20 Saturdays left.......

20 Saturdays left until what?

Until Christmas of course!

Time to start thinking about the holidays 

and get those projects started!

I ordered this darling table topper pattern 

from the Fat Quarter Shop

and was hoping to use Phenomenal Fall by Moda

but apparently when USPS said my fabric 

 was "out for delivery" on Friday...

they were only kidding.

Seems that no one really knows 

where my package is at the moment.

I didn't want to wait

 so I decided to bust out some of the random

Christmas charms I received last year when I took part

in a Christmas charm swap.

I grabbed 15 charms that looked good together

and cut them into 2 1/2" squares.

You can also use those darling little 

"mini" charm packs available now on etsy and ebay.

This pattern takes 60 squares.

I'm glad I made this one today as a trial run,

because the pattern doesn't specify what size binding

to use and I used 2 1/2".

I'll try 2" on the next one.

Because my binding was a bit wide, 

the scallops don't show as well as I'd like.

It was FTS (fun to sew) until I got to 

the binding of the little scallops.

Not so much fun as it turns out.

Pretty darn cute though when it's done right.

You can see that my binding is sadly lacking.......

I'm not throwing in the towel just yet.

I have 60 more squares cut out and ready

for round 2 of my little scallop binding adventure.

Wish me luck!