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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 15:08 #101083

Renata OFFLINE Posts: 2673 Thank you received: 260	Love the Shamrock Fish, Rita! and Lotti, aren't you lucky! Very pretty fabrics too!
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 14:30 #101081

rehak OFFLINE Posts: 2783 Thank you received: 458	Wonderful mug rug, Rita! You are a true artist and Lotti is a worthy recipient!! Nancy
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 14:27 #101080

suehenyon OFFLINE Posts: 1796 Thank you received: 51	Beautiful mug rugs, Lotti and Rita! Lotti, I hope Rita dyed the fabric instead of dieing it (killed it???) Sorry, couldn't resist. My children would say, aw Mom, you're such a teacher. I would like to know you like the DVD on treadles. I need it bad, but only if it's easy to understand and shows how to work a shuttle bobbin.
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 13:15 #101072

twiglet OFFLINE Posts: 3849 Thank you received: 546	Wow Lotti what a fabulous day. Your mug rug is so special, well done Rita and love the back
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 13:09 #101071

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am I being spoilt or what?
just got home from work and found two little packages in my mailbox...

in package one:
1. Captain Dick´s ´Beginner´s Field Guide to the Identification of Early Singers´
2. DVD of ´Restoring and Overhauling Treadles - Presentation by Captain Dick at Treadle on TOGA´

and....
drumroll please.........

in package nr. two
because a dear dear quilting sister remembered that i´m planning a blue quilt for myself - one nice day - when i´ve finished collecting all the blue fabrics i can find on this planet:

sorry - unlike what my ipad made of them, the colors are really beautifully blue - and the largest piece was died by rita herself - what treasures

and...

another back that anyone would be happy to show upfront, any time

and now ..... my darling, lucky irish fish:

and this mug rug even has specially marked places for the cup and the cake...

isn´t our dear rita wonderful?
i´m so chuffed - two fabulous mug rugs in two days - happy happy happy dance

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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 12:47 #101069

Reetzbobeetz OFFLINE Posts: 4193 Thank you received: 209
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 11:18 #101060

Sewdreamy OFFLINE Posts: 2009 Thank you received: 160	So Rita, I thought I had my mug rug for you all planned out, but after that visit with the Leprechaun of yours I may have to change my idea...
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 09 Apr 2013 02:03 #101027

Reetzbobeetz OFFLINE Posts: 4193 Thank you received: 209	Yes I use the finest tips too. And even if you never actually draw a picture on fabric they are great just as BJ says for touching up details on a quilt.
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 08 Apr 2013 19:44 #101018

Sewdreamy OFFLINE Posts: 2009 Thank you received: 160	I always get the finest tip, because that's how I use them. However, if you were going to do a lot of fill work, you would want the broadest tips.
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 08 Apr 2013 18:59 #101009

gynconnie OFFLINE Posts: 730 Thank you received: 27	Lotti, I hope your leg pain diminishes rapidly on your medication. Consider your mug rug a get well gift too! Rita, is your middle initial "B" ...for blarney?! What a great story!
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 08 Apr 2013 18:47 #101007

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Sewdreamy wrote:

I use the Pitt's Pens a lot...they are great for covering a little blob of thread on the back of your quilt--it just disappears from sight, for slightly changing the color on an embroidery that stands out wrong, for coloring along the edges of a raw-edge applique if made from a printed fabric so you can't see the lighter colored edge, for adding window pane frames on your house, for coloring in the stones on your stone path for your landscape quilt (see http://blog.bjfabricartist.com/2013/04/03/landscape-quilting--create-a-stone-pathway-9.aspx), for darkening the beard on your St. Joseph applique, for adding highlights and low-lights to your appliques...in short, I don't know what I would do without them. I have found that once I heat set them, they are very permanent. But you want to try them out first on your fabric, because the colors are somewhat influenced by what the base fabric or thread color is.

Betty Jo, how do you decide which tips/nibs to get for use on fabric?

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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 08 Apr 2013 16:19 #100992

Sewdreamy OFFLINE Posts: 2009 Thank you received: 160	OH Lotti, so sorry about your knee. Sending good wishes and prayers your way. Love the mug rugs. I have to make mine soon. Haven't even started yet.
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 08 Apr 2013 15:54 #100989

ritzy OFFLINE Posts: 2963 Thank you received: 82	Great story Rita!
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Re: Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style! 08 Apr 2013 15:51 #100986

Zarah OFFLINE Posts: 1526 Thank you received: 30	Those mug rugs are gorgeous. Connie did a great job. Lotti, I hope you can rest and sleep tonight
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