Project Quilting 17.3. The Year of the Horse

 

PQ Challenge 17.3 - Year of the Horse

Rule One: find your inspiration from the turn of the year, in the animal, in our hopes and desires for the near future.

I wish , a hope or desire had occurred to me on Sunday when I opened Kim’s blog for the 3rd challenge. Sometimes I am so literal when I first think about the prompt. I live in Wyoming, we have horses everywhere. They are on our license plates:

There is highway art:

The Steam Locomotive and the railroad were called the Iron Horse in the 19th century.

Statues in front of businesses, (though this is technically not a horse, but a cross between and horse and a donkey, I think)

Even the Chistmas trees sometimes wear cowboy hats.

I don't normally buy horse, western, cowboy fabric. I grew up in the city. A South Dakota city, but city none the less.

I went into the sewing room and spied a charm pack of fabric called Cowboy. I think I won it in a giveaway.There are horses, horse accoutrements (horseshoes, boots, pickup trucks, sheriff badges and of course guitars!)

My brother sometimes wears a cowboy hat.  Though in this photo his grandson has the hat on. 

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When dressed up my BIL wears a cowboy hat though he doesn't have a horse.

Long story short I decided on larger than average mug rugs.  And this is the result. 

There has to be room on the mug rug for a big mug of coffee and a cookie, right?  Or a slab of pie or an order of biscuits and gravy. 

Backing is a piece from my stash. Kinda looks like hay, don’t you think?

Linking up at Persimon Dreams for Project Quilting 17.3.  the Year of the Horse.  I’m linking up today, so I don’t forget tomorrow. I’m sitting in the ER with Mr. Busy. He had an anaphylactic reaction to some candy. These 2 big mug rugs are completed. If I get the binding finished on the other two, I’ll edit my post. 

He’s home, he’s fine and I finished the binding on the 4th and final mug mat at 10:00 pm MST Saturday night. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.