testing running the coaster on my daughter's behalf
If there's one thing my daughter loves most is to drink chocolate beverage, otherwise known as tea from my end of the world.
If you leave her, she'll drink it morning, afternoon, and night. So I thought, why not make her some fruity coasters? @abenad suggested I make the coasters in her favorite colors and when I asked my daughter what her favorite colors were, she said Orange and white which coincidentally, orange happened to be @abenad favorite color. I have sha told her I'm shipping my daughter to Takoradi next holiday because clearly they need to meet 😃.
I decided to be creative with this project by not just making coasters of colors, but also let it drip some fruit with all her favorite colors and thus we have an entry for this month's contest.
PROCEDURES
STEP ONE
This project took me roughly 8 hours to make. It's a straight forward process and from the pictorial above, I made a magic circle.
Next, I made 12 DC into the magic circle. I tried 6 DC but I was struggling too much so I went on with 12 DC.
At first, I wasn't getting the hang of it so I ran to Abenad and although she told me to make use of 6 DC for the base, she also said I should make my stitch tight.
Going back to the 12 DC I was struggling with as it was curving, I noticed the stitches were loosed so I loosened it and made it tight then it became ok.
STEP TWO
For the 2nd roll, I chained 3, then went on with 2 DC in each base Stitch to give me 24 DC.
STEP THREE
For the 3rd roll, I repeated the process of the 2nd roll and got 48DC
STEP FOUR
For the 4th roll, I started doing a little abracadabra lol but it worked, I went with 1DC in each stitch.
STEP FIVE
For the 5th roll, I repeated step 2 & 3. I went with 2 DC in all the stitches.
STEP SIX
Here, I made 1 SC in each stitch.
STEP SEVEN
This is the second to final step where I sealed the coaster with 1 SC and 1 SlSt(slip stitch) till I got to the end.
STEP EIGHT
For the final step, I made the seeds using a big needle and some yarn (White (yellow orange (seeds and lines), cream (orange), yellow (guava) and black(watermelon))
Kindle note that for the other fruity designs, like the watermelon, yellow orange and guava.... I went with Abenad's instructions on 1 DC and 2 DC increase for roll 2 to 5 because then, I finally got the hang of it.
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