Finished or Not Finished Friday!

This is a twofer post! I will copy the Table Scraps Challenge post here. I have to take like successes where I can find them!

My scraps started out like this…not cohesive at all. I could have gone to my Halloween basket of fabrics but Halloween is more than two months away! There were some crumb block beginnings. 

But I should decide how the embroidery will go. I keep having visions of LeeAnna’s creations. You know, beautiful improve piecing, gorgeous fabrics and fabulous embellishments with embroidery threads and beads! But alas, I’m too OCD or controlling or boring or something!

So I paged through my embroidery patterns. A pumpkin? 

Or maybe this one!

A sunflower? 

A poppy?

I finally settled on this design from Gum Trees BOM 2011.  By Vicki Tucek

I left off the heart shapes in the steam and the ruffle like edging on the coaster , selected two different  orange threads, black for the mug, a mocha for the coffee and a bluish gray for the steam. I had  a large piece of slightly peachy mottled fabric for background. A scrap of Pellon  SF101 ironed quickly to the back and in two evenings I was done.  (Sorry, no photo of just the stitching!)

I sewed some crumbs together, 

found some long pieces for borders, because they were there and they are easy. There was a long pumpkin colored fabric strip that I thought would work for a narrow binding. Sew, trim, add some more. The size it ended up being was decided by a piece of batting that was in the batting scraps bin. And there was a piece  of orange pumpkins for the backing. 

Ready for quilting with Orange Zest thread!

I straight line quilted horizontally and vertically with a spool of Orange Zest, a free gift last year with an order from Missouri Star Quilts.  Then thought I’d give some big stitch quilting a try. I had a spool of 12wt Sulky thread in reddish orange tones.  

 It doesn’t have a color name only a number, 712-4006.  I’d call it rhubarb crisp. 😀

The binding strip got ironed, pressed in half and applied to the back. It’s narrow, so I machine stitched it on the front. Every time I practice this I get a bit better! Not perfect, but it’s a mug mat! 

Photo: outside on a small table that need restraining, badly!  Fall project!!

 This is the back. I figure I can flip it over for Halloween week! I’ve had this fabric forever! 

Can you read the label? Written with a green ZIG pen. 

It says:: 

Table Scraps Challenge ‘22

August- Orange- Embroidery 

I Love Coffee stitchery in orange 

       & black

Crumb blocks added to make 

mug mat size  8 1/2  X 10 1/2

JKB 8-5-22---8-22-22

I posted this in the Linky Party for Table Scraps Challenge and now in Finished or Not Friday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!