Hey Everyone, welcome back to Mug Rug Monday on Friday.
As promised, here is this week’s mug rug. This mug rug is based on my Railroad Tracks pattern.
I originally designed the quilt for the Toscana fabric line from Northcott a couple of years ago. It uses 35 colours in varying values from light to dark. Plus a few shades of black and grey as the background.
Railroad Tracks quilt
The mug rug is one block of the quilt and this time I used a totally different colour palette. I had a basket of 2 ½″ strips sitting on the ironing board and used three of them to create the mug rug.
One for the background and one for the railroad track.
The 2 ½″ strips
I had a bit of wastage since most of the strips had to be cut to 1 ½″ wide.
The railroad track was done as a strip set.
Part of the railroad track
Then sewn to the centre piece.
Strips sewn to centre piece
And the side pieces added.
Side pieces added
Then quilted with a variegated thread that matches the background fabric. Straight lines worked well with this design. And I have a few threads to pull through.
Quilting done
A choice had to be made for the binding – teal or blue?
Teal or blue for binding?
I chose the blue strip and here is the finished mug rug at 8″ x 9″.
Completed mug rug
Happy Quilting!
