30+ Crafty Drink Coasters To Make

Tile: Made with tiles, scrapbooking or decorative paper, mod podge, clear acrylic spray and felt pads (for the bottom).

Monogrammed Stone: Supplies needed are a tumbled tile, rubber or felt bumper pads, staz-on permanent ink pad, patterned and initial stamps, post-it note.

Quick & Easy Fabric: Made with fabric and padded with batting.

Cork Photo: Supplies include photos of your choice, sheets of cork and varnish.

Fabric Covered CDs: Made with sturdy fabric (like denim) and fabric scraps for binding.

Floral Cocktail: Using remnants from printed linen and backed with hemp fabric, both pieces are stitched together with a zigzag stitch. Free pdf template.

Easy Felt Coasters: These coasters were inspired by snowflakes.

Mix-It-Up Cocktail: Makes six coasters. Finished size: 4 inches by 4 inches.

Seed Bead: Made with seed bead strings, a button (for the center) and cork roll.

Photo: Supplies needed are tiles, fingernail polish remover, colored copies of photos and clear acetate sheets.

Pressed Pansy: Colorful flowers floating between squares of glass make beautiful and useful coasters. Press the flowers yourself, or use prepressed blooms.

Fabric Criss-Cross: You can whip up a set in no time, especially if you use a rotary cutter, because there is no hand finishing.

Reversible: Made with fabric scraps and a square of low-loft batting.

Vinyl & Fabric: Wipes clean easily! Made with 16 gauge clear vinyl and squares of fabric.

Scrap Fabric: Lined with batting or fleece. Easy project for beginner quilters.

CD Coasters Tutorial: Easy project using felt and fabric to cover CDs.

Woven Button: Made with four-hole buttons and embroidery floss.

Chalkboard: Made with chalkboard spray paint, ceramic tiles, cork board and a glue gun.

Criss-Cross: Made with triangles, it takes 6 charms to make one coaster.

Little Petal: Simple crochet pattern, made with machine washable cotton & linen yarn.

Mediterranean: Simple design crocheted in the round finished off with a contrasting color around the outside edge.

Stamped Tile: Plain white tiles are transformed with squares of paper first cut with decorative edged scissors, stamped and then applied to the tiles with a coat of Mod Podge then glaze, felt backed.

Recycled Denim: The thick hems and seams are cut from old jeans then rolled tightly and glued together.

Scrabble: This is a neat gift idea for Scrabble fans, a coaster is made with Scrabble tiles, glue and thin cork.

Citrus: Make colorful citrus “slices” with felt and embroidery thread. Free template download (pdf).

Glass Flip Flops: Cute crochet pattern! These little guys feature a “thong” that wraps around the glass base.

Quilted Fabric: Made with 1/2 yard of fabric and 1/4 yard batting (makes 6 coasters). Free pdf pattern download.

Calla: This project combines knitting, crocheting, and quilting.

Paper Napkins & Tiles: With the help of some 4″ square ceramic tiles, turning decorative paper napkins into a set of very polished-looking coasters is easy.

Paint Chip Samples: Cover a square of cork or felt with a paint sample, Mod Podge and clear acrylic spray.

Crocheted Watermelon Slices: Set your mugs and glasses on these sweet slices of watermelon, simple crochet design using three different colors of yarn.

Snowflake or Christmas Cookie (felted) Depending on the colors you use, this charmer looks like a cookie or an ice crystal.

Machine Embroidered: Easy-peasy project using 5″ squares of felt, basic stitching done on a sewing machine (zig-zag and straight).

Quilted Pinwheels: Includes a free pdf template to download, two coordinating fabrics are pieced together then quilted.

Knitted I-cords: A scrap amount of yarn is knit into an I-cord which is then shaped as desired (four templates provided) and stitched together.

Spiral: (crochet) Finished size measures 3.3″ when using cotton yarn & a 2.5mm crochet hook. Can be made larger for potholders.

Records: Inexpensive cork coasters are painted then sealed with a few layers of Mod Podge Outdoor.

Cement: Cardboard soup containers are used as molds but you can use yogurt, sour cream or other suitable containers.