Mug Rug Swap Results

I received these mug rugs from Mary today.  They are so sweet.  The center piecing looks like weaving, and the squares are only 1/2 inch.  Amazing work!  I love the little scissors on the fabrics.  They will fit my interests just right!  Thanks Mary!

These are the mug rugs I made to send away.  I sent my partner one of the watermelon ones and the pink one.  The other watermelon one I sent to Lisa.  She is my friend from College days and after she sent me warm college memories, I thought I needed to send her a mug rug.

I hope you enjoy these little bits of sweetness.  Happy Sewing!

Mug Rugs in Progress

 I've been working on mug rugs for a swap.  Here I chose my fabric and sketched my design idea.

I cut squares and triangles.   The pink squares have crowns and jewels.  The recipient can be queen for the day!

I've sewn triangles to opposite sides of the squares.

And pressed them open.

Sew again,

and press.

I sewed them all together and it is too long.  But, I fixed that...

By adding borders half-way through the side squares.

Here it is ready to be basted.

I decided on my second one, to let the fabric speak for itself.

I will quilt them soon and get the binding on.  They need to be posted by Monday.

I think the trick for the square in a square is to pin the triangle in 3 places to keep it straight while being stitched.  I struggled a little with it here.  I'll try it next time.

Happy sewing!

I've had a Very Productive Week

I spent my spare time sewing this week.  I've been trying to get caught up on our Quilt Guild Block of the Month.  These blocks are intense, and have a lot of applique.  NOT my favorite thing to do...Applique.  Still I managed to get all of these done.

A filler block - star.

One basket - all applique.

Paper-pieced baskets all in a row.

A pieced basket with Applique flowers.

A row of flying geese...

And a close-up shot.

A pieced background with applique on top.

 And two checkerboard blocks.

Another basket...

and two more paper-pieced baskets.

Whew!  That was a lot of work.  Hopefully I can keep up with these for the rest of the guild year.

Now, to get a customer quilt done and then two mug rugs.  The mug rugs need to be mailed by Monday, February 14th.  I think I've got at least one design worked out.  It shouldn't be too bad :)

What are you sewing?