do. But it worked well enough, and it cleared out another project that had been sitting around far too long.
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