OCC & Butters get my attention

 

I've been busy making shorts for the last couple of days.  I still have 10 more to make.  These are easy shorts to make from t-shirts.  I don't use elastic in the waistbands, but instead I use a t-shirt strip for a tied waist.   I secure the tie with a couple stitches in the center back of the waistband. 

These are for Operation Christmas Child boxes and the shorts are for the little guys.  I like to use up as much of a t-shirt as possible... the drawstring bags on the right are for the little guys also.  It's a size they can handle to carry some of their little treasures, made from the sleeve of a t-shirt.  

Did I say that my serger makes the process come together very quickly and it also makes a nice finished seam.  One of the benefits of the serger for these little bags is I did not have to cut beforehand... the serger cuts as it sews.  Because it is the sleeve of a t-shirt, the hem on the sleeve is the channel for the drawstring.  I just need to make two small slits on either side of the seam.  It is on one leg of the shorts and the tiger is very cute.  It isn't often that I can find a shirt with a logo or design I can use on a pair of shorts, but the little tiger seemed perfect for this project.

Butters is keeping close watch on what is going on.  I can always count on having company while I am at work.  It's not so bad when she is on the other side of the sewing machine, but she often likes to get between the machine and my face.  Fortunately she only persists for a couple minutes before she retreats to her little basket by the window at the other end of the sewing machine.