TeaTime Mug Mats

I'm having fun making these little mug mats for friends & relatives.

These are going off to two tablescapers who love to

shop for bargains together.

Can you guess who they might be???

Hint:

I'm joining The Tablescaper for her

The fabrics that I used on both of these have been

mellowing in my *resource center* for YEARS!!

It was a line called "TEATIME" fabrics put out by Hoffman Media

in combination with their book,

"TEATIME", which I still have.




It has some darling projects that I'd love to make

but I can't find the fabrics anymore!

I only have some small pieces left from

prior projects.

The two table toppers, below,

were some of the very first quilting projects I ever did.

In fact, there is very little quilting on them...

I was so afraid I would ruin them that all I did was

"stitch in the ditch" to anchor the layers together,

then used my embroidery machine to add some

red work teacups...well, really PINK teacups.

I still have the pink one up on the wall of my sewing room.

The blue one, below, I gave away.

It is fun to look back at how far I've come,

yet I feel I still have so much to learn!

I'm not as afraid of doing free motion quilting now.

In fact, I had lots of fun doing the stippling on the mug mats.

Check out those tiny squiggles around the teapots!!
You get a trapunto look that makes the teapots feel 3-D.
The word "trapunto" means "to embroider" in Italian.

Long ago, in Italy, the women would cut the back of the project

and stuff it with batting, then sew up the hole

to achieve the same effect.


I have a few more in my head that I want to make,

then its on to other UFO's that I've neglected.

Never enough time!!!

Thanks for visiting...stop by anytime...

I'll be in the lower level, sewing up a storm today since its raining...AGAIN!

fondly,

EDIT TO ADD:

Donna from Brynwood Needleworks has a great tutorial on how to make these.

Go HERE.