Spooky Scrappy Quilted Mug Rugs

Spooky Scrappy Quilted Mug Rugs

If you've been quilting as much as I have, you know how expensive materials can get. That's why it's comforting to know not all quilts...
If you've been quilting as much as I have, you know how expensive materials can get. That's why it's comforting to know not all quilts have to be BIG. So I started looking into smaller projects like wall hangings, table runners, placemats, and (my new favorite) mug rugs! When a mystery scrap bag of Ruby Star Society fabric from Amazon arrived in the mail, I was delighted to find it stuffed with adorable Halloween prints! I immediately felt inspired to make some spooky quilted mug rugs for a few crafty friends who were visiting, later in the week. The pattern...
FO: Liberty Fabric Night Vision Quilt

FO: Liberty Fabric Night Vision Quilt

Making the scrappy Liberty fabric quilt of my dreams.

On a rainy day, I decided to sort my collection of Liberty fat quarters by color. As I did, I found myself gazing at an array of gorgeous grey-scale prints. Suddenly, I remembered some yardage of a cool-grey Liberty solid that I had bought a while back for a sewing project that never came to be. It struck me then that I had enough of this fabric to create a quilt! I hopped over to my Quilting Pinterest board for pattern inspiration and settled on the Night Vision Quilt by Modernly Morgan. While it's a relatively straightforward pattern, it involves...
FO: Tineola

FO: Tineola

As soon as I dyed a few batches of my new Gosling yarn base (a delicious 70/20/10 blend of superwash merino, baby alpaca, and silk),...
As soon as I dyed a few batches of my new Gosling yarn base (a delicious 70/20/10 blend of superwash merino, baby alpaca, and silk), I was eager to knit a sample. So I hoped on Ravelry to find a pattern and stumbled on the Tineola shawl by Ambah O'Brien. I've always admired her patterns but never got around to knitting one, until now. I was drawn to this pattern because I love the concept — I mean, it practically glorifies a knitter's arch-nemesis, but at the same time, it's just so pretty! It's a relatively quick knit; the pattern...