11/16/2021

 


Mug rugs are so fun to sew and very useful when you want to enjoy a cup of coffee or tea together with a cookie. I have sewn several mug rugs during the years. Most of them with birds , as I love birds.
Here are some of my birdie  mug rugs



Have you tested the Japanese way named boro to mend clothes? I found the book The Book of Boro by Susan Brisco and got so inspired by the method of hand sewing  tiny pieces of fabric to a back ground with sashiko stitches. 




 I love fabric from Kaffe Fasset groups and I have saved several small scraps. Now it was an excellent time to use them. My first project was a traditional rice bag, from a pattern in the book. It is hand sewn and it was so cozy to sit and sew it, even if it took for me two to three weeks to complete it.



Now to mug rugs the boro way. My first was this one, where I put  all in  covering the back ground  with scraps  like roof tiles. I have used embroidery yarns as I haven't  got any sashiko thread. I used a glue pen to pin the scraps before sewing them to the background.






I am a member of  the board of our Swedish national quilt guild and during a weekend in October we had our annual meeting for our members. As we couldn't have our meeting last year because of the pandemi  it was so fun to meet our members again. In one of the workshops we had a boro project. The idea and project is made from me and my friend Karin. We sold kit with the material consting of  a denim background  some Kaffe scraps and sashiko threads . The ladies were so inspired so I think some of them started new projects at home. 
My mug rug with denim and Kaffe scraps is below


I have used sashiko thread, a lovely thread to hand sew with.


And finally as it soon is Christmas a mug rug with an angel. I have drawn the angel by hand and then appliquéd the little darling and the stars to the backgrund. This time no sewing by hand.



Now over to the other ladies blogging today



A big Thank You to lovely Carla for  hosting this blog hop. It is so fun to participate, when I have time to spend.


Hugs to you all from Britt-Inger in Malmö, Sweden





5/18/2021

Born to be Wild

 



When Carol with the blog Just let me Quilt invited to the blog hop Born to be Wild my first idea was to make something with lions. 
I have earlier this year bought a pattern  Dandy Lions from Judy Carleton from her firm Ric rac. The pattern has instructions for the cutest lions. 
And they were so fun and easy to sew and the pattern has great instructions. 
Here are my cute lions 





I bought a panel with kind of tropical birds this winter only because I found the birds so fun and awesome. I have then  no idea what to make of it, but now I think the panel could be a foundation for a table runner.  And the birds are really born to be wild. I haven't used all the squares in the panel, there are two big squares left that could be a base for a tote. 
The size of my table runner is 14" x 60"















Now over to my  hopping quilting friends of the day May 19th

Hill Valley Quilter (that's me)

Thank you lovely Carol for this fun blog hop.

Greetings from late Spring in Sweden











Britt-Inger