FMQ Friday + Finished Mug Rug

Just happened upon Cindy's Free Motion Quilting Friday and thought I'd give it a go right quick. Time invested? Five minutes. Results? Meh. Not bad, not great. It was fun to practice and I'm looking forward to next week's Drop Art challenge!

I got these nifty gloves a while back and they work wonders for gripping the quilt sandwich. I started out accidentally overlapping (on the right) and thought it looked cool so went with it a bit. Then I switched to the actual challenge pattern, Shadow Waves.

Broke my thread a couple times, oops! Do these stitches look too far apart or just right? I dunno.

I also have this finished mug rug to show off! This was what got me going on FMQ earlier this week. I realized that even though I wasn't in love with it after I was done, once it was washed and all crinkly I liked it a whole lot better.

I brought it to work for my desk so I could have something quilty to put my coffee on. Now when I clumsily nudge my foam cup just enough to spill a bit over the edge, this will keep my papers (haphazardly spread out all over the place) from getting coffee marks on them. Although my dad always said you could tell the importance of any paper on his desk by the degree of coffee staining they had acquired. I always loved that :D

Now I'm off to see my college friend Tiff who is in town ever so shortly from China, where she's been doing Peace Corps work for the last 3ish years. She's a real good time and we're headed to the killer haunted houses down in Kansas City. YAY!