I appreciate the details, Wendy.

No its first time I've used it. I bought some to make pot holders.

No thermal stuff here !!

Okay, stupid question here.......do all mug ruggers use thermal batting in their mug rugs? I just thought they were made with a couple layers of regular quilt batting, like cotton or 80/20. Since a mug of coffee, tea, or coco is hot, but night right off of a burner, why is the thermal batting necessary?

Dawn

I put the thermal batting in silver side up but don't know if that's right. The rats tail cord is a satin cord, girls are made of feathers and mud!

I did lots of steps and detail after showing others how to do it and realising its the little instructions that make it go right.
Said simply it's trim piece. zig zag round it. zig zag on your trimming. Is that easier

PS: which side up? The silver side or the other side.? and I'll have to study up on 'rat's tails'. Nothing to do with your chicken's is it?

Thanks Wendy. For 'easy-peasy' it has a lot of steps!

Hope you don't mind, but I've copied them onto a Word doc for myself, so I don't have to scroll through 100's of pages of posts, and try to remember which topic etc.

pleased you like it. The inside is some thermal batting, one side is silver.

Edging tutorial - easy peasy. Taught to me by Carol Ann Waugh Craftsy class stupendous stitches.

1. Trim all layers to size.
2. Zig zag round edges starting half way down one side. Use thread to match front of piece and set stitch width to about 1.5 and length 1.75. Lower your top tension to 3.25. Keep the edge at the centre of the needle position. Whiz round all sides.
3. Trim any wayward threads
4. Choose edging yarn, rat tail cord or what you like. I used bias fairly loose woven cotton, it's almost scrim.
5. Choose thread to match trim and set stitch width to 3 , length 1.5.
5. Start half way down an edge and place edging next to edge of work but not on it, leave a 1" tail.
6. Position so join is in centre of needle positions so when you sew it'll pull both together.
Start zig zagging but don't put any tension on your trim. Don't worry if bits don't catch you can go over it again.
7. At corners drop needle into fabric or trim and pivot like a ballerina.
8. As you get to last side cut off starting trim at a diagonal and keep going till just past the start.
9. Trim your finish at an angle and done.

Wendy, I vote that you somehow post your know-how via something or a tutorial, so we can all learn how you make such nice edges. I love the one you sent to me. PLEASE??

Wendy and Geneva, your mug rugs are wonderful. I did explain the concept of a mug rug to my DH the other morning, and all he said was, "It must be a quilter thing." So much for enlightening him! Right now I just use a pot holder, but promise one day to jump in and do some trading. Oh........... I received a pot holder from a friend (she gave a few friends her practice sew outs of her digitized embroidery designs) and found it very useful on the very large harp area of my new sewing machine. When I'm doing small piecing I like my stiletto, scissors and few pins close by, and the harp is big enough to hold it all. The pot holder saves the surface of the sewing machine. (Doesn't work for larger sewing, as it is in the way then.)

Dawn

Yes I agree it's beautiful and yes Wendy and Geneva are both very talented!

Barb

It's beautiful, Wendy! You are both so talented!!

And lucky me! Look what arrived in my mailbox yesterday from Wendy!




And the back:





The quilting is so perfect, the edging really nice. I love the little bird and the fabrics. In fact, I think the little yellow dot is the same Kaffe fabric I used on your mug rug Wendy! And the log cabin block has a crinkling sound when I touch it. What did you put in there Wendy?

I'd really like to know how you did the edging. I'm just about done trying to do zig zag edge finishing. It seems I can never get it smooth and it sticks as I'm zigging. Wendy, your finish is really nice. Thank you so much!!!

geneva

Pretty mug Geneva, lucky Wendy.