Apple + Watermelon Coasters

Fruit coasters

 

Patterns: From the Book  Tea Time of Yarn by Tomoko Fujita 藤田智子 2006, 72 pages, ISBN: 4861912016. Read my review here.

Yarn: Plötulopi bought at Jorun Garn. For the apple I used green, offwhite and white Plötulopi worked with three strands. For the mustard coloured ring in the apple singlestranded Alafoss Lopi was used.

The watermelon was worked with 3 strands of white, red, brown and dark green Plötulopi. 

Hook: 9mm crochet hook.

The original pattern in the book has different fruit pouches in it, but I decided to make some coasters from the patterns instead.

Since the Plötulopi breaks very easily, so I decided to make the coasters with three strands of yarn. When I finished the crochet work the coasters were felted by putting them in alternating hot and cold water baths. I estimate this made the work shrink about 20%.

It was very easy to follow the instructions in the book even if I was not able to decipher a single Japanese sign: There are crochet charts for all projects were international crochet symbols are used.