Yesterday I decided to join the 'mug rug club' and had a go at making myself a mug rug from one of 'Handmade by Alissa''s designs on her website. I shamelessly stole her pattern and colour ideas, but as "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery' I thought that she probably wouldn't mind! As this was such a small item, only 6" x 8", I drew the design onto a piece of copy paper and used the paper piecing method to make this.
I'll definitely make another one - and use my own design - as it took me less that 2 hours to cut, sew and quilt the 'rug'. I bound it in the usual way, handstitching the back with a slip-hem stitch, but I think next time I will use the self-binding process and see if that works any better.
