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ITH Light Bloom Mug Rugs Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on May 02, 2025

PROJECT DETAILS

SKILL LEVEL

Some Experience

TIME REQUIRED

00:40

FINISHED SIZE

7.88 x 5.68 inches

Description

Six little mug rugs with spring flowers in teacups are embroidered and quilted in the hoop. The binding is sewn on at the sewing machine.

Project Preview Video

Materials

For 1 mug mat:

5” x 7” embroidery hoop or larger

2 9” x 7” rectangles of BasicGrey White Paper Grunge® quilting cotton for the face and back of the mat

9” x 7” Battilizer® or low loft batting

2 ½” x 42” strip of coordinating solids or prints for binding

Cut-away stabilizer to fit the hoop

Spray adhesive

Water soluble thread

Craft Clips

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lbmr01

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lbmr02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lbmr03

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lbmr04

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lbmr05

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/lbmr06

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

I usually give the dimensions for the binding strips to be cut at 2 ¼”, but in this project the binding strips are cut at 2 ½”. This is to allow extra binding to cover the wider seam allowance left on the blocks when they are cut to size. This is to maximize the size of mug mat made in a 5” x 7” hoop.

Step 1:

Cut the fabrics per the materials list above. Tautly hoop the stabilizer in the embroidery hoop.

Step 2:

Run the first color stop (CS) in a neutral color as a placement line.

Step 3:

Spray adhesive on the white fabric and position over the placement line so that the fabric exceeds the placement line by 1” on all sides. Tack the fabric to the stabilizer with water soluble thread with CS 2. Water soluble thread is used for the tack down stitches now and at the end of the project so that these stitches can be removed with a damp cloth in the event that the binding does not cover them when the project is completed. If you are sure of your binding skills you can run this color stop with white thread.

Step 4:

Follow the color chart to embroider the design. Do not stitch the last two color stops yet.

Step 5:

Remove the hoop from the machine; do not unhoop; place the hoop face down on a flat surface; spray adhesive on the rectangle of Battilizer® and place over the back of the hoop so that the edges of the Battilizer® exceed the original placement line by 1” on all sides; spray adhesive on the back fabric and align right side up over the Battilizer®.

Step 6:

Return the hoop to the machine, and make sure the back fabrics remain smoothed on the back of the hoop. Run the next to last CS in water-soluble thread to tack down the back fabrics.
Run the final CS in white thread to quilt the mug mat.

Step 7:

Trim all edges of the block to ½” from the water-soluble tack down stitches.

Step 8:

Following the instructions in the article Binding Small Embroidery Projects. Stitch the 2 ½” binding folded in half lengthwise with a ¼” seam to the back of the mug mat. This will give you approximately ½” of binding to fold to the front of the mat to meet up with the water-soluble tack-down lines.

Step 9:

Congratulations your Light Bloom Mug Rug is complete! Make all 6 as great gifts and craft fair items.

For the love of embroidery…
Pat Williams

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Meet the Author: Pat Williams

Award winning Digitizer, Embroidery Educator, Author and a Consultant to the Industry, Pat Williams has 30 years of experience in the embroidery industry. Pat has won multiple awards for her digitizing expertise including the 2007 Impressions Awards Grand Championship, Best of Show as well as the 1st and 2nd Place Awards. Pat’s love of digitizing has afforded her the opportunity to write numerous articles for Impressions magazine in the United States and Images Magazine in Europe. In 2001 Pat was named “Embroidery Educator of the Year.” For many years Pat taught digitizing seminars at the ISS Shows in Long Beach, CA and for Compucon software. She now resides in Tucson, AZ.

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rugs Embroidery Project

PROJECT DETAILS

Project Preview Video

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rug 1

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rug 2

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rug 3

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rug 4

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rug 5

ITH Light Bloom Mug Rug 6

Light Bloom Mug Rug

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.