Quick pant saver tip

My youngest son has several pairs of cute overalls with snaps along the inseams to facilitate diaper changes. As a mommy, I think little boy overalls are about the most adorable thing ever, and I wish they could wear them everyday. But my youngest son, like his older brother, is a rough-and-tumble, super active little guy. Those snaps stay closed maybe two minutes after I get him dressed, and so the overalls don't get worn as much as I'd like.

So this morning I got the brilliant idea that I could just sew closed the snapped inseams. Yup, took all of a minute to do, and now my son will be rocking his overalls as soon as I can catch and wrestle him into them.

stitches are invisible

Since I just top-stitched the snap flap (technical term!) in place, I used a multi-toned 'denim' coloured thread that blends in with the fabric. I don't have a free arm machine, so it was a bit of a tight squeeze to stitch the entire length of each leg, but with a bit of twisting and a couple stops to make sure I wasn't sewing the leg together, it was easy enough.