I did a thing! I made another mug rug to continue my venture into sewing, and this time I even did bias tape binding around the edge! Which was totally a pain in the but to create bias tape, and then hand stitch down the tape on the back. I don’t have a tape maker, and I don’t have the fancy machine foot to do the binding. Yet.
This was also an exercise in carefully measuring the pieces. I improvised this design, so I didn’t have measurements to go by. I totally winged it, and had to re-cut a couple pieces after I did the fancy triangle bits.
I think I did ok for my first pieced quilting. Could be better, but it could have gone a lot worse, too!
I did have to re-do the binding once, after I messed up the corners. Learning moment.
This is for a personal swap (non LC) that I am doing, for DIY festive yarn advent calendars. At least half of the days need to be mini skeins, and the rest can be fun knit/crochet adjacent accessories. The fabric motif ties into the theme of the little group participants.
Your corners are amazing. Just FYI just because I’m not sure if you know, you can also do machine binding with a regular foot. @MareMare posted a brilliant machine binding tutotial on C-ster that I unfortunately did not save. Basically you do it the other way around, you stitch the binding to the back first, fold over and stitch the binding to the front.
Nice. The moose is so fun and the other colors give it a woodlands feel. Nice job on the binding, binding is always a pain, but I always opt to hand sew on the back, makes such a nice finish. And I hate hand sewing!
Interesting! I googled real quick how to attach binding and then just went step by step as the person said to, which ended up being hand stitched to finish it. LOL.
I ordered a set of bias tape makers that come with a binding foot, should arrive tomorrow, I think.
I’m having fun with these mug mats. They are good practice, and fairly quick for a newbie. I needed a win after the debacle trying to sew a zippered pillow case out of some leftover upholstery… stupid zippers.
Good luck with the bias tape makers! It’s not exactly my favourite thing in the world to make bias tape but I love using homemade bias tape from fun fabrics rather than boring shop bought bias tape.
What I like to do for mug rugs instead of bias tape binding is folding the backing fabric over to the front and stitching it down as a binding. I cut the backing a couple of inches bigger than the top. When I’m done quilting, I trim the backing down to exactly 1 inch bigger than the front, fold the flap of fabric exactly in half wrong sides together, then flip it over to the front and stitch it down. I don’t do mitered corners when I finish a mug rug that way but I’m sure it’s possible one way or another. (Hope that description makes any sense )
I’m curious on how you did your binding. In the one pic, it looks like a single strip with raw edges on each side. Did you have to flip the raw edge under when you did the hand sewing?
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