My First Mug Rug

MUG RUGS!!!    You know how we as scrappers started challenging ourselves years back to make a few cards from the scraps after we had completed a layout?   Well, I have discovered "mug rugs"!   Tiny little works of art made from fabric scraps.  I have challenged myself to make a few Mug Rugs after each quilt, but I'm not waiting until I finish a quilt before I make another one!   This is my first mug rug!

I am doing a Block of the Month challenge over at Little Miss Shabby's Blog.  I actually started when they were two months into it so I have some catching up to do.  So I sewed up all my blocks using this fantastic jelly roll that I picked up at HL.   Then I was reading about a technique of sewing crazy strips on freezer paper on a blog... I didn't have freezer paper so I used waxed paper... (I bought some freezer paper shortly thereafter!).   I wanted to make a mug rug and I had a special friend that helped me out recently and has been posting some fantastic photoshop tutorials on my online PAWS group.   So, my first mug rug  went to Jodie.   (Jodie is a great photographer and does awesome photoshop tutorials!)  

I need to get better at the corners -- or switch to circle mug rugs!    Likewise, I need to get better at quilting so my fabric points match up.    This weekend, I'm going to embroider the first three Birdie blocks. I'm also going to finish the binding on my quilt that I made from my Beginning Quilt class.   So more quilt photos are coming...

And see, Jodie is already using my mug rug...