Hey Everyone, welcome back to Mug Rug Monday.

This mug rug is actually last week’s mug rug. The week did not go as planned but never fear the mug rug is here. In fact this is the first I have touched my sewing machine in more than a week.

This little piece is based on my quilt pattern Shuffled Bricks only with a much smaller block.

I’ve used a light background and bold feature fabrics from the left over scraps of a previous Shuffled Bricks quilt to create this mug rug. I’m learning to use my scraps – only because they are coordinated.

My scraps

To begin I changed the size of the block to a 4 inch finished block in EQ7 so I would know how big to cut the pieces.

Pieces cut from the scraps

Then I sewed the background pieces to the feature fabrics.

Background sewn to feature fabrics

Sewing the above pieces together I created the blocks.

The blocks

And then the rows.

Rows created

Finally the rows sewn together to create the mug rug which is 8 ¼″ x 12″.

Mug rug made

A quick sandwich and I was ready to quilt. Well, once I added some pins to baste the three layers together and keep them in place.

Layers sandwiched awaiting pins

I really wanted to do free motion stippling and so I did because I haven’t done any for a long time. I only wish I had used a cream coloured thread as the one I chose is too dark and takes away from the graphic layout of the blocks.

Stippling done

When I quilt the larger version of this I will be using a light coloured thread and probably a more geometric quilting motif to accentuate the geometric design of the quilt.

Binding added and all ready for a cup of tea and yummy butter tart.

Mug Rug completed

Happy Quilting!