Gingerbread Man Mug Rug - Tutorial

We recently had a fun little get-together with some friends.  It was an evening of catching up, laughter, dinner, goodies and... cookie decorating!

I bravely mixed up sugar cookies, Dave rolled them and cut out gingerbread men shapes and I baked them... It was a team effort and they turned out amazing!  Many thanks to Karen at Tu-Na Quilts for the recipe, tips and suggestions. 

Rules of the game... you have 1-1/2 minutes.  There are three bowls in front of you - one of frosting with a knife, a bowl of m&m's, one with mini chocolate chips and a jar of sprinkles.  While blindfolded you need to decorate your gingerbread man as you please.

It was hilarious!  

One person couldn't find the knife to spread the frosting, so they used their fingers...  someone broke a leg off... one little guy lost his head... a few tried to give body parts, but most just tried to make their man look like a normal gingerbread man with two eyes and a nose and buttons down the front.

You wouldn't think it would be so hard.  I mean everyone has seen a gingerbread man... two eyes, a nose, maybe a mouth and buttons.  But when you can't see where the frosting is going or how much you have, it really is a challenge!

So, a few weeks ago I shared in the Virtual Cookie Exchange hop a pair of table toppers that I designed - a gingerbread man and woman... I also shared a fun little mug rug.

Here is a tutorial on how to make the mug rug...

Cut:

6- 2-1/2" squares of tan
3- 2-1/2" squares of background fabric
9- 1" squares of background fabric

On three of the GBM (gingerbread man) fabric place three of the 1-1/2" background squares, mark center line, stitch, trim and flip to "shape" the head and two hands.

**Note** If you want to use decorative trim it is easier to add to the "hands" before sewing this step.

Join the blocks to make the rows and then join the rows...

Make your quilt sandwich and quilt as desired and finish with binding.

I used only decorative stitches on my first mug rug (shown above).  I used some picot ribbon on my second mug rug (below) along with some decorative stitches to create the buttons and face.  And I am in love with the button-hole stitching on the binding!

This little guy looks a little like he may have been decorated at our party... blindfolded!  lol.  Maybe he is just smirking...

If you want to make the larger table topper, cut the squares to 5-1/2" and 1-3/4" and assemble in the same manner.

Well, there you have it... A quick little last minute project!  Because every quilter has last minute projects that just HAVE to be added to gifts.  The mug rug would make a really, really cute tag on a gift.

How many are you going to make???

Leave a comment and let me know...  I love to hear from my readers.

Merry Quiltmas!

Melva

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