A Friday Night Sew In

Another good time at FNSI.  Thanks to Heidi and her cousin Bobbi for hosting the monthly event.

It was time to resupply mug rugs for the market, so I had fun playing with some more frog fabric last night.

 

Just love to pair them up with the glass bead frogs that I made for the little spoons.

I cut several more to sew up later,

 and sewed together batting scraps for more mug rugs.

Then I added a few more blocks to my WIP String Quilt.

 I'm not sure that I like the dark fabric, even if it does have some cute lil pink roses.

More Mug Rugs

I am thrilled to have this great use for scraps, especially floral ones that are too pretty to toss.  And they are such fun to make, especially the ticker tape variety.

I reckon I've already made close to 20 mug rugs, and had fun trying out new stitches.  My old sewing machine has a little case of  24 "cogs"

that fit on a spindle in my machine, for creating different stitch patterns. 

This is the design of cog # 19.

You can see another use of cog on the kitty cats:

 I even managed a few double needle designs!

To see more rugs, click on the Mug Rugs Tab here or in the top right corner of my blog.  Thanks for visiting!

My First FNSI!

I've been working on mug rugs this week, and finished them up yesterday during the Friday Night Sew In, held monthly by Heidi and her sister at HandmadebyHeidi.  

I'm new to the quilting world, and haven't sewn in very many years...these are only the 3rd, 4th, and 5th ones I've made, so don't look too closely.

#3

 #3 flip side

I decided it was time to try out the features on this machine that my sister gave me awhile back.  The machine is a Vogue Stitch and quite old, but has some cogs for specialty stitches.

#4

 #4 flip side 

This blue used to be someone's shirt.

This is not your average zigzag stitch, oh no no no...but is the #10 cog from the pack.  The half circles are made with the #12 cog.  I think I'm liking it!

#5

 #5 flip side

 If you're curious, photos of my first 2 mug rugs are HERE.