I was feeling crafty last week so the kids and I did some fun paper weaving and melted crayon wax paper hearts.  It left me itching to make something else and since it’d been forever since I’d used my sewing machine I thought I’d try sewing something.

I rummaged through my sewing cabinet and came across some scraps so I went looking for stuff to make with fabric scraps and came across these cute little Mug Rugs.  A Mug Rug is basically a tiny place mat for a drink and a snack.

This was the first one I made using the wonky starburst tutorial.

Water and almonds, yum!

I mitered my corners using this tutorial and bound the edges using this tutorial.  These were both extremely helpful!  But it didn’t prevent me from needing to use my seam ripper a time or ten, but mostly because I skim over directions when I think I know what I’m doing

My second go-round went much better.  I only needed the seam ripper once and my mitered corners turned out much better.  I had it made in about two hours.  Instead of a starburst pattern I just used bits of scrap I had in roughly square and rectangle shapes so it’s more of a patchwork.  The binding on both of them was made from scrap fabric also, as shown here.

I didn’t do any fancy quilting on these, just stitched in the ditch {for the most part haha} down the joining seams.

This one is going with me to my new office on Monday….that’s right, I got a new job!

Happy weekend y’all!  Hubby and I will be celebrating 11 years of marriage tomorrow.