Thanks for the great response on the Granny’s Style Rag Rug I posted a few days ago. Due to the request to come up with a tutorial, I woke up early this morning, took step-by-step photos to show you how to fold and sew those tiny triangles and make them into Triangle Fold Coaster.
Since I have limited fabric scraps to make a big piece of rag rug, I made a small one instead – a coaster. It’s a rushed job and not like my previous tutorials which would take up a few days to complete. I hope you will think that the quality is good…..
It is now late in the afternoon while I write this post, and I need some super-duper-booster-coffee to keep my eyes wide open.
Though I am tired and left my craft room in a mess because I need to rush out to work this morning. However, I am happy and contented with what I have done as long as it is related to creative handicraft and handmade.
Most importantly I have you to read my creations 🙂 So, throw more requests if you need one, I will put them in the “Things-To-Do List” and will plan for it 🙂
Triangle Fold Coaster
Materials and Tools:
1. Plenty of fabrics, it can be new fabric or fabric scraps you have collected
2. A pair of scissors
3. Iron
4. Some pins
5. Matching threads
6. Sewing machine
Cut the fabric to 2″ x 2.5″ size. If you want a bigger triangle, you can enlarge the dimension. Just like many creative handmade, there is no fixed dimension for the pattern, it all depends on your creation and how you want your design to be.
Fold it diagonally and iron it. In order to set the fabric into its triangle shape, I adjusted the heat of the iron to “High”. I ended up having some burn marks on the ironing board after I finished ironing all the triangles… need to get a new iron-board cover LOL…
Fold this way, iron again.
Lastly, fold again, and iron a little longer to set the shape.
This is another side of the triangle. Continue doing it until you finish a substantial amount of triangles enough to complete your entire project.
There you are, a pile of triangles ready for the coaster after an hour of hard work 🙂
For the coaster, we need to prepare a base (blue round shape) for sewing the triangles on. It can be round shape, or rectangle, or square, or just any shape you want as long you know how to arrange your triangle onto it.
Arrange the triangle onto the base with 1/3 overlapping on the next triangle. Adjust the position until the spacing and shape look balance. Secure it with some pins.
Machine sew it. It will be a little thick to go through the foot press. Press the paddle lightly, sew slowly following the curvature of the coaster base.
Repeat the triangle arrangement and machine sew for each layer.
This is the final layer of my coaster. After sewing it, I added a centerpiece to cover up all the messy frays of the triangles. Zig-zag sew the centerpiece and it is done 😉
Hope you enjoy sewing it!
I’m so glad that you made this tutorial. I really liked the round version. I hope to make a rug someday.
Thank you.
To be exact: prairie points are not folded like that – but a lovely, interesting pattern anyhow!
the triangles are called prairie points when quilting!
Cool! Thanks for the name, Crystal!
How about using a hair straightener for these tiny pieces? You could probably save your ironing board from a few burns using this method!
This is a great idea, Erica. If it works well, may be I can do it in front of the TV during commercial break 🙂
i just stumbled upon your site. love love love the tutorial. cant wait to make one for myself. sending your website to all my crafting friends. great tutorial. rag rug granny style.
I love it! it´s beutiful to do a rug too
Going to make these and attach them to pillows!
I was running through the net last night/early this morning which ever 2am sits at trying to find this pattern: http://www.straw.com/equilters/library/projectshare/coasterspatt.html when I came across yours. I had to save it to my favorites so I can make these for next Christmas I give away coasters to friends doesn’t cost much and they seem to enjoy it. My friend at work loved the ones this year she wanted the pattern (which sent me on the voyage into the net to find the other pattern. So I ended up sending her this one also. It’s great having another quilting buddy even if you end up giving the same thing to each other they are gonna be different! Thanks for your pattern. I’m sure we both will enjoy making them as gifts to our friends and family’s.
This is so sweet of you for making coaster as give-away gifts to friends and family 🙂 Wish that I get to see your coaster next Christmas 🙂
Really great! You are so clever!
Thank you, Sara 🙂
How beautyful, i like this flower so much, thanks for this tutorial.
Greets from Germany
Iris-Julimond
Hi Iris, all the way from Germany!!!! Thanks a lot!
Hey
Great idea to recycle old bits of fabric. and lovely design too!
Thanks
Tretha
Hope you like it and try it out soon yay!
This is what I am waiting for! Just too lovely and neat! Can I place an order?
Can be arranged!!!
I love this. I’ve had 2 small boxes of hand-dyed quilting fabric squares that have been waiting for a project for more than 5 years. They’ve found it!
Thank you so much for writing this & sharing it!
Wow!!! Glad to hear this and hope you will share with us soon 🙂
Awesome….I can’t wait to try this. I love it! I have vowed to make all of my Christmas gifts this year. This gives me one more idea! Thank you!
How about some Christmas tree ornaments??? Red and green!!!!
wah!you are my superhero
ha ha ha I am glad that I am 🙂
This is gorgeous!! And a great use for all of my fabric scraps!
I posted a link to your tutorial on Craft Gossip Sewing:
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-triangle-fold-sunburst-coaster/2009/09/12/
–Anne
Thanks for the link!!! I am so glad that you share it with your readers… btw, I am one of them too 🙂
I’m going to make many of them.
Glad to hear that you are making many of them!!!
I just love this tutorial. You could do so many things with this.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. Just a all around awesome idea. Hugs~ Dana
Sure, I love to share and get feedback from you all 🙂
I want to make the rug, but in sections so I can use magnets to hook them together; creating a larger area of a kitchen rug that can be easily pulled apart for washing. 🙂
What a brilliant idea!!!
Love it ♥ !!!!!
thanks!!!!
These would make some adorable placemats or hot pads! I have sooooo many ideas running thru my head! : )
Thank you for the inspiration!
Due to it’s thickness, it is definitely a good heat insulator to place something hot on top of it 🙂
absolutely adorable! In seasonal colors would be great!
Great idea 😮 how about for christmas!!! RED and GREEN!!!
Yippee! Thank you!!
you are welcome 🙂 just hope that you will love it!
Those are really pretty.
Thanks a lot 🙂
will have a look have always wanted to try one of these rugs.
Hope you will like it 🙂
What’s the experience level, beginner or advanced?
I would say at least intermediate level.
I am so impressed with your will power to wake up so early to fullfil your reader’s request. I salute you!! It is definitely a great tutorial for a beginning like me!
You should try this and make a rug rag for your kitchen floor 🙂
Wow! That looks great! It’s good that you made it coaster size, instead of a rug. Thanks for the tutorial!
You are welcome…. be sure to look out for my next post for similar project 🙂
thanks for posting! will try this one too 🙂
Feed back to me how it turn out under your crafty hands yay 🙂
Thank you for this! Might try it out in the future.
Hope you will try it out and tell me how it turns out 🙂
Thank you.:) I’m just beginning to learn how to sew at the moment.
Congratulation, you have made the right start 🙂
That coaster is “pretty”!!!!! 😀
Thanks 🙂