Mug Rugs for Colleagues

Recently, I officially joined a new team in my company. I'd been seconded to work with the Training & Development department while my own area of the business was undergoing a redesign of our processes, and needed a trainer to train staff on the changes. When an opportunity arose for me to make my assignment permanent, I went for it and got the job!

To celebrate, and to thank my coworkers for being so welcoming and wonderful, I made them each a mug rug customized to their interests (e.g. Vancouver Whitecaps FC soccer, sailing), personalities (e.g. classic, sunshiney), tastes (e.g. purple, bling) or a particular fact about them (e.g. recent transplant to Canada from UK, meaning of their name). Here is a collage of the 10 (yes, 10) mugrugs I made.

They were *very* well received, I'm happy and proud to say. 

There are individual photos of each mug rug in my Flickr photostream. They're all my own design, and I sourced the foundation paper piecing patterns for the Maple Leaf here, the Union Jack here, and the sailboat here (I adjusted one sail slightly so they weren't the same size).