a little quilted hug!

I love flowers.

I like to give flowers.
But I can't easily send these in the mail.
I CAN send something made from fabric!

I was visiting my dear Mother-in-law this week.
She had some cute little coasters on her coffee table.
I admired and tried to figure out how they were constructed.

They looked pretty simple...
so....
I thought it would be nice to send a
quilted hug to MY
new daughter-in-law.




I cut six 4" squares for the back of these coasters.

I cut six 4" squares out of all that left over batting.

I cut four 4" SQUARES of fabric for EACH of the coasters.

(don't let this picture lead you to believe

they are triangles!)

4x6 = 24

12 of one fabric

12 from a contrasting fabric

Then I ironed these in half diagonally to make those

triangles.

Now we can layer!

Batting.

Back of coaster - right side up!

First triangle.

second triangle.

third triangle.

last triangle.

You have to tuck this one in.



Pin, pin, pin.

Sew around this square.

I did not use a walking foot....

but maybe I should have.

lazy, lazy, lazy.

Trim those corners.

Turn right side out.

I used a bamboo skewer to poke out those corners.

Here they are!

Hope my new daughter-in-law

feels loved when she opens this up!

I tried them out....

They WORK!