Nursery Mug Rug

For my next trick, the world’s biggest mug rug! I wanted to make a 12 x 8” mug rug for the nursery, since we tend to collect receptacles on my daughter’s nightstand: baby bottles, glasses in which we rewarmed milk, grownup water bottles, etc.

I used scraps from the Granny Core Quilt to put together this rising-sun mug rug:

I am positively thrilled by two things on this one:

1. Starting and finishing a project in the same day 💪
2. Trying pieced curves for the first time, and having my half-circle turn out as intended on the first go! Really proud of this one.

For the half circle, I followed some general directions for templates and piecing from Simple Geometric Quilting by Laura Preston. When I got to the actual piecing, I thought I understood how the book wanted me to scootch my sun around the seam as I sewed it to the background. Thankfully, tons of people share their knowledge publicly on YouTube, and so this video confirmed I had the right idea.

So that’s a goal ticked off my 2026 list (piecing curves) and an object we’re already getting a ton of use out of!