Mug rugs are practical and add a handmade touch to your home. Mug rugs make great last-minute gifts for holidays, birthdays, housewarmings, or for anytime for your favorite hot-beverage lover. This tutorial is divided into 3 parts: how to sew an easy mug rug, how to crochet onto fabric, and how to crochet a lovely shell stitch border.

Finished Size
6” (15 cm) before adding crochet border; approximately 7.5” (19 cm) square after adding crochet border.

Tools
Sewing machine.
45 mm Rotary Cutter, Acrylic Ruler, and Cutting Mat OR fabric scissors and marking pen.

Clover Flower Head Pins.

Furls Turquoise and Rose Gold Odyssey US Size G-6/4 mm crochet hook, or size appropriate for your yarn.

Clover Bent-Tip Darning Needle or embroidery needle with large eye.

June Tailor Skip-Cut Rotary Cutter Blade for Wide Spaced Cuts
Basic sewing supplies (seam ripper, thread snips, etc.).

Materials
Michael Miller Fabrics Tropical Bliss in Black from the Lost in Paradise collection. NOTE: A half 1/2 yard or fat quarter cut will make several mug hugs.

Fairfield Quilter’s 80/20 Batting - Small 45” x 60”.

100% cotton thread in a color that coordinates or contrasts with fabric for sewing machine.

King Cole Cottonsoft DK yarn (100% cotton, 3.5 oz/100 g, 229 yd/210 m) – 1 skein in 3459 Magenta, or approximately 20 yd (18.5 m) in any light weight cotton yarn. NOTE: Each skein makes 10-12 mug rug borders.