One-Day Challenge

Let's see how much trouble I can get into today with this charm pack I bought at the weekend junk shop marketplace.

There were 42 5" charm squares in the pack, so I arranged 40 of them to make a coffee table topper for spring.

Sewing blocks helps me practice seam matching, too, at which I frankly suck. But this time I did good, with only one row noticeably out of whack (yes, that's good for me.)

I decided to go with this cream and white textural print for the backing, and batted and pinned it all together.

To keep this a one-day project I machine quilted the topper. I need to practice this, too, as someday soon I won't be able to hand-stitch anymore.

I've had this bright yellow quilt binding forever -- someone gave it to me, but I'm not a fan of this color -- and this seemed like the perfect project for it.

The final result. I'm pretty pleased that I was able to make this in one day without any trouble at all. :)

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