Christmas tutorial week 3

Christmas coasters

I like to give presents with a theme, a little collection of like minded gifts, these coasters are to go with bottles of wine and china mugs and a nice box of speciality tea. You don't have to make them with christmas fabric, but they work best with standard weight cotton nothing to thick as this makes the seams bulky and you end up with an uneven surface for your cup or glass.

You will need for one coaster a 10cm x 10cm piece of felt, wadding or double layer of sewin interfacing all work fine, a piece of cotton fabric 22cm x 16cm ( do not cut across the grain of the fabric) , sewing cotton.

 On both sides fold over a 3cm edge on the 22cm side and press well with your iron.

 Open out the fabric and fold over so the 16cm sides are together and sew, 1cm seam allowance, make sure you do a little back stitch at the beginning and the end.

Very carefully press open the seam, you do not want to iron out the lines you made earlier as they are your guide for the next step.

Turn your fabric the right way and then tuck in your padding using the ironed lines as a guide pin in place. Make sure your seam is in the middle this will be the bottom. Fold in the edges keeping all the fabric on the bottom of the coaster and using your fingers to flatten out the tucked in fabric.

Now sew a line 1cm in on the two tucked in edges, again a little back stitch at the beginning and end of sewing.

These are really easy to make and a great gift in sets of six.

NOTE; if you buy a skinny quarter of cotton fabric ( approx 25cm x 112cm) you can usually get 6 coaster out of it.

Have fun making these, hope the instructions are clear, they really are that easy

Happy sewing

Debs

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Have fun Debsx