Rita,
The designs and the quilting on those two mug rugs are beautiful. Love the border quilting Danny did, and Renata's feathers are wonderful and really stand out with the pebble quilting in the background. Inspiring for sure!

Great looking rugs! Wow!

Glad you like them, Rita. Just don't look at the back of mine ! Thanks, Nancy--the incredible quilting on the mug rug you made for me inspired me to try more! and of course, after the CW quilt, I lost my fear of quilting! Long way to go but lots more confidence now...

They are both incredible!!

Nancy

I received these two beautiful mug rugs in the post yesterday. This one is by Renata - look at that feather! And those pebbles and the narrow lines of the border! Beautiful fabrics, quilting design, binding.


And this one was made by Renata's sister Danny who is also a member of TQS. The applique is done in wool. This too is beautifully quilted - probably a thread that runs in the family. Isn't that sheep just the cutest?
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I really love them both thanks so much stitchin' sisters.

Oh Terrie, we have to ease in this new lounge lizard gently, right!

And don't forget, I'm a German living in the UK. Our cookies are called biscuits and they tend to be a lot smaller than an American cookie.

I have three muggies that are going to fly on Monday. One is square, and two are rectangular, and one lounge lizard is going to get mail from me and won't expect it. You could easily fit four single malts on that one.

Lorchen, Just be honest and tell him how big your cookies are

"Hi Mathew, no the mug rugs don't have to be any size and the design is entirely up to you. It just needs to be big enough to put a mug and a cookie on."

Rita is right, Mathew (as always). The mugrugs I make seem to decide themselves what size they want to be during the process of being made. And they all (made by me or received from other lounge lizards) get tested for suitability with a glass of single malt.

Lorchen and Matthew,
Your mug rugs will be in Monday's mail so you should have them within the next few days/weeks.

I have just received a beautiful mug rug with terrific FMQ on it from Renata. I will post a photo as soon as I can.

Thank you Renata.

Hi Mathew, no the mug rugs don't have to be any size and the design is entirely up to you. It just needs to be big enough to put a mug and a cookie on.

Just a quick question for the regulars. Do the mug rugs have to be a certain size or pattern. And I will start making my mug rugs as soon as i get my machine

Thanks. I probably have lots of orphan blocks that would work for mug rugs, but they will have to wait. Tomorrow is the last day of a 3 day retreat with the quilt guild, then it's back to other things. I put bindings on 2 quilts (still need hand sewn to the back though), finished the Sunshine & Shadow quilt top for a friend and prepared the backing and binding. The quilting will have to wait until later. Now I'm working on the Christmas quilt from the 2011 BOM. I have 5 narrow borders (3 of them are only 1/4") that will be sewn together then mitered. Then I will add the next pieced border which is already finished. The final border will have to wait awhile as I know I won't have time for it tomorrow. At least I have all of the strip sets ready for it which I did at the retreat last January and the paper piecing templates have been printed since then too. I was so glad to see they were already done so I wouldn't have to remember how I was going to do it. Also I found a note saying to use yo-yos instead of circles. I would have forgotten that idea too. I think I will make a practice one now to see what size they need to be for the 1-1/4" border.

Very pretty Annis! And I too wish you had the time to join us in the mug rug exchange. If you decide you have time, some time later--I will exchange with you.