Summer Solstice - Mug Rug #24

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Mug Rug Monday on Colourful Friday.

I’m playing catch up with my weekly mug rug posts. This is last week’s post – mug rug #24. Only 2 more to go and I am half way through my challenge. Woohoo!

The other day when I was working on my Stitch Along Sunday piece I had an idea for a mug rug to represent the summer solstice and what better way to represent it than with a sun. The longest day of the year with the most amount of daylight. I am always sad though when the longest day of the year arrives and I know it is on a slow decline to less and less daylight.

I created an image in a program on my computer that had different shapes I could group together to make the image I wanted to represent the sun.

Sun image

I initially picked a green fabric for the centre of the sun but then when I had it all layered together I didn’t really like it and changed the centre fabric to an orange hue.

Original fabric selection

I’ve used a complementary colour scheme of blue and orange to create this little mug rug. My favourite colour combo I might add.

After drawing out my pieces on fusible web I fused them to the fabric and picked some threads for the stitching from Robison-Anton. These threads are made from a shiny rayon so will stand out.

Thread selection

I stitched the pieces down with a free motion satin stitch. Initially I had picked threads that almost blended in with the fabrics and then changed my mind to have ones that were darker and would contrast nicely with the fabrics creating a nice crisp edge around each shape.