Fall Mug Rug Swap
I signed up for the Fall Mug Rug Swap being run by Quilting Bloggers. I was very lucky to get a wonderful swap partner, Zanna, who lives in Bahrain (but is South African). She told me that she has owl nesting boxes at her home in South Africa, so I had to use an owl theme for one of the mug rugs. The other, I wanted to have a feel of an English autumn...so different from a desert island , where she lives. I drew out a simple picture of an owl on a branch and used it as a template for the picture. I used monofilament to secure the fusible and then used gold, metallic thread to free motion quilt the veins in the leaves and for the stipple stitch. I hadn't used monafilament or metallic thread in my machine before. I used a trapunto technique under the oak leaves for this mug mat. I used a gorgeous, had dyed silk thread for the leaf veins. I wanted to personalise it, so used fusible again, to add Zanna's name and b...