Tutorial Tuesday–Stitching Mug rugs

Christmas is near, so I was thinking of starting Teacher gifts, I asked my son and he has 7 teachers this year! wow…. mug rugs it will be

and I was thinking of embroidering the middle part and designing it using EQ Stitch. So here we go!

To easily stitch out something you want to find an applique shape/block.

First one is SCIENCE,

I searched under science, beaker, rock, then “moon” and found a few

I like the bottom middle one- add to sketchbook!

I also added #8 the tree with the moon, just in case

Now social studies

found an american flag, not appliqued though.

Language arts- hmm maybe just writing something

Math could also write something

Gym, under 06 motifs there’s a sports section, lots of things to choose from

Art; under 05 the last section is called your design studio

I could use the scissors and the bolt of fabric- just pretend it’s a roll of paper right?

for music, I searched for NOTE and found these

Okay let’s get started on a mug rug

go to the sketchbook and find a block you like and click EDIT

go to the applique tab

hit CTRL A and CTRL C to copy everything

then click the WORK on stitching block

and under the artwork tab, hit CTRL V to paste it

Hit the center button on the top and maybe shrink it all a bit, that’s up to you.

Now go to the STITCH tab

it will look pretty plain like this, but we’ll fix it

first I want the saxophone to be yellow just so I can see the other stuff on it

play around with the different fill patterns first before coloring other parts, especially black, because you can’t see the stitching on the screen at all with black thread

You can also adjust the angle of the stitching, I did it on some of the music notes

Lastly color the notes black and the orange parts on the saxophone.

Add to sketchbook, if you are sure about the design you can EXPORT stitching too!

Here’s the art one I combined the two blocks

And the science one, I combined two blocks also

math- it’s  an equation- see it?

Language arts

And lastly social studies, I traced a block to make it applique then moved it over to the stitch block and made it smaller

Now go back to the quilt and made it 1 x 1 block with the block being 4”

Then under the border tab, unclick the size adjustments and just add a border to the right 3”

Now work on block and have the block also be 3 x 4” and only add snaps at 4 horizontally and 16 vertically, draw lines like these

Color the block randomly

and add to sketchbook

go to the photo tab and import one of your stitched blocks as a picture

On layer 2, click the SET photo button on the right

select your photo and hold down SHIFT and start at the top left corner and draw down to the bottom right corner of the block

You can add a 1/4” border to show binding if you want, otherwise the mug rug is done!

link up if you try this