I've had these cargo pants for a really long time and I can't seem to part with them. The waist band has had holes in them for a while, so I brought them in for our sewing demo recitation. The waist band was mended with hand sewing and machine sewing.
For hand sewing I used a floating stick in a light gray. It was fine with me to have stitches showing as I felt it went with the look of the pants.
For machine sewing I use black thread on the top and in the bobbin. I used a zigzag stitch set at 3.5 x 3.5 and just over lapped the hole and sewed over it.
















