A couple of months ago, I found a great charm pack (set of 5-inch pre-cut fabric squares) at Pacific Fabrics, one of my favorite fabric stores.  It was a pack of photo-realistic food-themed fabric.

My mother is a gardener, and this fabric seemed perfect for a Christmas gift for her, but I was stuck on ideas for how to use it.

Then I came across this fantastic charm-friendly pattern from Moda’s Bakeshop, and thought it was perfect!

Here’s the top so far (I’m still working on the border).

I should have taken pictures along the way, but I keep forgetting to take photos as I’m working on my projects!  I tried to go with a zig-zag rainbow color pattern and I think I more or less achieved it.  It was tough to implement simply due to the overwhelming lack of yellow and blue, but I like how it worked out (except for the white-value blocks in the lowest left corner, but that’s okay).

I think for the border, I’m just going to use more white fabric.  I bought some more food-themed fabric, but I think having a print on the border would just be overwhelming, so I think I’ll save it for the binding, instead.

This is my third Christmas project done!  (Pajama pants and another gift are the first two completed, but I forgot to take pictures of the pants and I’ll post about the other gift after Christmas so the recipient doesn’t get a surprise early reveal!)  Next projects in cue:  two more quilts, and one fasteners quiet book for little G.

Update: I just realized I made a modification to the pattern while piecing the rows so that there was more white together than in the original pattern. When I had laid it out per the pattern, I didn’t like the way it looked. The print seemed a little too busy. So I flipped the 2nd and 4th rows to match up white sashing pieces. I like the extra white space.