SQT Mug Rug Swap 2016...

I got the best squishy mail recently but couldn't reveal until now...my swap parcel in Kathleen Tracey's Small Quilt Talk mug quilt (rug) swap...I was paired up with the lovely Lu Ann Leonard from Arizona USA and once again I lucked out with my swap partner...chatting back and forth on the email having a lovely time...today (well today American time yesterday our time) is the day of the big reveal in the group so now the secret is out there...

From Lu Ann...how awesome is this package of goodies...

 Check out the gorgeous 30's fabric flower mug rug...

And not one but two...a selvedge one as well!...

How cute is the backing fabric!...

Lu Ann included a pattern (for a table runner) from a shop near her run by a couple of blokes who not only design their own patterns but have homemade biscuits and a cuppa as part of their customer service, if only it wasn't so far away!...cute safety pin fabric, postcards to pretend I was travelling to the other side of the world on which she wrote tidbits about her area which is fun...Thank you so much Lu Ann I love my mug rugs and my other goodies...love it all...If only Lu Ann wasn't so far away!

So what did I sent to Lu Ann?

Well, she is a Civil War repro girl and I had the Best Time fossicking about in the fabric bits for a tumbler mug rug...

(6 5/8" x 8 3/4")

I handpieced the top and hand quilted in the ditch horizontally and vertically for each row.  I mis-measured my tumber template at 1" and aimed at about 6" with 6 across x 6 rows but it ended up a tad biger because the template was actually around 1 1/4"...I came home from work one night during the making process and thought, I want to make Lu Ann a pincushion as well...so I did... 

(3" x 3" x 1")

Blue on one side and red on the other...

My package to Lu Ann (ignore the hexagon card, while it made the photo shoot it didn't make the actual parcel - oops!)...I included a fat quarter of fabric which had a gumnuts/leaves pattern, some little quilt labels for her small quilts, some postcards and magnet of the area of the work town and a rosella bookmark...I do hope Lu Ann finds all her bits useful...

So that was what my October sewing was all about...now on to finalising my swap present for SSCS 2017 2016 (thanks Jo! - the extra time would have been a bonus though!), the hanging ornament sorted, the main present underway as it needs to be mailed by end of this coming week - eek! where is the time going!!...

Happy Stitching...