Mugrugs -- Update

I am a cup and saucer person and never made mugrugs before. But the beautiful autumn colours were quite inspiring.
I made the one on the left first. I digitised the design that fits the 5x7 hoop and I made a miniquilt with it. Drawback: I had to do the border on the sewing machine and my corners still need to be hand stitched.

For the second one I made an ITH design, resized the design a bit so it fitted the 5x7 hoop . It only needs a small opening to be hand sewn.
Drawback: the lining is not quilted and the mugrug is smaller than the first one.

After reading your comments I went for the ITH one and made a number of variations, see picture 2

The one on the left is the one I showed before with the strips (method#1), design #1, 4700 stitches.
The middle one is design #2, done as a (reverse) applique (method #2). 8400 stitches - due to the satin stitch.
The one on the right is design #1 with a fancy (reverse) applique (method #3). Also around 8400 stitches.


You can lay your contrast fabric on top and do them as an appliqué, or when your background shines through (as in my case) as a reverse appliqué.

The set is now available at Yoriko's site.