Tulip 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 even coloured pen 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 guide, 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! Don't feel constrained by our guidelines.

Step 1: Bobbles (using green bobble yarn)

Step 2: Feather Yarn Grass (using light green, grass green, forest green and soft brown feather yarn)

Step 3: Adding Pom Poms (using light sage, dark sage, light green, yellow and white milk yarn)

Step 4: Embroidery Flowers (using white milk yarn)

Step 5: Pipe Cleaner Tulips (using light pink, blush pink, light green and dark green pipe cleaners)

Step 6: Adding Extra Looped Pom Poms (using light sage and dark sage 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 at the top left and right of your coaster using your green bobble yarn and your latch-hook tool. You'll be using a little more than half your bobbles for the top-right side, and a little less for the left side. Follow the video tutorial below to learn the technique.

 

2. Weaving your Feather Yarn Grass

Now it's time to weave in the Feather Yarn 'Grass' on your mossy coaster. You'll be using all four colours of your feather yarn to cover the entire blank space on your coaster. This will be where your mug will sit as its flat and stable. And any decorative elements we are adding will all be flat as well.

We recommend starting with your dark forest green feather yarn grass, and working your way down the coaster. Follow it with your soft brown yarn, then grass green and finally the light green patch at the bottom.

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. Adding Trimmed Pom Poms

Now we're moving on to the decorative elements! Starting with adding a range of fluffy Pom Poms to your 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!

If you're using a set of our pom pom makers, we recommend using the second-smallest size for this project (the green size) and wind approximately 30x loops around each end.

2x Sage Variegated Pom Poms

Start by snipping a short length of milk yarn and placing it in between your first and second fingers. Take the ends of your light sage yarn and dark sage yarn, and wrap them around your fingers approx. 15x (this makes 30x loops total around your finger). 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 Yellow Variegated Pom Pom

This pom pom uses the exact same technique as the previous sage ones, but this time using your pastel yellow and white milk yarn.

1x Light Green Pom Pom

Your last pom pom is the easiest of the lot! Exactly the same process, but this time only use your light green milk yarn. To ensure you have the same size of pom pom, wrap your yarn 30x (instead of 15x) because you are using a single colour.

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)

4. Embroidering Flowers

Next we're going to be embroidering a few cute white flowers across your grassy section.

Tip: When stitching your flowers you can follow the clusters we have used on our design or create your own! Don't feel limited to the number or position of the flowers we have used. You can swap colours, change the sizes and even add more or less flowers on your own piece.

We have a couple of ways that you can stitch your own embroidered flowers. Check out the two tutorials below to find what style you prefer!

Straight Embroidered Flowers:

Embroidered Chunky Flowers with 3D Centres: 

Begin Backing Your Coaster - Sewing Down Canvas

Before moving onto step 6. you'll want to begin the process of backing your coaster! Backing your coaster involves 2x steps and usually we leave both until the very end, however completing the first half of the backing process now will make it much easier to attach your tulips afterwards.

Start by trimming the edges of your white canvas, with approximately 1inch of space from the edge of your coaster edges. Take your white thread and begin roughly sewing down the edges of your canvas so that they sit nice and flat on the back of your coaster. Watch the first part of the below video to see this process in detail.

And thats it! Now your coaster will be it's final size and you're ready to add your tulips.

6. Making Pipe Cleaner Tulips

Woohoo! You've officially made it to the best part, creating your lovely pipe cleaner tulips! There's only a couple more steps before you've finished your adorable mossy creation.

Creating your tulips will add dimension and texture to your piece. Using the pink and green pipe cleaners included in your kit, watch the video below to learn the technique.

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

• Open or Closed Tulip: Keeping your tulip open will have a more organic floral look, because of the variation in shapes of each petal it will have a beautiful handmade look. You can also see the middle of your tulip easily when the petals are open! Closed tulips look like a young fresh bloom that is yet to open. You won't see the yellow middle as easily, and they have a neater feel.
• Long or Short Leaves: If you're making fewer tulips, you'll have enough green pipe cleaner to make longer leaves that are more accurate to a real tulip. This could be helpful if you'd like to make less flowers, but have two that look more striking!
• Centre Colours: The fluffy middle of your tulip doesn't actually have to be yellow! You can use any milk yarn colour to create your teeny weeny pom pom middle.

6. Adding Looped Pom Poms

Now for the final detail - time to add a couple of smaller looped pom poms to fill in any gaps above or between my tulips. We recommend following your own intuition when it comes to placing these looped pom poms - where they will go will depend on the exact positioning of your tulips. Just add these dotted below the tulips to fill in any gaps.

If you're using a set of our pom pom makers, we recommend using the second-smallest size for this project (the green size) and wind approximately 30x loops around each end.

1x Light Sage Looped Pom Pom

These pom poms start the same by snipping a short length of milk yarn and placing it in between your first and second fingers. Take the ends of your light sage yarn and wrap them around your fingers approx. 12x. 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. And thats all there is to it! Leave them un-trimmed to have a loopy texture instead.

1x Dark Sage Looped Pom Pom

Your next pom pom will be exactly the same as above, but using your darker shade of sage yarn instead.

Backing your Coaster

Congratulations on finishing the main part of your coaster! Now you're onto the home stretch, its time to finish the back of your coaster.

You've already done half of the work backing your coaster, so now its time to glue or sew down your felt! 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.

Refer to the second half of this video for finishing up your backing.

 

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.

Thank you!

I hope you've loved creating your very own moss coaster creation! All of these tutorials are personally written and filmed by me - Nakisah - the founder of Craft Club. I always love hearing from customers (whether you loved your experience, or there was something you'd like to give feedback on) so please come say hi at hello@craftclubco.com or send us a DM over on Instagram @craft.club.co.

I'm always working on ways to improve our kits so that they are as easy as possible for our incredible customers! So all feedback is welcome (but please be nice haha).

Nakisah x