Mug Rug

I finished a sweet little mug rug I made this month for an on-line swap. I'm not up to big projects yet but it was nice to revisit my sewing room for a bit.


I left the fringe of his scarf unattached for a bit of fun too.

Finished!

Yes, it's been a while since I actually finished anything crafty. But hey! Lookie here. I finally got something done. No doubt it's a small something, but a something none the less. I started this in the spring but I just couldn’t get myself to sew all those little straight lines once I’d started. Well, today was the day I tackled it without excuse. It’s larger then a mug rug, though I suppose it could be used for that. I originally intended it to be used kind of like a doily to put a vase of flowers on to keep any water off the nicer pieces of furniture in our home.

Bath Buddies and Mug Rugs

It felt good to get my crafty on this evening. Granted it was only a couple of hours worth but boy did I need it!

Snooky and I worked on a little project together: a bath-buddy. It's a little terry cloth case with a bar of soap inside for the bathtub. She picked out the yarn for the hair and the fabric, then she cut out the shapes of the face and glued them on with fabric glue. Once they were dry I stitched them down, made the case, let her put the bar of soap in and stitched it shut. She took a bath with it and could be heard singing a lovely little song about her bath buddy. I tried not to giggle too much.


I also made a mug rug with some Mendocino scrap fabric I had. I just can't bring myself to throw any of it away! Originally I had other plans for the scrap (to be posted about soon) but when I was cutting out the squares they all looked so cute together I couldn't help myself.



I even got a chance to work on my sisters quilt - Whew~ it's a beast to shove that thing through my little tiny machine. I had a wee bit of a chat with DH today about maybe seeing what we can do about getting a midarm in the house. Of course it's all pipe dreams at the moment but maybe later this year in the fall?

And I also made myself work on an old UFO as well as start cutting a new flannel quilt for my Dad. It's nice to rotate "jobs" while sewing. I'll work on cutting for 20 minutes, then sewing for 20, then quilting - wash, rinse and repeat.

I can't believe I haven't made a post in a month! This February has been just nuts. All of my free time has been devoted to other endeavors, like searching out a good elementary school for our daughter who will start kindergarten in the fall (lots of round-ups, open houses and applications), filing our taxes, working on the quarterly GIG newsletter, starting seeds for the 2011 garden, not to mention all the regular stuff that needs taken care of. Happily it's almost over. ;^)

I have spent exactly two hours in my sewing room this month so not a lot to show. I worked a bit more on my sister's quilt and I also started cutting out the fabric for the Love Bubbles quilt.


Just to show how busy I've been I couldn't even manage to finish a mug rug for the PMQG meeting.

I managed to get it pinned but nothing else! How sad.

I did manage to sneak out of the house twice this month on quilt related sojourns. The first to the February PMQG meeting. Those are always so much fun. I even won glue! I've never used fabric glue as a way of basting and with my curved piecing coming up it might be handy.

I also went to a local quiltboard.com meet-up this afternoon. It was really lovely to meet such a nice group of women! We had a fat quarter swap and there was a lot of show and tell. No one appreciates a quilters work like other quilters.

Top: Terry (Theresa), Mary (CrazyBaker), Me, Jen (sew cornie), Roxanne (roxannebcb)
Bottom: Karen (KarenBarnes), Laurie (quiltingnonie), Trish (trish b), Kelly (madamekelly)

Rug Mug

Well it was bound to happen sooner then later... my sweet little kiddo keeps breaking my coasters so I went and made a mug rug. Super fun and fast to pull together, especially since I used an extra block I had laying around.

Front


Back

Man am I dense.

As you all know kids tend to be rather destructive. When I was a whole lot younger (whole lot) I bought lovely marble coasters with cork "seats" to absorb the condensation of the glasses set upon them. Anywhoodle, the kiddlet has managed to break all but two now so I've been setting my drinks on the floor, holding them in my lap, etc. all while try to do stuff (like type on the computer, eat, etc.) without ruining the finishes on various pieces of furniture around my house. This, as you can well imagine, has lead to a whole lot of FAIL.

So I was thinking I'd buy some more from some where. Yet this seems so friv. Why does my budget not include funds for coasters? I was also thinking just yesterday that I have a whole lot of 8" wide (or so) scraps of batting down stairs and extra blocks for various quilts laying around doing nothing. Hum... *maybe* I should make some mug rugs. Yeah, I'm a regular rocket surgeon over here.

Now? It is a plan.