Springtime Coaster Guide & Tutorials
Welcome to the guide for your SPRINGTIME Moss Coaster Kit!
Below you will find all the information you need to create your own fresh and luscious oasis to display on your desk or coffee table. We've designed this kit to be used as a coaster but it also makes a gorgeous decor piece for your wall or even as a landscape for miniatures.
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Inside Your Kit
Your moss kit includes ...
Materials & Fibre:
⭐ Latch-hooking canvas base
⭐ Felt backing
⭐ Feather yarn in light green, soft orange and pastel yellow
⭐ Milk yarn in 5x colours (bubblegum pink, coral pink, pastel yellow, warm yellow, bright green)
⭐ Bobble yarn in a variegated warm green colour
⭐ White cotton thread
Tools:
⭐ Pom pom scissors
⭐ Small latch-hook (different tool from our other kits)
⭐ Weaving needle
⭐ Steel sewing needles
⭐ Glue spatula
⭐ Glue stick for hot glue gun (optional)
Learning:
⭐ Online instructions and video tutorials
⭐ Pattern template
Optional additions:
Our kits come with everything needed to sew the coaster backing on, but you may want to use fabric glue or hot glue if you have it handy.
You may also want to use sharp craft scissors for cutting your base. Our embroidery scissors are perfect for this project because they're small but have a sharp blade.
Springtime Coaster
Springtime Moss Kit Intro: ✨
What you'll find inside your kit:
Transferring your Stencil
Your first step is to transfer your coaster design from the stencil onto your latch-hooking canvas. To do this you'll need your canvas and a marker of some kind. We recommend using a sharpie or similar permanent marker, but a regular pen or drawing marker will work just fine.
Simply lay the canvas on top of your stencil and use the marker to trace the design behind it. The stencil matches our design with the smaller shapes roughly indicating where we will stitch each type of 'moss' in the following steps.
Feel free to get creative with the shape of your design, as your coaster doesn't have to be exactly like the stencil. You could make it a little larger or smaller depending on how you'd like to use it. Just remember to leave a 1/2 inch space between your coaster shape and the edge of the canvas.
TIP: Why not move the smaller shapes around within your coaster? You can get creative with the layout.
Step-By-Step Guide
Below you'll find each of the steps to making your coaster, with recommendations on the order to stitch each element. If you're a newbie to crafting it will be worth following this step-by-step, so that you can get comfortable with the techniques and tools used in this kit.
If you want to create your own variations, you can stitch each section in whichever order you want. So don't feel constrained by our guidelines.
Step 1: Bobbles (using warm green bobble yarn)
Step 2: Feather Yarn Grass (using light green feather yarn)
Step 3: Feather Yarn Grass (using soft orange feather yarn)
Step 4: Feather Yarn Grass (using pastel yellow feather yarn)
Step 5: Adding Pom Poms (using green, bubblegum pink, coral pink, pastel orange and warm yellow milk yarn)
Step 6: Embroidering Flowers (using white, bubblegum pink, coral pink and yellow milk yarn)
You can also use the image below to see the details of each element on your coaster.
Step-By-Step Video Guide
This video will give you a step-by-step overview of exactly how to finish your coaster! If you're already familiar with the techniques used for moss kits, this video will be the perfect guide to help you finish.
This video will show you the steps, but it is NOT a tutorial for the techniques. For detailed tutorials, please use the videos below. Each step will have a detailed tutorial attached so that you can fully understand the technique if this is your first time making a mossy creation.
1. Weaving Bobbles
To start your coaster, you'll be stitching the textured Bobbles on the sides of your coaster. You can stitch these patches in any order, but try to make the cluster on the left a little larger than the cluster on the right to achieve the same look as our coaster. Follow the tutorial below to learn how to add your bobbles.
TIP: Remember to space out your bobbles as they take up quite a bit of room. You won't see any of the gaps in between each bobble ones the stitches are complete.
2. Weaving your Feather Yarn Grass - Light Green
Now it's time to weave in the 'grass' on your mossy coaster - these grassy areas are where your mug will sit flat on your coasters. For this first section you'll be using your light green feather yarn to cover the two green spaces.
Follow the below video tutorial to learn how to weave your grass section. Its a very simple technique, using your weaving needle you'll be stitching back and forth to cover the canvas section.
3. Weaving your Feather Yarn Grass - Warm Orange
Next you'll be using the exact same technique to fill in the soft orange section of your coaster. When stitching near the edges, you can either choose to create a sharp line like we have done on our coaster, or you can blend the light green and warm orange together with stitches that overlap.
3. Weaving your Feather Yarn Grass - Pastel Yellow
Time to finish your grassy sections by filling in the pastel yellow space. Once again you can choose to make the edges of your wavy shape nice and crisp, or give them a blended effect.
TIP: Once you've stitched your entire grass section, you can use your extra feather yarn to add shading or blend your colours. You can even add some contrasting lines to give your coaster more dimension.
4. Adding Pom Poms
Now we're moving on to the decorative elements of your coaster! Starting with the pom poms to the edge of the piece. Below I've listed the types of pom poms that we have used on our coaster, but remember that you can customise these any way you like!
2x Green Small Pom Poms
Start by snipping a short length of yarn and placing it in between your first and second fingers. Take your light green milk yarn and wrap it around your two fingers approx. 30x. Using that length of yarn in between your fingers, tie a loose knot around your pom pom and remove it from your fingers. Tighten the knot to secure and trim the loops. Finally give your pom pom a trim with your pink scissors to make it nice and even!
1x Pink Veriegated Pom Pom
This pom pom begins in the same way, by placing a short length of yarn between your first and second fingers. Take the ends of your bubblegum pink yarn and coral pink yarn, and wrap them around your fingers approx. 15x (remember with two colours of yarn, this becomes 30x loops around). Secure your pom pom and trim the loops as you did with the previous pom pom.
1x Yellow Veriegated Pom Pom
This last pom pom is done in the same style as your previous two, but this time using your pastel yellow and warm yellow yarn. Wrap both yarn ends around your fingers approx. 15x (creating 30x loops) and secure. Trim your pom pom ends.
TIP: Variations you might want to try with your pom poms include:
- Yarn colours used, including the colour you use to place between your finger
- Density of your pom pom (more or less loops around your fingers)
- Size of your pom pom (using two or four fingers)
- Trimming your pom pom or keeping it looped
5. Embroidering Flowers
You're almost at the finish line! It's time to start embroidering the final details of your coaster. We recommend starting with your white milk yarn and creating your first three flowers first - follow the video tutorial below for the exact technique. We've used 4x petals on our flowers but feel free to add 5x or 6x petals to yours if you prefer. Once you're happy with the placement of your white petals, add your two coral pink petals and finally your single bubblegum pink petals. Next using your warm yellow milk yarn its time to add the flower centres with yellow french knots. This technique can be tricky but there is lots of yarn in your kit so give it a few practice goes! Its easy to snip off your knot and try again if needed.
TIP: If you don't like the placement of your flowers, remember that it can be easy to remove your stitches by either cutting off your needle and pulling them out or using scissors to snip them off it they feel stuck. We've included enough yarn in your kit to experiment with!
Backing your Coaster
Congratulations on finishing the main part of your coaster! Now you're onto the home stretch, its time to sew the back of your coaster.
There are 2x steps to finishing your coaster, which we show in the below tutorial. First you'll need to roughly trim the canvas edging and sew it down to the back of your piece.
Then it's time to back your coaster with your felt either with glue or by sewing it. If you're using it as a decor piece or to hang on the wall, it may be better for you to leave it at it's current stage. It will be easier to hang on a wall hook if the back is free from felt.
Sewing your Backing
Our kit includes all of the supplies you need to sew the backing of your coaster.
To sew your fabric you'll want to trace the shape of your coaster so that you can cut out the felt fabric to match the shape. You can do this with a pencil or pen.
You will then need to pin your felt backing to your coaster so you can begin sewing the edges. You can do this by using sewing pins, bulldog clips or even tacking the back with a hot-glue gun. I find bulldog clips the easiest method of holding my coaster to the felt.
Using 3-strands of your cotton thread, begin stitching your canvas to your mossy coaster using a whip stitch. This just means that you will whip your thread around and around the edge of your coaster as you go around. Don't worry if your stitches don't look perfectly neat, they'll blend into the grass on your coaster and won't be visible when you're finished.
Gluing your Backing
If you have any fabric glue handy or a hot glue gun then you can also glue the backing of your coaster. We've included a glue stick for a standard craft hot glue gun, as well as a glue paddle if you have fabric glue.
To glue your fabric you'll simply place fabric glue across the middle of your felt square and place your coaster on top. Allow it to dry so that the coaster is secure - you may want to put a heavy book on top of your coaster to add pressure. Once it's dry you can take a sharp pair of scissors to cut around the coaster.
You can then top up the glue on the edges, if any sections are lifting up.