April Mug Rug Blog Hop, Day 15!

Today is my day to participate to the  Mug Rug April Showers Blog Hop before I show you my mug rug, I want to thank Mdm Samm for hosting this blog hop and Erin at Sew at home Mummy because she is our cheerleader!

 

 

In my case the month of April, it is the season of spring and when I think of spring, I think of flowers.That's why I decided to make a mug rug using a photo of a flower from my garden. I took several photos to share with you the steps I followed to create an appliqué from my picture and then create  my mug rug.

 

 

 

The photo that inspired me to make this mug rug was this photo.

 

Since I'm not good at drawing, and I needed  to find a way to determine the

outline of the petals from this photo  that would allow me to create an

appliqué, I decided to use Photoshop Elements to do the job for me.

 

I decided to play around with Photoshop Elements and managed to define the

contours of the flower , after playing for a while I got this image, I

decided to use it to create my appliqué. I had to find a way to determine

the outline to create a form, from which to make an appliqué.

 

 

 

 

I decided to do the appliqué using fusible web.

 

For my project I needed:

1-the fusible web,
2-fabric
3- the outline drawing of the petals

 

 

 

 

I will try to explain what I did, hopefully with the pictures I've taken

will be clearer to understand.

 

The fusible web is a  paper that  has a smooth side and a sticky side,

where is the glue.
I fused the fusible web ( the sticky side)to the wrong side of the fabric.

 

 

 

I cut with scissors the outline of the petals and the center of my flower , from my picture

and I have kept them apart to use in the next steps.
 Using the pattern that I created, I traced    the outline of the petals on the smooth side of the fusible web.

 

 

Cut out the design on the line that I have traced

 

 

Peel away the fusible paper from the fabric

 

 

Position the applique onto the mug rug and iron. To give relief to this

flower, I decided to do Free Motion, to have a guide, I drew on the fabric

with a pencil the  petals of the flower, and carefully observing the

picture that I had, I tried to reproduce the drawing, the best I could

 

 

Then I used the   Free Motion foot, and  using the running stitch I followed

the lines that I had drawn.

To do the center of the flower I did the same

 

 

I thought I could add these leaves already printed on a canvas

 

 

 

Following the same steps, I added fusible web on the wrong side of the

fabric, cut, separated the fusible web from the fabric, placed it on the fabric,

ironed and finally
I added some details to the leaves, with black thread and Free Motion.

 

 

 

 

I did the binding and here is my mug rug!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 There are other blogs that are participating in this blog hop, here I give

you the list of the other participants to this day, I invite you to visit

them.

 

MONDAY, APRIL 15th

Cathy @ Cate's Linens

Nicola @ Sunshine Reflections

Martina @ Sunshinequilting

Judith @ Frimart

Anita @ Anita's quilts en handwerken

Linda @ Sew Nicely

Kris @ krislovesfabric

Laura Ann @ The Fuzzy Hat Quilter

Carol @ Just let me Quilt

Selina @ Selina Quilts

Mary @ Crooked Gulley Art Quilts

Marisa @ Passion et Couture Have a happy sewing day! Marisa 

I'm linkink this project to Fluster Buster, Creative Crafts Thursday, Katherines Corner (Thursday Favorite Things), Sew Many Ways and Creating my way to Succes. I'm also linking up with Crafty Spices and Find  a Friend.