Mug Rugs

Because life can throw us curveballs, I try to never leave anything to the last minute.  These mug rugs will be part of Valentine's gifts for each of my daughters.  One is a reader and had a pet rabbit when she was a teen; the other has a love affair with foxes.  These will be given with a coordinating mug and other gifties.

The book is paper-pieced, it's a free pattern from Kate Basti called Tall Tales Quilt Block  For the fox, I shrunk the Fancy Fox pattern by Elizabeth Hartman using my mad math skills!

May your bobbins always be full,

A Mug and A Mug Rug Swap

Next month my guild will be two years old; we're a young guild.  This year for our Christmas party we decided to exchange a Mug Rug and a mug.  It was a lot of fun.  Mine is above, I took the fox block from the Fancy Forest quilt pattern and shrank it!  Talk about math skills!  I bought the mug to match and threw in some tea.

The swap is a blind swap, each gift was placed in a brown paper bag and we passed them around.  Above is the gift that landed in my lap.  I am so pleased with this gift and have been using it a lot.  Below is a group shot of all of us holding our mugs and mug rugs.

May your bobbins always be full,