Eyelet-Edged
Coasters
free
pattern
by Rita
O'Connell
Earth Heart
Designs, http://www.EarthHeartDesigns.com
February 2001
Eyelet-Edged Coasters © Rita O'Connell 2001
DESCRIPTION:
This
is a square garter stitch coaster with simple eyelet edging.
It should be made with 100% cotton or other absorbent fiber (don’t
you hate those stone or plastic coasters where the water just runs off or
drips off the glass every time you pick it up?), and it’s machine
washable and dryable, too.
SIZE:
about 4.25 inches square after machine washing and drying.
SKILL
REQUIRED: Beginner.
MATERIALS:
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YARN:
About 20 yards per coaster of 100% cotton worsted-weight or
double-knitting-weight yarn, such as the easily available Lily’s
"Sugar ‘n Cream" (95 yards per skein of ombre yarn, 120 yards
per skein of solid colors) that I used for the samples in the picture.
Another fabulous choice would be linen in worsted weight (or use multiple
strands of a finer weight yarn).
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NEEDLES:
Size 5 needles or size to give gauge. Straight or circular
needles.
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MISCELLANEOUS:
Darning needle.
GAUGE:
about 5 stitches and 5 garter ridges per inch.
DIRECTIONS
Work
back and forth. CO 21 sts
using a 2-stranded or multi-strand CO (see the end of the patt). If
you choose a single-strand CO instead, then add an extra row 1 to the beg
of the patt.
Row
1 (right side):
Sl 1 wyif, yarn back, K across. NOTE - you will slip the
first st of every row to make an attractive "chain" of sts that
runs up the edge of the garter st.
Rows
2-3:
Rpt row 1.
Rows
4 (eyelet row, wrong side): Sl 1 wyif, yarn back, rpt (K2tog, YO) across to 2 sts before the end, K
2.
Rows
5-32:
Rpt row 1. At the end of row
32 you will have completed 14 right-side garter ridges since the eyelet row.
Row
33:
Rpt row 1 again.
Row
34 (eyelet row, wrong side):
Rpt row 4.
Rows
35-37:
Rpt row 1. End ready to
beg wrong side row.
Row
38 (wrong side):
BO in K as follows -- Sl 1 wyif, yarn back, (K 1, pass prev st
over) across. Cut yarn, pass
end through last loop, pull snug.
FINISHING
Sew
in ends on the wrong side.
DESIGN
VARIATIONS
Make
placemats or a table runner by making the pattern wider and longer.
You can even put multiple eyelet rows in if you like.
A much wider version would also make a nice baby blanket.
TWO-STRAND
CAST-ON
Make a slip knot
about 18 inches from the end of the yarn. Put the slip knot on the ndl and
pull it tight. Hold the 2 tails of the yarn and the ndl in your L hand as
shown in FIGURE 1 (mirror the position if you’re left-handed). Be
sure the short end of the yarn is the end wrapped around your thumb. With
your other hand rotate the tip of the ndl to follow the path shown in the
figure. Then gently pull on the ndl to snug the new CO st up next to the
prev one on the ndl. NOTE – this is a good general-purpose CO technique,
the problem is to be sure that you have enough of the short end (short
tail) of the yarn so you don’t run out before you’ve cast on enough
sts. A good rule of thumb is to allow 1 inch of yarn per CO st, less for
small-sized ndls, more for large-sized ndls.
Coaster shown with
Placemat & Coaster (pattern
available for purchase on this website)
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