Repairing a down jacket - best method?

I have a quarter sized half-moon rip in the nylon of my Eddie Bauer Downlight jacket.
My wife is a great seamstress and has offered to use some thread to sew it up. Is this the best repair method for such a coat?
Thanks for your suggestions!
Scott

Tight stitches will work fine.  The common alternative is Tenacious Tape.  Dirtbag alternative is duct tape.

A lot of places sell these kinda patch kits, worked for me on several patches for several years.
https://www.rei.com/product/846492/gear-aid-tenacious-tape-patches

Try fabric glue.  Most fabric glues are permanent and machine washable.  You can stitch it after you apply the glue if you want to reinforce it, but the glue should be adequate.  I have used this method on smaller rips on the same type of jacket and it has worked well.

If you patch it with Tenacious Tape or another sticky patch (I think Gear Aid makes a GORETEX one in addition to Tenacious), remember to cut the patch into a round shape. Corners catch and pull off eventually!

Gorilla Duct Tape is the best method

Thanks all!

I put a crampon point through an Eddie Bauer jacket a few weeks ago, and they exchanged it for me without blinking. Just throwing that out there...

Jared Chrysostom wrote: I put a crampon point through an Eddie Bauer jacket a few weeks ago, and they exchanged it for me without blinking. Just throwing that out there...

I used to work at Eddie Bauer in retail> when a customer sent a jacket back like this we were forced to destroy it(cut it into pieces) and throw it in a dumpster. Not even employees could take it home. Consider that you might get yourself a new jacket but its pretty wasteful in practice.

Tenacious tape is great for this. 

Tenacious tape is the best fix. I sew for a living and I don't bother with sewn fixes for my down gear.

But don't get the clear tenacious tape, it's stiffer and will peel sooner.

Nick Smolinske wrote: Tenacious tape is the best fix. I sew for a living and I don't bother with sewn fixes for my down gear.

But don't get the clear tenacious tape, it's stiffer and will peel sooner.

Interesting to know that. I have some sitting around from patching a tear in a REI tent "window" on a vestibule. I'll be sure not to use it on garments. 

I used something similar to tenacious tape, and took it a step further.

I used two tenacious tape (stuff one tape on the inside of the tear where the goose feather are at, and another tape on top of the tear).  This way it will form a very good bond and the goose feather cant escape.  

Here is a video of what i mean 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGraImaClOg