Erin at 'Two More Seconds' is hosting 10 days of mug rug madness. Now I have known about mug rugs but never made any, well Erin got me excited about these cute little quilts. Also a friend's birthday was coming up and she loves turtles, sooooo ta da.......
Two little turtles
I used Moda Spirit by Lila Tueller that I had in my stash.
Machine pieced, raw edge appliqued and quilted all in one afternoon.
I drafted the shape of a sea turtle and then re-traced the individual shapes, as in the head, body, two arms and legs - are they called arms and legs or flippers? anyhoo... onto card stock to use as templates.
I fused the fabic for the turtle shapes with paper backed fusible web and traced all the pieces, cut them out and then removed the paper and fused onto a strip pieced base rectangle of 9" by 6.5"
Freemotion outline stitching on all the turtle shapes and then made the quilt sandwich (you know layer the backing, batting with top and pin) and freemotion quilted the background. Trimed to 8.5" x 6" and rounded the corners, then added bias binding.
They were quick easy and fun to make!!
(blurry pics from my cell phone)
Now, I kinda like the idea of mug rugs!
Even in the heat of summer you can have some quilty goodness with you where ever you go!
Oh I LOVE the turtles! They are so cute! I'm so glad you were inspired to make some mug rugs. ;]
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