Scrappy Wool Coasters Pattern

We love a project that uses up those little scraps that inevitably result from any sewing project. After making our wool mittens for the February 2025 POM, we noticed we had enough leftover scraps to make some cute hand-sewn coasters! Wool boucle offers an absorbent surface for your coasters to absorb any spills, drips, or condensation from your drink, and makes these coasters entirely washable!

These coasters will be a perfect crafty addition to any living room or dining set. Individually, each coaster comes together quickly. Due to their small size and using hand-sewing, these are ideal for making while you enjoy a favourite tv show or chat with friends.

Using minimal supplies, these coasters can be made with the materials that most sewists will already have on hand, or that can be easily found in most houses.

These coasters can be easily customized by mixing and matching colours and using up any scrap embroidery floss or yarns you have on hand from other projects! Get creative with it by adding embellishments such as embroidery or needle felted details to the tops. We would suggest adding these after you cut out your discs, but before you sew your 2 discs together.

Finished Size:

The diameter of the finished coasters is approximately 4 1/4”.

Optional embroidery or felting details: before sewing your coasters together, you can decorate them by embroidering or needle felting different designs onto the individual discs. Try out some cute words or flowers. We would not recommend any stitches that are raised (such as a french knot or a woven wheel stitch) as it will make your coasters bumpy, potentially spilling your drinks! Back stitch, running stitch, and lazy daisy stitches will be best suited for embellishing your coasters.

Reduce waste option: If you don’t want to print out the template (or just want this project to be even more environmentally friendly) find a round object in your house to trace that has a diameter of approximately 4 – 4 1/4”.

Materials

Wool boucle scraps
Approximately 60” of embroidery floss or scrap fingering weight/lace weight yarn per coaster
Fabric shears/rotary cutter and (optional) thread snips
Size 5 DMC sewing needle (or suitable size for your thread/yarn)
Optional: sewing pins or clips
Optional: erasable fabric marking pen or preferred method for tracing patterns

Pattern

Cut

Trace and cut out 2 of the disc templates

Sew

Pin or clip 2 discs together with wrong sides together.
Optional: with an erasable fabric marking pen, mark where you will place your stitches.

Thread your needle with your choice of embroidery floss or scrap lace or fingering weight yarn. Tie a double knot in the end.
Starting on the wrong side of the back disc (in between the 2 discs), insert needle 1/4″ from edge, from front to back so that the knot is tucked away in between the 2 discs.