Tutorial: Vino Drinking Glass Coasters!

These coasters set the FUN inwards functional! 

Flannel industrial plant best for this project, but experience gratuitous to substitute whatever 100% cotton fiber textile of your choice. Tutorial is for 4 coasters.

 

You volition need:

• Either 1/2 yard of flannel textile or 1/3 yard EACH of two flannel fabrics washed in addition to ironed

• Coordinating thread

• Old CD or Circle Template

• Cardstock

• Pen

• Scissors

• Chopstick, retractable pen, Popsicle stick or anything else that volition help circular out the within curves 

• Iron 

1. Print out this Circle Template or detect an former CD, a pen in addition to some strong paper/cardboard. Spend a few minutes reminiscing nearly the songs you lot used to call to during freshman year. Remember Counting Crow's "Long December"?

After reminiscing, usage the CD to describe a circle on the strong paper. Cut out the circle. Congratulations, you lot guide maintain made your ain template!

Use the template to depict circles on the fabric. Draw the circles every bit closely together every bit possible. You volition involve five circles per coaster. If you lot are using two unlike fabrics, cutting iii circles of ane textile in addition to two of the other. Cut out the circles.

2. You should guide maintain five circles. Iron 4 circles just inwards half. Set aside the fifth circle.

3 in addition to 4. Lay out the folded circles just every bit they are shown inwards the pictures. Start past times laying ane on the correct side, laying the 2nd ane on overstep in addition to the 3rd on the left side.

5. Add the 4th circle to the bottom. Layer the correct side of the final circle UNDERNEATH the starting fourth dimension circle.

6 in addition to 7. Make certain your folded circles brand ane circular shape. Find the fifth (unfolded) circle.

8. Lay it (right side down) on overstep of the folded circles.

9 in addition to 10. Flip the whole affair over in addition to pin. Sew 1/4" seam approximately the edge. Back stitch.

11. Using a scissors, cutting curves approximately the stitched end. Or cutting out triangles, if you lot prefer. We but involve to cutting away excess textile (without cutting into the hem!!).

12. Open upwardly the oculus of the folded circles. Turn the whole affair within out.  

13. To continue the overnice circular shape, force out the curved edges amongst whatever tool you lot guide maintain at your disposal. 

14. Round-ish?

15. Top sew a 1/3 inch hem approximately the coaster. Back stitch.

16. Make some more!

Place the pes of a vino drinking glass within the folded circles. It volition guide maintain a flake of tugging but the pes should gibe snugly within the circles. 
 

Wrap them amongst a pretty ribbon in addition to foist them upon your friends!

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