Charm Pack Quilt Top Done and some Knitting Progress

 It's been a busy week here--we are having our three bedrooms painted this coming week and then new carpeting will be installed in mid October.  This means that everything must be moved out of all of the bedrooms and closets.  This has resulted in lots of purging and trips to the thrift store to donate items we no longer need. Lots of work, but all of our efforts will pay off in the end.  I did take a few sewing breaks this week and managed to finish off the charm square quilt top.  I made this quilt by the "design as you go" method, letting the quilt tell me what to add next.  If you look closely, you can see that I had to add narrow strips around the centre stars to get the four patches on point to fit properly. 

I had just enough green fabric to do this with just a few bits leftover for the scrap bin. 

I toyed with the idea of adding a 2.5" brown border around the outside of the quilt. 

I used up every single charm square in the two packages on this quilt and had to get creative to finish off the top and bottom borders as you can see below. 

In the end, I achieved my goal of using up the two charm packs and using only fabric in my stash to make the quilt.  I went hunting for backing fabric and found a couple of pieces that I will creatively piece to make the backing.  There is just enough brown fabric to make the binding.

I added some more rows of knitting to the snow person.  I noticed my dinner plate has a knitter on it too! The pattern is called "Naif" by Villeroy and Bosch.  She looks like a much more experienced knitter than me... Her yarn bowl holds a lot of wool!

My daughter's Dubrovnik cross stitch looks like it will soon be done!

Finn says sunbeams are the best place for a nap. 
 

A friend is organizing a UFO challenge and several friends have added their names to the list of participants.  I made a list of my UFO's--22!  There may be more lurking somewhere, but this will do for now.  We are going to finish one UFO per month for the next year.  I am hoping I can whittle down my list to a more reasonable number!  The first one up is the charm square quilt at the top of this post.  I hope to have it quilted, bound and labelled in the next couple of weeks. 

I will link up with Kathy and the slow Sunday Stitchers in the morning. I hope to do some more knitting tomorrow. It would be nice to have the snow person done before the snow flies!