Mug Rug

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.

How time flies

Another month gone by since I last posted. I'm still working on echo quilting each of the 'logs' in my log cabin quilt - it's going to take quite a bit of time to do it. And I still haven't decided on a name for it yet.

I have also been working on a child-size hourglass quilt made from Sandi Henderson's Meadowsweet range of fabric, together with white Kona fabric. I can't seem to get a good full-size picture of it as all the photographs look 'washed out', but you should get an idea of what it looks like from this one.

Log Cabin in Green and White

I'm seeing a bit of a common theme in these quilts of mine - namely all of them so far have been blue and/or green! This next one's no exception. It's nowhere near finished yet; only the top has been pieced. The backing needs to be found (so a trip to the fabric store is called for very soon) and then quilting and binding. I think I'll echo quilt this one by hand. The quilt has been folded for a month or so and the pictures here do show the fold lines, but I thought I'd show you it as it is so far:-






100% cotton Kona solid fabric in various greens, and white; machine pieced; measuring approx. 54 inches

And I need a name for it too.

Whoops! Spot the mistake! I've just realised that one of the spiral blocks is the wrong way round! I'll have to sort that out before quilting it.