Stars Galore Mug Rug for Blog Hop

For our stop on the blog hop hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt, we designed a little mug rug called Stars Galore Mug Rug.  The blog hop started on May 21 and runs through today, May 25th.  Thank you Carol for organizing this fun hop!  Many of the participants will have giveaways so you won’t want to miss any of the stops, and I share a list of them at the end of this post.

This is our second free pattern for a mug rug.  (Click on the name if you are interested in our Checkerboard Heart mug rug pattern from the February blog hop.)  We decided that this is the perfect occasion for us to share at long last the completion of our Evening Star quilt.  The poor thing has been awaiting my inspiration for quilting, and that came way back in March with this Fluffer Nutter table runner.  Thanks to Cindy for sharing closeup pictures of her quilting, as the lightbulb finally went on for me.  Here is a photo of this quilt that is very star inspired:

Stars Galore

I did my usual method of designing, on a post-it note at work during my lunch break.  I brought it home and handed it to Sue, saying that we needed to make a little flag mug rug.  She pulled some red and blue fabrics and started cutting them.  Sue also did the sewing on our piece.  Here is the squared-up project before layering it for quilting.

A Starry Start

We knew that we wanted to add some additional star pieces to the navy area.  Even though it had stars in the fabric, what would a star blog hop be without lots of stars?  I found the star shape in Word, sized it to about one inch and cut it out after printing it.  The next step was to trace it on the wrong side of the white-on-white star fabric.  We didn’t bother with an iron-on fusible product as the placement didn’t matter that much.

Next, it was time for layering and quilting.  A scrap piece of batting and backing fabric was used, just slightly bigger than the flag piece.  I used a wavy stitch on the red and white stripes.  The white stars were placed and then buttonholed around them.  The final step was to add some FMQ small star shapes in and around the appliquéd pieces.

Wish Upon A Star Participants

Here are all the participants for this year’s Wish Upon A Star blog hop.

May 21

• Moose Stash Quilting
• Tu-Na Quilts, Travels, and Eats
• Quilt In A Not-Shell
• What About Rheema?
• Clever Chameleon Quilting
• Sunlight in Winter Quilts
• Life in the Scrapatch
• Sew Many Yarns
• Hazel’s Daughter

May 22

• Want To Be Quilter
• Cynthia’s Creating Ark
• Selina Quilts
• Ridge Top Quilt
• Creative Blonde
• Days Filled With Joy
• Seams To Be Sew
• Lily Patch Quilts
• Why-Knot-Kwilt 

May 23

• Marjorie’s Busy Corner
• Quilt Doodle Designs
• Adventurous Applique and Quilting
• Vroomans Quilts
• Peanut’s Patchwork
• Ms P Designs USA
• The Little Mushroom Cap
• Stitchin At Home
• That Fabric Feeling 

May 24

• Kathy’s Quilts
• It’s A T-Sweet Day!
• Freckled Fox Quiltery
• Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
• Melva Loves Scraps
• Beaquilter
• Quilting Nonnie
• Den syende himmel
• All Thingz Sewn 

May 25

• Creatin’ in the Sticks
• For the love of geese
• Words & Stitches
• Quarter Inch Crafter
• Quilt Fabrication
• Home Sewn By Us – that’s us!
• Kathleen McMusing
• Just Let Me Quilt

There are lots of our friends listed here who are participating in all the starry fun.  Be sure to check them out!

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