The Mug Rug Project

Last October, I asked my mom, sister, aunt, and pen pal to send me pictures of their favorite mug. I planned to make them all mug rugs. I had seen mug rugs popping up all over Flickr. According to the Scrappy Mug Rug Swap Flickr group, a mug rug is "an oversized coaster for your mug or glass or cup and has room for a cookie on the side! It can be any shape or size." My goal was to make a mug rug to match their mug using only fabric from my stash. This turned out to be an interesting challenge since I didn't know what they'd send.

Clemson Clothes

Zack likes orange, so my parents sent him an orange sweatshirt for Christmas. However, since my dad bought it, it fits me better than Zack. I decided to convert it to a Clemson sweatshirt by adding iron on letters:

I also updated this converted fleece:

It really needed a zipper to make it useful, but sewing through the zipper and the orange bias tape was not working, so I got rid of the bias tape. Now that it zips, I will actually wear it.

Blue Crazy Nine Patch

This was my last quilt of 2010. I finished it on New Year's Eve. I made two sets of crazy nine patch blocks in January of 2010 and have only finished one quilt so far. This one is a surprise birthday present for my aunt.

This is one of my favorite quilt backs so far because of how nice the quilting looks.

Finished size: 39" x 54"

Baby Bag

I bought some baby gifts at Target for a co-worker, but I neglected to buy any gift packaging. I decided I wasn't going back to Target, so the baby boy fabrics I bought before Christmas came in handy. Fortunately I had some coordinating fabric and trim on hand.

Finished size: 8" x 8" x 8.5" tall

Scrappy Mini

I pulled out scraps of these fabrics awhile ago for a mini project. I was pleased that I found scraps of them all. I wanted to combine these particular fabrics because they show up in this combination in my scrap quilt, and I really like them. They just make me happy.

This is why I don't hand quilt anything:

Finished size: 3.75" square