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. For the apple I used green, offwhite, white and red Plötulopi worked with two strands.
The pear was also worked with 2 strands of white, offwhite green and dark green Plötulopi.
Hook: 5mm crochet hook.
The original pattern in the book has different fruit pouches in it, but I decided to make coasters from the patterns instead.
Since the Plötulopi breaks very easily I decided to make the coasters with two 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.
[...] far I made apple and pear coasters, apple and watermelon coasters and a very cute strawberry pouch from the [...]