Mug Rug Exchange - Do it yourself style!

[Lorchen]

8) No idea what you are all on about...... I'm really a good girl (but with a fertile imagination).

[lorra]

If I can stop laughing long enough I will try to connect the camera to the computer and upload the photo of the mug rug Ritzy sent to me. I keep envisioning a mr with little plaid boxers hanging from a clothes line. Now if I could only find some very small plaid fabric. :wink: :wink:

[lorra]

Ritzy,

Another beautiful mug rug you sent to Cathy. I still can't figure out how you do the edges. Are they done on a serger?

[Renata]

Nancy and Cathy, what great mug rugs from Ritzy. I'm inspired, can't wait to get back home and start making mug rugs again!

[twiglet]

Wow Ritzy they are amazing

[clhdabb]

Ritzy and Lorchen~ MRs out to you today.

[Reetzbobeetz]

More fantastic mug rug Ritzy. I would love to know how you do those satin stitch edges too. Any time I try to do that the machine just eats up the fabric at the corners. :cry:

[idaho]

Vicki...I see you responding here..still have not gotten a mailing address for your Mug Rug....
Please send An email by using the icon under my picture and profile. Sorry for the topic
jump ! Love those Ritzy Rugs !! :lol:

[Renata]

More fantastic mug rug Ritzy. I would love to know how you do those satin stitch edges too. Any time I try to do that the machine just eats up the fabric at the corners. :cry:

Yes, yes, Ritzy, brief tutorial on how you do your satin edge stitching, please! I'd love to learn how to do it too! :P

[Renata]

OK ladies, here is what you need to know:
First of all, I use this stuff called Pel-Tex(it may be Tim-Tex across the pond) instead of batting when I make my mug rugs. This makes them nice and firm, so making it easier to get a nice edge(but even without it I do my satin stitch the same way).

When doing my SS, I start with as setting of 2 for stitch width. I make sure the needle is hitting outside of the edge of the fabric and I start with the needle inside the fabric as close to the top edge as I can(without eating up the fabric in the feed dog). Then I stitch until I am all the way to the bottom edge ending with the needle off the fabric.

I realign the corner of the fabric with the needle on the outside of the fabric and stitch to the bottom again. I do this on all four sides. If I have threads sticking out, I trim them and start all over again with at stitch width of 2.5.

If I have good coverage(sometimes the weight of the thread does not cover as well as I would like) I end back at where I started and tuck all thread beginnings and ends in a needle and run them through to back of the satin stitching. Then, on the back side of the fabric, I use Fray Check on the corners.

Any more questions--let me know and I will try to answer. Oh, and if I don't have good enough coverage, I do it all again using a stitch width of 3.

One more thing--I think the reason I get a pretty good satin stitch is that I make sure the needle hits off the fabric when it hits on the right-hand side.

[Renata]

Makes total sense to me, Ritzy, thank you! Now I just have to get home to a sewing machine! I'll let you know if I have questions after I try it. It is another very pretty way of finishing a mug rug.

[Reetzbobeetz]

Thanks Ritzy, I will have to give it a try now.

[Reetzbobeetz]

Keep in mind--each corner is being covered twice with each stitch width.

[Reetzbobeetz]

Vicki...I see you responding here..still have not gotten a mailing address for your Mug Rug....
Please send An email by using the icon under my picture and profile. Sorry for the topic
jump ! Love those Ritzy Rugs !! :lol:

Marilyn,

I just checked my mug rug folder and do not have your address either. Thought I did. Please send that to me.

Thanks
Vicki

[lotti]

I had a new desk delivered at the office, two truck drivers from Germany delivered and set up my new desk (electrically adjustable for different height levels so that I can stand part of the time). As they were setting it up I got them some coffee and choccies, when I brought the coffee in, they were both standing in front of my mug-rug-wall trying to figure out how they were all made. Both of them totally fascinated! Ladies you now can add two truck drivers from germany to your admirers. I bet our muggies are being spoken of in many places 8) 8) 8)