I hope you can all understand this.
It's better with a "hands on", but I think you should be able to do it.

Take 2 pieces of coordinating fabric 6" x 6". Iron on interfacing to give it some stamina. (can't think of another word to use.) It looks like iron on interfacing that is/was used with the package I bought.

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draw a 3/8 inch line around the wrong side with an area left for turning.
Sew on the line, making sure to leave the opening.
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Trim your corners so your points will look good.
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Turn right side out and sew the opening closed.
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Here comes the tricky/fun part.
Hold the piece you made with points up and down and one facing you and one away from you and pull each side from the middle.
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As you pull, start to tuck the top point down inside
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Keep tucking until it is 1/2 way down and it is even. You can see where I creased it to show you.
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I put a pin to hold it to the one side on the inside.
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This is what it looks like on the inside.
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Then fold the other point up (the one that is down). That folds to the opposite side of the inside point and pin that.
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Stitch around the outside to hold it.
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Do the same for the one for the inside. To make it easier to sew, flip it inside out. Meaning, just take your "boat" and push the bottom up, so the sewn part is now inside.
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You should now have your boat!
Add the little tassle. I had a bit of a problem trying to figure out how she did this, but I just took a piece of floss, put it thru the corner (tip) of the boat, doubled the thread and tied it.
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If you can read Japanse, here are the FULL directions. :)
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I hope you can make these. They take about an hour from start to finish, depending on how your hand sewing skills are. Mine are not good.

If you have any questions, just ask myself or youme (Panda)

how cool. thank you :D

Those are sew cool, Terri! I'll make some for presents for my BIL, who is a wine expert!

Those are cute. I'll have to try them soon. Thanks for the tutorial.

Thank you. I needed to make some coasters. Thanks.

Cool coasters for the Christmas party. Everyone can take along a gift at the end.

Cool coasters. These would be great gifts.

Thanks Terri - I'll give those a go soon!!! :D

Great nail polish BTW!!! :wink: :lol:

Thanks!

If you want to use for wine bottle, just make the squares bigger. Should work the same

So now are we all going to have these coaster? great Tut, I want to see if I can do that!

Interesting coasters! Thank you!

Thanks Terri!

Thanks Terri :D :D :D

The thread that Terri was calling floss is a thread for "Sashiko"
I am making some another coasters with my kimono scraps. It was way easy and fast when I tried it by machine.
Did you bind up the triangle flips?? Terri

Cool and looks pretty easy. I bet the 1st one is kinda fiddley, but after that...should go pretty quickly! Thanks for sharing. I think I'll print out the written directions...yeah sure...as if.... :roll: :lol: :lol:

Thank you for this tutorial ! beautiful little thing !

very cool Terri. Thank you for the tute. I'll have to give them a try after I get some other stuff done.

Bind up the flaps? I'm not understanding.
I sewed one to the inside, and the other to the outside.

so, you sewed the flips by hand or did you figure out any other easier way ??

I sewed them by hand.

okay, thanks.
I made 8 more coasters that need to be hand sewn on the flips. Ugh....

I'm thinking I might cut some out and then take them with us on the trip to Australia. Would give me something to do on the plane ride. But, then again, I don't like hand sewing, so I don't know.

You'd better check the guidelines on needles Terri - I know when I fly to the UK, I'm not allowed them in my hand baggage. :? :D

I probably won't take it with me. I suck hand sewing.

Gee THANKS Terri, another thing I want to try :shock: How will I ever find the time :?

But they are GREAT :lol: :D :lol: Will print it out and add to my binder :wink:
Sharon

Funky :!: It's great! Going to have to give it a try! :D

thanks for the great tutorial

wow,thanks for the tutorial! I just found this link again

I have been dressmaking all my life, and have turned to patchwork in my 'retirement'. For all I love origami, I cannot work our this beautiful Japanese Coaster. Can anyone give me a little more help with this. Thank you. Edna Dalton Newcastle upon Tyne England

These are really nice, thank you for the tutorial.