Triangle Fold Coaster

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!