Ragged Style Americana Coasters

Anyone who loves homespun hates to throw away even the smallest left over remnant!  I recently made a quilt for my grandson using navy and white homespun.  Shown here on these pages are some pics of really cute Americana coasters I made with the left overs.  I had some red homespun on hand from a previous project to combine with the navy and white.  I just did a random mix of background colors and star fabric.  I'll be selling these at a fall craft show this year as a set of two coasters.  Of course hearts and stars are always in style regardless of the season and any primitive color homespun fabric would make a beautiful assortment.
Assembly Instructions for the Rag Style Coaster:
  • Coasters will shrink just a bit when washed so start with something close to a 5" square.
  • Use TWO layers of homespun on the top and TWO layers on the bottom.  This will ensure you have lots of full, fluffy fray on the outer edges.
  • Cut your inner batting about 3/4 inch smaller than the homespun square on all sides.
  • Stack your coaster with 2 homespun squares, 1 batting square and 2 more homespun squares.  Creating a "sandwich" with the batting in between.
  • Cut your desired embellishment shape (heart, star or other) and pin it to one side of the stacked squares.  If you just want a more simple design, you can just assemble these without the embellishment shape.  If you chose to do that, you'll want to stitch and X in the coaster to hold the batting in place.
  • Stitch around the heart or star about 1/4 inch from the raw edges.  Make sure it is well pinned before starting this.
  • Make some tiny clips in the exposed raw edge of the embellishment shape, especially in any inside corners or curves.
  • Stitch about 5/8 inch from the raw edge all around the perimeter.
  • Make clips about 1/2 inch apart and 1/2 inch deep in the raw edges around the perimeter.  Clip diagonally in the outside corners.
  • Machine wash & tumble dry.  Use them, gift them or sell them at craft shows! 
  • Check out the work-in-progress pictures in the gallery below.  Click on the pics to enlarge them.

"For the Lord is good and
His love endures forever;
His faithfulness continues
through all generations."
​Psalm 100:5