First Finish!

I have three goals for this long holiday weekend, and I've finished my first project.

Here's my mug rug for a very dear friend.  It's from Anni Downs' Simple Pleasures.  I didn't realize how small the rug looked with the big mug on it!

I hope she likes it.  

Finally got to use one of my new labels

Happy Memorial Day weekend, my friends!

Elisa

p.s. Do any of you have this problem?  My patchwork princess, Ginger, is so determined to spend time with me in the quilt room (excuse the mess!) that she perches on the back of my computer chair like a vulture.  She cracks me up!

First Scraps

Ok, new to this world, but I have SO much to share and I hope this will keep me motivated. Forgive me as I take my first wobbly steps.

Recently a friend's mother made me an awesome knit hat - first one in 40 years that doesn't pop off my head! So, I needed to make her a nice thank you gift. Homemade, of course!

It's a mug rug.  If you missed the trend (like me), they are literally mini quilts you can make/give away where you can sit your coffee, tea, or cocoa mugs. There's even a Flickr group out there.

So, I drafted my own design, took to my machine and made 3! (Gotta have one for myself, you know!)

I went with 6"x10". I designed the "mug" pattern from some clip art I came across. Although you don't have to, I used some leftover scraps of Insul-bright heat-resistant batting (used to make mini ironing board covers).

And I bound it using an all-machine binding technique found on That Girl That Quilt blog: That Girl Machine Binding. I liked that technique but need to work on it. Corners were tricky at first.

Sorry if the pic is a little dark. This rug was my first one - I think they got better as I went along. I'm going out tomorrow to buy some pretty little spoons and Tea bags to make up my care packages.

Thanks for listening...