Hey Everyone, welcome back to Mug Rug Monday.
Last week I made the sparkling snowflake mug rug and I had lots of pieces left over from the curved checkerboard so I had actually made a second snowflake mug rug. I didn’t want to waste the pieces I had created and I didn’t want them sitting around waiting to be used either. I figured why not make the reverse of the other snowflake. A set of snowflake mug rugs.
As I said last week if I could do it again I would use white batting. Unfortunately, the piece was already quilted on unbleached batting and I wasn’t ripping out the quilting.
The mug rug not looking quite right
I used the white fabric with the silver glitter for the snowflake. Such a pretty fabric – one of those ones that I wish I had a never ending supply of.
Glistening white snowflake
After quilting the background I fused the snowflake in place and stitched the edges with a satin stitch using a variegated grey sulky thread. Love the thread.
Stitching done
But I didn’t really love the look of the whole piece so I set it aside and didn’t finish it. Something was missing.
This week I picked it up again since I had an idea of how to fix it.
I thought I would just cut off the side pieces and have the curvy checkerboard background with the snowflake making a smaller mug rug. It looked okay but still not quite what I was looking for.
Borders removed
Then an idea came to me to add more quilting to the edges by continuing on the curved piecing from the middle section. I set up my machine for bobbin play with the Razzle Dazzle thread and started stitching. That gave it the finished look I was wanting.
Horizontal quilting lines added in the borders
Adding the white fabric as binding the snowflake mug rug is now complete.
Bound and ready for use
Here is the pair of them. Uh-oh one is larger than the other. I forgot I had trimmed the other one down a bit. Too late now to fix it.
The snowflake mug rugs
Happy Quilting!
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