Yarn and Cork Coasters

Kristie Hudson

5 years ago

Welcome to the October Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop {and y’all too} to not just pin, but to make it happen! Look below for a list of past challenges. This month I decided to make some yarn and cork coasters for a quick & easy gift.

Past Challenges

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Being that Christmas is right around the corner, I was looking for a project that could double as a gift. I spotted this pin on my DIY Gifts board & thought they were the perfect thing!

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Yarn and Cork Coasters

The original post from Moogly is for Nautical Crochet Coasters and she cut out her own cork circles. I had these heart coasters with fun coffee prints in my stash already. They came with some sort of creamer promotional stuff, I think.

The first thing I needed to do was punch holes around the edge. I just spaced them evenly since I was using a different shape. Well, as evenly as I could eyeball it!

Punching holes in cork is surprisingly satisfying! I’m keeping the cork dots – I think they’ll be useful one day. 🙂

In the original post she used a cotton yarn. Cotton yarn is the best to use for something that may have hot items on it. It’s also great for sweating glasses because it is very absorbent.

I pulled some Lion Brand Re-Up from my stash along with a random Kartopu cotton. This was just because I wanted every coaster to be a different color. I also used a size 7/4.5 mm hook instead of the I-9/5.5 mm for my coasters. It seemed to fit through the holes better than the larger hook & still worked well with the yarn.

Also, be sure to put the holes far enough away from the edge. I pulled through one while crocheting even though I was being easy with it. Urggg!

All in all, I really like how these turned out! There were four different patterns in the original post & I did all but one. The green one is just a repeat of the orange one. It was a more open pattern & I didn’t think it looked good on the heart.

Of course, I also broke out one of the holes, so that didn’t help! I also realized after I tied it off that I left a loop off the blue one. Maybe I’ll just keep these & look for a cork sheet in the store tomorrow, ha ha! Be sure to check out all the other blogger’s projects below!