Lisa was looking for a well-digitized trapunto design and decided to check out the Embrilliance project blog for some inspiration. She knew that the designs we share are always in BE format, meaning that StitchArtist users get access to all the objects and settings in the BE file, making them perfect teaching tools and allowing complete control for editing! The old-school vintage style of Erich's trapunto flag fit the style she wanted for this July 4th project perfectly, so she downloaded the original and opened it up with Embrilliance. Lisa drew inspiration from Erich's beautifully pathed design, taking some time to see just how he used the StitchArtist tools to put it together.
While analyzing the design in StitchArtist, she realized how easily she could turn this design into a quick stitching quilted mug rug project, complete with a flapped back for trouble-free turning. Making this style of mug rug design is a simple process. All you need to turn your design into a mug rug masterpiece is to start the design with a placement stitch line to show you where to place your fabric and a tack-down stitch line to fix it in place . After your main design runs, you then add a finishing stitch line to attach the overlapped fabric pieces that form the back. When the stitching is done, finishing is a matter of removing the piece from hoop, trimming your seam allowance, and turning the piece through the opening to get that finished look.
As always, the Afterhours with Lisa session was fun and informative, especially with the ideas and discussions happening in the comments, though some were concerned that the trapunto style might tip a mug. Lisa’s version used 2 layers of light batting under the quilters cotton top to create the raised look of the ‘USA’ lettering that she loves. As an avid coffee drinker, Lisa felt that her substantial mugs would have no problem compressing that light material, so the “trapunto bump” was no issue. The great thing about making our own projects is that we can make them any way we like! If you don’t want the dimensional look, or use light mugs and cups that you don’t think will sit as flat as our heavier ceramics, you can use a layer or two of flannel to build up your mug rug instead of batting.
Link to the Embrilliance project blog post with design link:
https://embrilliance.com/archives/162669
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https://embrilliance.com/product/stitchartist-level-1
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