Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Mug Mats

I've been dividing my time between sewing for the upcoming Nov. 7 bazaar and a t-shirt quilt I've been commissioned to make. I'm not quite ready to show pics of the t-shirt quilt, so I will show you the mug mats I made yesterday.

It seems like I have a ga-zillion orphan blocks. Do all quilters have this dilemma? It occurred to me that I could very quickly amass a nice stack of mug mats by cutting a backing and a batting, sewing the whole business together, turn and topstitch. Easy stuff. So in very short order I have 8 mug mats ready to go. These are all over 6 inches square - mostly 6.5 inches. Nice way to use up scraps of batting, and it gives purpose to all these orphan blocks cluttering up my room. I expect I will be making more.

Happy Quilting, Friends!

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  1. MaryOctober 28, 2015 at 10:41 AM

    Duh, why didn't I ever think of that? Wonderful idea

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  2. sewyouquilt2October 29, 2015 at 3:29 AM

    great way to use them up. I am trying to use my orphans in a border but that idea will have to steep for a bit.

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  3. tink's momNovember 1, 2015 at 1:51 PM

    Nice work, great idea.

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  4. KateNovember 1, 2015 at 8:51 PM


    Good idea and they should sell quickly!

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