I am having a blast with my new embroidery/sewing machine!  It’s been sitting in its box since I received it because I didn’t have room to set it up until I moved to my quilt studio.  For my first project, I made an embroidered and quilted mug rug…then thought of all sorts of people I wanted to make one for.  I might even make them for imaginary people, it’s that much fun!

Ahem.  On with the show….errr, tutorial!

Supplies

• Fabric for embroidery
• Stabilizer for embroidery
• Scrap fabric for borders, backing & binding
• Batting

Tutorial

Cut the fabric and stabilizer for the embroidery about 2″ wider than your embroidery hoop.

Insert your fabric and stabilizer into your embroidery hoop, pulling the fabric so that it does not have any puckers or wrinkles on it.  Secure it in the hoop and tighten the hoop so the fabric does not move around.

Set your hoop up in your embroidery machine and choose an embroidery pattern.  Then, let the embroidery machine do all the embroidery work for you!

Once your embroidery machine is finished, remove your fabric and stabilizer from the hoop and press flat.

Square up your embroidery and trim the excess fabric away.

Using fabric scraps, cut the left and right borders to your embroidery to whatever size you’d like to make your mug rug (adding in your seam allowances).

Sew the left and right borders to your embroidered center.

Press your left and right borders toward the scrap fabric.

Repeat the same process with the top and bottom borders.

Press and lightly starch the finished mug rug top.

Create your quilt sandwich with your embroidered top, batting and backing.

Securely pin your quilt sandwich.

Machine quilt your mug rug in whatever pattern you prefer.

Trim your mug rug so that the top, batting and backing are all the same size.

Prepare your binding and bind your mug rug.

Congratulations!  Now you have a lovely mug rug to use or gift to someone!

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