Easy Crochet Flower Coasters

June 24, 2023 No Comments

These easy Crochet Flower Coasters are pretty and the perfect summer project to brighten up your space.

I have seen many beautiful flower coasters all over Pinterest and Instagram. They are so simple yet beautiful. I have been looking for an easy pattern and tried a few, but did not find the perfect pattern until now!

I was really excited to come across this pattern, I first saw it on Instagram on Leonela Cevallos’s page. She makes beautiful crochet things! I immediately knew I had to try it out. Leonela has a YouTube channel, Leonela Cevallos, she shares this pattern with us in one of her videos. She does a great job with all the details. Thank you Leonela for sharing this beautiful pattern with us for free.

It is a simple-to-follow pattern, all you need to know is:

: How to make a Magic circle (MC)

: Chain(CH)

: Single crochet (SC)

: Half double crochet (HDC)

: Double crochet (DC)

: Slip stitch (SL)

If you are a beginner or want to learn to crochet, please check out my blog posts on learning how to crochet

and Learn the Basic Crochet Stitches

WHAT SUPPLIES DO YOU NEED TO MAKE THESE CROCHET FLOWER COASTERS?

Crochet hook size 4.5mm

Cotton yarn (I am using I love this Cotton Yarn from Hobby Lobby)

Yarn needle

Scissors

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HOW DO YOU MAKE THESE CROCHET FLOWER COASTERS?

This is not my pattern, so I cannot write it on my page, however, I am providing the link to Leonela’s video, Crochet Tutorial: How to make quick and easy crochet flower coasters.

Do watch the video and learn how to crochet these beautiful coasters.

If you want the written pattern, Leonela has provided a detailed blog post with step by step pictures which you can find here Crochet Flower Coasters

You can use different color combinations. This is by far the easiest and best-looking flower coaster tutorial that I have tried.

Once you make a few and learn the pattern, you can easily make one in under 15 minutes.

I loved the ease of this pattern so much, I made so many color combinations as you can see!

Notes:

Use cotton yarn if you are using these as coasters. They are washable and reusable. Acrylic yarn is not recommended and is not usually used when making coasters, hot pads, or trivets as they are not heat resistant.

You could make these flowers and string them together to create a flower garland to decorate your home, it would look really pretty.

If you want to make the flowers smaller or bigger just use a thinner yarn with a smaller hook or a thicker yarn with a bigger hook. This holds good for any crochet project.

Weave in your ends in 3 different directions so that they are secure even if washed.

TIP: To keep your yarn needle and scissors together, add a magnet to your scissors, you will never lose your needle! (You can see my picture above in supplies needed) Let me know if this tip was helpful!

Hope you will try these out, I promise you that this is one of the easiest and best flower coaster patterns I have tried.

If you happen to try them out please share and tag the original creator Leonela Cevallos. Also share with me on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram @lovetostayhome. You can leave me a comment down below, I love hearing from you and will surely respond.

If you love to crochet and need some tried and tested patterns to inspire you, check out some of my other blog posts:

5 Easy Crochet Scrunchies

Easy Crochet Pumpkins

Granny Square Flower Crochet Bag

10 Crochet Coaster Patterns

Sunflower Crochet Coasters

Spring Flower Crochet Garland

Crochet Car Coasters

Crochet Keychains & Wristlets

3 Easy Crochet Bookmarks

5 Useful Crochet Projects

Thank you for reading and hope you have a wonderful and creative day!!

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Crochet

Sunflower Crochet Coasters

April 24, 2022 No Comments

These Crochet Sunflower Coasters will certainly brighten up any space in your home for Spring and Summer! The Sunflower is such a beautiful vibrant flower, so why not have these sunflowers in your home, they will never fade away! 😁

Coasters are so versatile. Apart from the most common use for your cups/mugs, these coasters can also be used for other things like candles, small plant pots, jewelry trays, little trinkets, etc.

They just liven up any space that they are in.

This is a simple crochet pattern. Easy enough for beginners too! If you would like to learn crochet, do check out my two beginner posts:

Learn How to Crochet

Learn the Basic Crochet Stitches

What are the supplies needed for these Crochet Sunflower Coasters?

Brown yarn (The yarn I used is from HobbyLobby I love this cotton, Brown)

Yellow yarn (This one is from Hobby Lobby too, its name is Curry)

Crochet hook size 4.25mm or 4.5mm

Scissors

Yarn needle

Here are my Amazon picks for this project:

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How do you make these Crochet Sunflower Coasters?

The pattern I followed is from a video tutorial on YouTube. It is from the channel Butterfly Craft DIY. You can find it here.

There are many tutorials on Pinterest and YouTube for Sunflower Coasters, believe me, I tried quite a few! In the end, I liked the look of these coasters. They are easy to make and are just the right size. (They are actually bigger than regular coasters, but since sunflowers are big flowers I think they look nice bigger.)

These Crochet Sunflower Coasters are available in my Etsy shop! If you would like to check them out, do visit my shop, HappyKnotsandLoops.

If you try out these coasters, please share them with me on Instagram or Facebook. I would love to see it! Also, be sure to tag the ButterflyCraftDIY Youtube channel on Instagram.

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Here are some other Coasters that you might be interested in making:

Crochet Car Coasters

Independence Day Crochet Coasters

Crochet Christmas Star Coasters

Easy Macrame Coasters

5 Useful Crochet Projects

Have a wonderful and creative day friends!!

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Art/Crafts & DIY

5 DIY Jute Home Decor Ideas

March 3, 2022 No Comments

Here are 5 DIY Jute Home Decor Ideas that you can make with jute string.

Jute string is a natural material and can be used in many ways, the most common way of using jute string is probably to tie up packages. But you can use it in many more ways than just that, as you can see below.

It is always better to reuse something than to just throw it away. Especially in today’s world where there is so much plastic, making something out of natural material is always better for the environment and it looks so much better in my opinion.

5 DIY JUTE HOME DECOR IDEAS:

MINI JUTE BASKETS:

These little baskets are perfect for holding your earrings or anything small. They are very easy to make and only need two things, jute string, and glue!

All you have to do is use hot glue and wrap the string in a spiral around itself. When you have a circle big enough for a basket, wrap the jute string on top of itself in a circular motion so you get the sides of the basket. Wrap it as much as you want the height of the basket to be.

When done just finish off with a dab of glue.

JUTE PENCIL HOLDER

This pencil holder is a tin can covered with jute string. There are many ways to make it your own, use paint, beads, markers, ribbon., etc to design your pencil holder.

Wrap the tin can with jute string from top to bottom using hot glue or regular glue. Then decorate however you please!

Use it on your desk for your pens and pencils. It can be used for faux flowers, makeup brushes., etc.

Jute string pencil holder — I used a crocheted flower and a thumbtack in the middle to decorate this pencil holder.

FARMHOUSE WOODEN BEAD GARLANDS:

I have already posted about this wooden bead garland before. To read all about it and how to make it, click here.

It makes a great piece of decor in any room of your house.

JUTE-COVERED DECOR BALLS:

My daughter at one point was obsessed with LOL dolls, but now she cannot believe that she actually liked playing with them! 😂

Anyway, the dolls come in these pink plastic balls. So I decided instead of throwing them out, I can recycle them. I covered them with jute string and voilà home decor accents to use in your vases!

All you have to do is wrap the balls using the jute string. I used a hot glue gun.

Here also you can add ribbon, sequins, paint., etc to decorate them.

JUTE COASTERS:

Coasters are just so useful and can be made out of pretty much anything! These jute coasters have that farmhouse feel and are easy to make.

I used a felt circle as a base to make it more sturdy. You can also use a corkboard to make it even better.

After that wrap the jute string around itself in a circular motion using hot glue, keep wrapping until you get the size you need. Cut the string and glue it.

Jute coasters — I painted a green triangle on the coaster using acrylic paint.

I came across this idea of wrapping the jute string with thread in sections, this makes a really cool coaster too, do check it out on HGTV.com

Hope you liked reading about these 5 ideas to use up any jute string you have lying around!

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If you like DIYs, please check out my other easy DIY Projects:

DIY Faux Ceramic Vases

DIY Paper Boxes and Felt Baskets for Organizing!

Easiest felt flower tutorial

Small Embroidery Projects

DIY Beautiful Envelopes

DIY Tassel Earrings

Hand-Stitched Scrunchies

DIY Paper Bunny Garland

Thank you for being here! Have a wonderful day!

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Crochet

5 Useful Crochet Projects

June 1, 2021 No Comments

Crochet Projects gallery — Key ring lanyard

These 5 Useful Crochet Projects are easy to do and make great handmade gifts for your family and friends!

Crochet is one of those hobbies with which you can make a lot of useful things. You can make them in whichever color you want to match your decor or your style.

There are so many free patterns available, all you have to do is search on google, or if you are a visual person like me search on Pinterest.

I have saved so many patterns that I wonder if I will ever be able to try all of them!

However, I am sharing the patterns that I have tried and liked. Thank you to these wonderful designers who have shared these patterns for free! Please do visit their websites to get the patterns. I will provide the links below.

Here are the 5 Useful Crochet Projects that I have tried and loved:

Crochet Potholder

This potholder is really thick and made of cotton yarn. Cotton yarn is recommended for making potholders. This pattern is worked in the round with just single crochet! So it is easy to do and can be made in a few hours if you have the time. It actually took a few days as I worked on it maybe around an hour every day for about 3 to 4 days. I used almost one whole skein of cotton yarn. I bought my yarn at Walmart.

You can find the pattern here: Super Easy Crochet Potholder

Crochet Coasters/Mug Rugs

I absolutely love the way these turned out! You can make these really fast, I think I made 2 a day probably just working on them for about an hour or 2. These were easy to make, and you just add tassels to make them look really cute.

Make sets of these to give as gifts, I’m sure your family and friends will love this useful beautiful gift.

The pattern is by Amanda at Love & Stitch.com and can be found here. The Darcie mug rug

Key Ring Wrist Lanyard

Have you ever had to go out somewhere with just your keys and not have anywhere to put them? If you didn’t have any pockets or if you didn’t want to carry your handbag. I’ve been in this situation many times when taking my kids to the park. I always ended up carrying my keys in my hand. These lanyards work up very fast and can solve this problem. So now I just put my keys on this lanyard and slide it on my wrist. This makes a really useful gift. You can make several of these in a day. It took less than 30 minutes to make one.

This pattern is from Lisa at Stitch in Progress, it can be found here.

Cotton Bath Scrubbies

These bath scrubbers are so quick to do, you can make one in 10 minutes. Make them in different colors.

I found that these do not lather very well, so I tried one with acrylic yarn, which worked a little better. Let me know if you find the perfect yarn to make these.

I am all for reducing my plastic waste, so I started using these instead of plastic loofahs which are really bad for the environment.

This pattern is by Marie at Makes and Takes, You can find the pattern here Crochet Bath Scrubbies

UPDATE: After a lot of trials and errors, I have finally found the bath scrubber that works well! So I have an entire post on them, Bath Scrubbers Do check it out.

Scrunchies

Scrunchies have become very popular nowadays. These velvet scrunchies as so soft and can be made in less than half an hour. These make great gifts too. You can make them in several colors, not just velvet but lots of other yarns too.

This pattern is by Marianne at Yarnworx Studio. You can find her pattern here Velvety Scrunchies

UPDATE: These velvet scrunchies are now available in my Etsy shop!

Hope you enjoyed reading about these projects and will try some of them out.

A huge thank you to all the designers for sharing these amazing patterns for free.

Please support them by visiting their websites.

Thank you so much for visiting!!

If you don’t know how to crochet and would like to learn, please read this Learn how to crochet

and Learn the Basic Crochet Stitches

Crochet is fun and a great stress buster! I am sure you will not regret learning!:)

Happy Crocheting!