Friday, November 16, 2012

Playing with Scraps


Like many bloggers I follow, I can’t bring myself to dispose of any but the tiniest of fabric scraps, and even that pains me.  So one evening recently when the house was quiet and I was too tired to concentrate on anything complicated, I pulled out my basket of batik crumbs and produced this little mug rug.  I used a technique described by Connie. 
 
It was very relaxing play time.  I've found, however, that I consistently struggle with binding small projects like mug rugs.  In this case, one of my corners is distorted and I always have a wrestling match with the final joining of the binding ends.  Some of the mug rugs I've received from others use a binding technique in which the binding is first attached to the back and then secured on the front with a decorative stitch.  I think I will try this method soon.

4 comments:

Diane said...

that is a beautiful little rug mug. I do dislike binding of anything (!) I've done the machine method on smaller quilts-for the speed factor but have yet to use a decorative stitch, which is a great idea.

Debbie said...

Very cute, Mary. Hate binding small things too, so I usually don't. Instead I sew the sides and turn them inside out--called "birthing"---and top stitch all sides. Call me lazy but it works for me.

Hilachas said...

That's a beautiful mug rug. I love crazy quilt patterns.

Frog Quilter said...

Scraps rule. Just found your blog and will be following you. Happy Thanksgiving.