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Dine With a 60's Vibe!
For this project, I used a combination of Pure Elements solids from Art Gallery Fabrics and some prints from my newest collection Carnaby Street, enjoy and happy sewing. For these project you will need these fabric materials:
One (1) Fat Eighth of the following:
•CST-3102 Psychedelia Gold (Carnaby Street Collection)
•CST-3200 Brit Boutique Radiant (Carnaby Street Collection)
•CST-3204 Girl About Town Rose (Carnaby Street Collection)
•PE-405 Cherry Lipgloss (Pure Elements Collection)
•PE-424 Mirage Blue (Pure Elements Collection)
•½ yd of PE-408 White Linen
•Three (3) 11" square sheets of non-fusible batting
•Coaster Trapezoid Template (Attached)
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Step 1
INSTRUCTIONS (for coaster with a White Linen border)
Sew all right sides together with ¼" seam allowance. Press open.Cut the following:
Cut two (2) of each of the trapezoids in the template from PE-405 and PE-424
Cut CST-3102, CST-3200 and CST-3204 into 1 7/8" x WOF strips
Cut three (3) 11" squares from PE-408
Cut two (2) of each of the trapezoids in the template from PE-408
Cut three (3) 1 3/4" x WOF strips from PE-408 -
Step 2
Step 1. Grouping the strips
Make one group (A) that contains two CST-3102 strips and one CST-3200 strip. Make another group (B) that has one CST-3204 strip, one CST-3102 strip, and one CST-3200 strip.Step 2. Sewing the strips together
Once you have those two groups, piece the strips in order listed above. Place the fabrics RIGHT sides facing together and sew.Press all seams open.
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Step 3
Step 3. Cutting the strips
Once you have these long strips pieced, grad a ruler with a 60° mark and cut strips that measure 1 7/8" in width. To do this, you will cut the left corner of the fabric at a 60° angle with the slant ascending from left to right. Once that cut is done, you can proceed to use the ruler to make parallel cuts to create 1 7/8" strips.Cut six of these strips from Group A and 3 of these strips from Group B.
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Step 4
Step 4. Piecing together the strips
Make three groups of the new angled strips that contain two strips from Group A and one strip from group B.You will sew those strips together in order A-B-A, making sure the seams match. In order to do this, you will grab the first and second strip and place them RIGHT sides facing together, positioning them so that the first place that the needle in the machine hits is the exact ¼" intersection of both fabrics.
Once done sewing, you will add the third strip, repeating the previous step.
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Step 6
Step 5. Attaching the borders
For the borders, I have chosen a different color for each coaster. I will show how to construct the coaster that has the White Linen borders. For the other two coasters, simply use the trapezoid templates with the Cherry Lipgloss (PE-405) and Mirage Blue (PE-424).Grab the diamond and all of the pieces of the White Linen (PE-408) fabric that you cut with the template.
First, you will attach the smaller template pieces on opposite sides of the rhombus: the top right and the bottom left sides.
To attach these, simply align them tip to tip (RIGHT sides facing together) and sew.
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Step 8
For the longer template pieces, you will use the same technique used to piece the angled strips. Align both pieces (RIGHT sides facing together) so that they intersect at ¼" and put your needle down exactly at this point. Sew. When you are done, you should have a piece that looks like a hexagon!
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Step 13
Step 6. Binding your coasters
For this step, I did a double binding to create stability. Grab 1 3/4" x WOF strip of White Linen. Fold it in half, lengthwise, and start sewing it in the middle of one of the sides of the coaster on the back, aligning the strip's raw edges with the coaster's raw edges. Leave an approximated 3" tail. -
Step 17
Start sewing at ¼" of the border, stitching all the layers. Do the same in the six corners of each coaster.
Stop stitching before you reach the last 2 to 3 inches. Cut the threads and remove the coaster from under the machine presser foot. Lay those loose ends of the binding flat along the coaster edge, folding the ends back on themselves where they meet. Press them together to form a crease. Using this crease as the stitching line, sew the two open ends of the binding with RIGHT sides facing together (you can help yourself marking with a pencil if the crease is difficult to see).