Hmmmm. Mug rugs for both mine and my husbandās coworkers, based off Kelly Hansonās p straightforward pattern. Which I finished around like. 1:45 this morning.
I learn more with each project I do and for this one I learned:
ā¢ if your husband buys you a nice pack of Moda sunburst batiks it really can elevate an extremely simple design to something special
ā¢ while itās not true FMQ, puzzling out different quilting patterns with the walking foot attached was genuinely fun and gives me more hope for when I make my QAYG Aliceās Wonderland
ā¢ I will genuinely bind a thousand tiny mug rugs before I force my poor Viking Emerald to chew through doubled-over felt again. Poor baby is getting the lint vacuumed out and a touch of oil and some rest before I use it to bind my husbandās quilt now that itās back from the longarmer
ā¢ the other problem with the āno bindingā method of mug rugs for me was the thread ends I left exposed after topstitching and quilting that I then had to bury. Making 30 of these meant that task took like 4 hours, especially because it took til very near the end before I figured out how to better reduce the number of ends I was leaving
ā¢ I should probably not give projects like this a deadline, and I shouldnāt tell a bunch of coworkers who are then excited about it, and I DEFINITELY should remember that I typically lose my marbles around January and need to account for the two week slump
