I love drinking tea and thought about making some tea coasters a while back. Making it out of wool or acrylic wool isn't the best idea since the heat passes through pretty easily. Then I remembered I had some t-shirt yarn left over from a month ago. It's a perfect material for this purpose, easy to wash and works like a mini kitchen cloth. These are pretty easy to make, I just double crocheted little squares and approximated the size.
I also remembered I had an old black shirt that was covered in holes and was a bit too small for me, so I cut that up too. (I should've taken pictures of the making process or the shirts but I was too excited to start making it)
I've also made a pretty cool origami tessellation, first time of succeeding at making it. Took around 2 hours to fold. Here it is on both sides.
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I agree @ivan-g. The t-shirt yarn is pretty good because it's thicker than acrylic... I've had the same issue as you using acrylic for coasters - the end up quite flat ... 😆
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Do you know any good tutorials for crocheting round, I always end up making things uneven :/
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Here is a video that shows you how to start with a 'magic ring' (to avoid big middle holes) and it also shows a diagram. The first row of stitches is doubled in the second row (ie 2 stitches into each stitch).
As your circle increases in every row, you will see that first your increases are every other for row 3; then increase every two stitches for row4, then every three for row 5 and so on (check the video at 10 seconds and try to stop it there to see the diagram more closely).
I didn't know this when I was 'young' so I had very 'stressful' uneven circles... I have to say that it's thanks to Japanese websites that I've learnt details like this and the diagram here shows you but it can also be applied to trebles and so on ....
The video is a bit slow (or is it my connection?) but you can play with the settings to make it go faster :)
I think that you will be able to follow the pattern really well after a while @ivan-g and I look forward to seeing your projects 😊
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Thank you, can't wait to get home from uni to try this :O It's pretty similar to how I make the stressballs but with different proportions of adding rows ^^
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That's right, it's the same principle @ivan-g ! I'm sure you'll be able to make coasters of all sizes 😆
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Nice way to use up an old shirt, the coasters are a good idea. And your origami tessellation star thing is SO cool!
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Thank you, also you should really try the shirt yarn if you have some old shirts :D
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I will! It is a neat way to continue using something long after it is wear-able.
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Oh, so t-shirt yarn means you cut t-shirt in to narrow strips? Hmmm interesting. And beautiful origami work😍
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Not really strips, more like a continuous string, check out @cryptocariad they made a post on it a month ago. Thanks ^^
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Wow... love the origami @ivan-g! Looks really complicated. And great idea to use tshirt yarns to crochet into coasters.
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Thank you :)
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Very creative 💚
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Thank you :)
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My goodness, that origami is AMAZING! I can imagine the patience it took to get that just right. I love it :) It would look lovely hanging in a window. What are you going to do with it?
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Thank you :) it's not that complicated but the paper never seems to listen to me with that model (folds get undone or the paper rips) I usually either give tesselations away or keep them in a seperate plastic bag since they're fun to look at once in a while ^^
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Great idea Combining techniques Thanks for sharing. Regards
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Thank you :D
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Nice!
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