Daisy Coaster Guide & Tutorials

Welcome to the guide for your DAISY Moss Coaster Kit!

Below you will find all the information you need to create your own pink, fluffy 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 and grass green

⭐ Chenille yarn in grass green

⭐ Milk yarn in 5x colours (bubblegum pink, pastel yellow, soft blue, apple green and sage green)

⭐ Pipecleaners in white and warm yellow

⭐  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.

Daisy Coaster

Daisy Moss Coaster 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: Fuzzy Loops (using grass green chenille yarn)

Step 2: 'Hair' Moss (using light green milk yarn)

Step 3: 'Hair' Moss (using sage green milk yarn)

 

Step 4: Feather Yarn Grass (using grass green feather yarn)

Step 5: Feather Yarn Grass (using light green feather yarn)

Step 6: Pipe Cleaner Daisies (using white & yellow pipe cleaners)

Step 8: Adding Pom Poms (using bubblegum pink, pastel yellow and soft blue 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 Fuzzy Loops

To start off your kit you're going to be stitching the Fuzzy Loops in the top corners of your coaster. For this step you'll need your grass green chenille yarn and your latch-hooking tool. Watch the video below to learn the technique.

2. Creating 'Hair' Moss - Light Green

This next textured section will be familiar to you if you've done one of our latch-hooking kits before! But if this is your first time latch-hooking don't fret, its a really simple technique that creates a beautifully shaggy effect.

You'll be using your light green milk yarn to create the first patch of 'Hair' Moss on the top of your coaster. Cut the yarn into equal pieces using the video below. You'll be using 2x pieces per stitch to give a more dense feel. In order to make 2x pieces more manageable we use a different style of latch-hooking with this hook.

TIP: Because this coaster has a whole lot of 'hair' moss, you can create a rectangle template for trimming your yarn pieces to get it snipped even faster. To do this, cut a piece of cardboard that is approximately 1.5 inch across and 5 inches long. Take your milk yarn and wrap it around and around the 1.5 inch length of the cardboard, once its covered take your scissors and cut all along one edge. You'll be left with a bunch of 3 inch pieces! How easy was that?!

Trimming: You can either trim your latch-hooked knots as you go, or all at once at the end. We recommend giving them a very small trim first, and if you're unhappy with the length trimming them again. You can always cut your yarn shorter, but if you trim it too much on the first snip, you cant add the length back again! So snip wisely.

3. Creating 'Hair' Moss - Light Green

Time to repeat your shaggy 'Hair' Moss but this time using your sage green yarn! Snip up a bundle of your sage green yarn in the same length pieces, approximately 3inches each using a 1.5inch cardboard piece. Then latch-hook away!

4. Weaving your Feather Yarn Grass - Grass Green

Now it's time to weave in the Feather Yarn 'Grass' on your mossy coaster. You'll be using your grass green feather yarn to cover the area at the top of your coaster. These feather yarn patches will be nice and flat so you can rest your mug on them.

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.

5. Weaving your Feather Yarn Grass - Light Green

Time to rinse and repeat, meaning more Feather Yarn 'Grass'! Weave the remaining space on your coaster with your light green yarn. When stitching the edge of your two colours you can choose to keep the curved boarder nice and clear or blend the greens together to give a shaded look.

6. Making Pipe Cleaner Daisies

Woohoo! You've officially made it to your decorative elements of your kit. There's only a couple more steps before you've finished your mossy oasis.

Now its time to create your own 3D Pipe Cleaner Daisies to add dimension and texture to your piece. Using the yellow and white pipe cleaners included in your kit, watch the video below to learn the technique.

TIP: There are a few variations of your daisies that you might want to consider!

  • Flat or Curved Daisies: Keeping your daisies flat means that you can attach them anywhere on your grassy space. You can still place a mug on top and your coaster will be functional. If you choose to curve your daisies and make them 3D, remember to attach them onto your coaster in a space that won't be used for your mug. So keep them to the edges of the grassy space.
  • Large or Small Daisies: Our tutorial shows you how to make both large and small daisies. Each Large Daisy will use 1.5 white pipe cleaners and each Small Daisy will use 0.75 white pipe cleaners, so you can choose how many you would like to make of each. We recommend 2x large and 2x small.

7. Adding Pom Poms

You're on the home stretch! It's time to add the finishing touch to your coaster - Pom Poms. 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 Yellow Small Looped Pom Poms

Start by snipping a short length of soft blue yarn and placing it in between your first and second fingers - this yarn will contrast and become the middle of your pom pom flowers. Take your pastel yellow milk yarn and wrap it around your two fingers approx. 30x. Using that length of blue yarn in between your fingers, tie a loose knot around your pom pom and remove it from your fingers. Tighten the knot to secure the loops. Trim the loose yarn but leave the rest of the loops intact to give a flowery effect.

2x Pink Small Looped Pom Pom

This pom pom is exactly the same as your yellow one but using bubblegum pink yarn instead. Use the contrasting soft blue yarn for the length between your fingers. Then wrap your bubblegum pink yarn approx. 30x around your two fingers. Secure and tie off, leaving the loops intact again.

 

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

 

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.