Keep in mind--each corner is being covered twice with each stitch width.

Thanks Ritzy, I will have to give it a try now.

Makes total sense to me, Ritzy, thank you! Now I just have to get home to a sewing machine! I'll let you know if I have questions after I try it. It is another very pretty way of finishing a mug rug.

OK ladies, here is what you need to know:
First of all, I use this stuff called Pel-Tex(it may be Tim-Tex across the pond) instead of batting when I make my mug rugs. This makes them nice and firm, so making it easier to get a nice edge(but even without it I do my satin stitch the same way).

When doing my SS, I start with as setting of 2 for stitch width. I make sure the needle is hitting outside of the edge of the fabric and I start with the needle inside the fabric as close to the top edge as I can(without eating up the fabric in the feed dog). Then I stitch until I am all the way to the bottom edge ending with the needle off the fabric.

I realign the corner of the fabric with the needle on the outside of the fabric and stitch to the bottom again. I do this on all four sides. If I have threads sticking out, I trim them and start all over again with at stitch width of 2.5.

If I have good coverage(sometimes the weight of the thread does not cover as well as I would like) I end back at where I started and tuck all thread beginnings and ends in a needle and run them through to back of the satin stitching. Then, on the back side of the fabric, I use Fray Check on the corners.

Any more questions--let me know and I will try to answer. Oh, and if I don't have good enough coverage, I do it all again using a stitch width of 3.

One more thing--I think the reason I get a pretty good satin stitch is that I make sure the needle hits off the fabric when it hits on the right-hand side.

Reetzbobeetz wrote: Yes, yes, Ritzy, brief tutorial on how you do your satin edge stitching, please! I'd love to learn how to do it too!

Vicki...I see you responding here..still have not gotten a mailing address for your Mug Rug....
Please send An email by using the icon under my picture and profile. Sorry for the topic
jump ! Love those Ritzy Rugs !!

More fantastic mug rug Ritzy. I would love to know how you do those satin stitch edges too. Any time I try to do that the machine just eats up the fabric at the corners.

Ritzy and Lorchen~ MRs out to you today.

Wow Ritzy they are amazing

Nancy and Cathy, what great mug rugs from Ritzy. I'm inspired, can't wait to get back home and start making mug rugs again!

Ritzy,

Another beautiful mug rug you sent to Cathy. I still can't figure out how you do the edges. Are they done on a serger?

If I can stop laughing long enough I will try to connect the camera to the computer and upload the photo of the mug rug Ritzy sent to me. I keep envisioning a mr with little plaid boxers hanging from a clothes line. Now if I could only find some very small plaid fabric.

No idea what you are all on about...... I'm really a good girl (but with a fertile imagination).

Lotti, look again at my mug rug