Mending for Mudder

My mother wanted me to mend a hole in a pair of her jeans when she was here for Christmas, but I never got around to it until the other day.  I really don't know how to mend jeans.  Well, except for adding a fun patch to the outside and she did not want that.  Ugh.

So I took some blue fabric and used some of that double sided fusible stuff.  I fused it to the inside of the jeans and then  went bonkers with some zigzag stitches on the outside to take down all the stringy hole parts, like so:

And this is what it looked like on the inside:

Mom, you'll have to let me know how this holds up and I'm sorry if this is not what you had in mind.