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ITH Firefighter Gnome Mug Rugs Embroidery Project

By Pat Williams on February 19, 2024

SKILL LEVELSome Experience
TIME REQUIRED01:15
FINISHED SIZE6 x 8 inches

Description

Show your support for these first responder’s by stitching out these adorable Firefighter Gnome Mug Rugs. The fabric is pieced, appliqued, embroidered, and quilted in the hoop. The binding is applied at your sewing machine.

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Materials

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Materials

For each mug rug:

6” x 10” embroidery hoop or larger

7” x 7 ½” Sky print quilting cotton

2 ½” x 7 ½” Green quilting cotton

4 ½” x 4” rectangle of Red Kona Cloth®

4 ½” x 4” rectangle of Heat N Bond Lite®

9“x 7 ½” quilting cotton of your choice for back of the block

2 ¼” x width of Red quilting cotton for binding

9” x 7 ½” rectangle of Battilizer® or low loft batting

2.5 ounce cut-away stabilizer

Spray adhesive

Designs used in this project

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/fmgn02

https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/productdetails/pat-williams/designs/1/fmgn01

Final Product: What You Will Create

Preface:

See our article Binding Small Embroidery Projects to make quick work of binding these mug rugs.

Print out the color chart from the page where your purchase the designs as some color stops represent steps to be taking in the assembly process rather than actual colors that are used in the project. For example: the 1st 5 color stops of these mug rugs can all be stitched in white thread.

As you know, I most always use Madeira Rayon thread for my designs. However, in this design Maderia Polyneon color 1935 which is a fluorescent yellow/green is used for the safety stripes on the uniform. It give a very realistic appearance to those safety stripes.

Step 1:

Cut your fabrics per the materials list above and tautly hoop your stabilizer. Fuse the Heat N Bond Lite® to the back of the Red corresponding fabric.

Step 2:

Run the first color stop (CS) as a placement line for the fabric 7” x 7 ½” sky fabric.

Step 3:

Spray adhesive on the back of the sky fabric and position the fabric so that the bottom of the fabric is about ¼” below the placement line that is 1 ½” above the bottom of the placement lines. The sides and the top of the fabric will exceed the placement lines by at least 1/2”.

Step 4:

Lay the Grass Green fabric right side down aligning the bottom edge with the bottom edge of the sky fabric. No spray adhesive is used on the grass fabric yet. Run CS 2 to stitch the two fabrics together.

Step 5:

Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop. Spray adhesive on the stabilizer area below the fabrics seam. Smooth the grass fabric away from the sky and over the bottom placement line. The fabric should exceed the bottom placement line by at least ½”. Place tape where the sky and grass fold over right outside the stitching lines to keep the fabric from being lifted by the presser foot.

Step 6:

Run CS 3 in white to tack down both fabrics.

Step 7:

Run CS 4 as a placement line for the hat fabric.

Step 8:

Peel the paper off the red 4 ½” x 4” fabric; spray adhesive on the Heat N Bond Lite® side and position the fabric over the placement lines so that the fabric exceeds the placements by ½ on all sides. Run CS 5 to tack down the fabric.

Step 9:

Remove the hoop from the machine, do not unhoop. Trim the applique right up next to the tack down stitches and then press the applique with an applique iron.

Step 10:

Follow the color chart to embroider the Fireman Gnome but do not stitch the last two color stops yet.

Step 11:

Remove the hoop from the machine – do not unhoop-place the hoop face down on a flat surface. Spray adhesive on the Battilizer® and position it over the back of the hoop aligning it with your front fabric. Spray adhesive on your backing fabric and position it right side up over the Battilizer®.

Step 12:

Return the hoop to the machine and run the next to last color stop in white thread to tack down the fabrics and batting.

Step 13:

Run the last CS in invisible thread to quilt over both the sky and grass.

Step 14:

Remove the project from the hoop. Lay the ¼” mark of a see-through ruler along the tack down lines and trim all sides to a ¼” seam allowance.

Step 15:

Bind as desired or use the instructions in our Binding Small Embroidery Projects article.

Step 16:

Congratulations your first Firefighter Mug Rug is complete. Follow these same steps to complete the female version!

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 Firefighter Gnome Mug Rugs Embroidery Project

Materials

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ITH Fireman Gnome Mug Rug 2

ITH Fireman Gnome Mug Rug 1

Cut Away Stabilizer - 2.5 Oz wt.

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