I started Little Bunny Quilts a year ago to share my quilting progress and ideas. I've had a needle and thread in my hand since I was 6 or 7, started quilting in high school, and have gotten full force into sewing and quilting since the start of 2011.
Let's make some cupcake coasters!
You will need:
Batting Scraps
Focus fabric for front
Backing fabric
Binding Fabric (approximately 18-20 inches in length per coaster)
For each coaster cut:
One 4" square for your front
One 5" square for your back (precut squares make things very easy!)
Layer your front square, batting (I used batting scraps cut at 5 inches across and trimmed them once quilting was done), and your backing square together. Quilt as desired. (I quilted mine with straight lines approximately a quarter of an inch apart.) Trim off excess batting.
Sew on binding as desired. Ta da! Maybe even put some cupcakes on your cupcake coasters.
Here's another set that I whipped up in less than an hour for a gift:
cute project and I love the tea cup quilt!
ReplyDeleteAdorable coasters!
ReplyDeleteI like your coasters - and your mosaic is very impressive:-) Nice to meet you through the hop.
ReplyDeleteHi Alison, nice to meet you. Great tutorial. I love the cupcake frabric.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to meet you! The girl who taught me to quilt is also a full time chemistry PhD student, so it made me laugh to know there are more than one of you out there who also quilt to cope! :)
ReplyDeleteI found some cupcake fabric a few months back, and the cupcakes had faces, and some of them looked really angry. It cracked me up, but I kept thinking, what would I use this for? And I didn't buy any. Now I'm kicking myself because, hello! I could have had angry cupcake coasters! Sadly, I don't remember the fabric line. But maybe I'll stumble across it again? Thanks for sharing!
Hello - its nice to *meet* you on the blog hop.
ReplyDeleteI am going through a making coasters phase at the moment.
Great tute.
Hope you will hop on over to my blog if you have time.
Kind regards
Liz
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Great to learn more about you. The cupcake coasters are adorable.
ReplyDeleteLovely to meet you! Cute cupcake coasters!
ReplyDeleteSo nice to meet you, Alison. You have some beautiful finishes in that mosaic. Sewing keeps me sane too, so I'm right there with you. :) Great little coasters there too!
ReplyDeleteI remember instantly following your blog when I saw that you were a PhD student too. :) Gotta do something to stay sane(ish) don't we?
ReplyDeleteYou have fantastic taste in both books and TV shows.
I'm a few days late on the Plum and June blog hop but it is good to meet you. Those coasters are darling!
ReplyDeleteThose coasters are adorable! What a great gift idea, and I love how they can be accomplished so quick! Thanks for the tutorial.
ReplyDeleteIt was nice to meet you and those are really cute coasters! Your new blog header is really cute, too!
ReplyDeleteLots of beautiful projects there! I'm amazed at how much you fit in while studing :)
ReplyDeleteSweet little coasters too. As for that teacup quilt... love!
Nice to meet you! It always amazes me how busy so many quilters are, how do you find the time? The coasters are very cute, and it's such a lovely idea for a gift too.
ReplyDeleteGreat gift idea and tutorial, I was already following your blog but it's good to find out more about you today :)
ReplyDeleteVery cute! It's nice to get to know you - it makes total sense that quilting would be a great hobby for a grad students and stay at home mothers (those two jobs are not actually dissimilar), a great outlet for creativity and productivity.
ReplyDeleteThese are super cute!! Just like the maker.. You are also a graduate student! We have two things in common! Just became your follower...
ReplyDeleteCatching up on the blog hop.... nice to know more about you... so impressive that you are quilting while going to graduate school - terrific! I can totally relate to the idea of quilting keeping one sane!
ReplyDeleteReally cute coasters! I'm catching up on the hop too - nice to 'meet' you!
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