Felt Coasters

This idea actually started because of people leaving their McDonald's cups and other glasses on my dinning room table and I had marks all over because of the condensation  coming off the cup and puddling up on my table....Not Good!!!

So, I decided to give my daughter a task of making some coasters.  

(as you can see she is not quite finished with all of them yet...)

Years ago my oldest daughter had made some trivets using felt and layering them...(circles).  I decided to pick up where she left off and try to make coasters the same way.

I told my daughter the shape I wanted her to use and we picked out the color pallet that we were going to go with....my idea was "oceany" kind of colors.

She made a pattern out of cardstock.  They are 5", 4", 3" &  2" squares.

And then choosing what colors she wanted to go together and cutting the sizes accordingly.

Start by sewing the 4" square to the 5" and then keep stacking them.  

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(Below is our dog....)

They were sewn together using a large running stitch around them.  If you wanted to use a matching color to each piece of felt, you could do that, so that your stitches wouldn't be seen.

As you'll notice they are all the same colors, but not put in the same order.

A little designs was put in the middle of each one.  

These were done free hand.

She sewed the little details on, but I think you could also glue them on 

with Aileen's tacky glue

(I was also trying to figure out how to put a piece of cork on the bottom just to give some extra "insurance" that it wouldn't get water on the table.but I'm hopeful that all the layers of felt with stop the drips.)

So I thank my Amy girl for doing these for me and hopefully I won't have white water marks on my table anymore.  :-)