Hello, everyone! Marlene is back on the blog! To make up for not posting, I’m posting a tutorial for my very own coaster design: the Cotton Candy Coasters! If you follow me on Instagram (which is likely why you’re here haha), you might remember my post of the pastel coaster I posted. This is a very easy pattern for those who know basic stitches and want to learn more, like the cute puff stitch I’ll be introducing! This tutorial comes with pictures to make the process so much easier.
If you want to save this pattern for later, click on the image below to pin it on Pinterest!
First, you’ll need your materials:
Yarn
A crochet hook
And scissors, for cutting your ends after you weave them
My scissors are nice shears that I got cheaply (you don’t need to splurge for good supplies, guys), my yarn is a ball of Red Heart Super Saver Pooling in the color Stillwater, and my hook is one of my beloved Boye Yarn Crafts hooks in the size I-9 (5.5 mm). I recommend using a hook size or two up from the one recommended for the yarn because it’ll be easier to pull the yarn through for the puff stitch.
Now it’s time to start!
Round 1: Make a magic circle.
There are two ways to approach this:
Method 1: Chain 6 stitches.
Then slip stitch into the first chain to create a circle!
Method 2: Chain 2 stitches.
Insert your hook into the 2nd chain from the hook and single crochet 6 stitches into that chain. It’ll look something like this:
Now we begin!
Round 1: Chain 1, yarn over, and insert the hook into the first single crochet. Pull the yarn through the stitch, making 3 loops.
Yarn over, insert the hook into the stitch, and pull through two more times. At this point, you should have seven loops on your hook. This is the beginning of your puff stitch!
We’re almost done! Yarn over again, and pull through all the loops on your hook. It should look like this now:
Chain 2, and you’re ready for the next step!
Now you just make another puff stitch into the same stitch as the first one. This allows you to increase and make the coaster bigger!
Then next step after this is to just do two puff stitches in each single crochet around. At the end your first round looks like this!
Make sure you slip stitch into the chain 1 at the start of the round and then chain 1 to start the second round.
Round 2: Repeat Round 1. Easy peasy! However, when you get up to the chain 2 of the last stitch from the previous round, do just one puff stitch before slip stitching into the chain 1 at the beginning of the round.
Round 3 is a little different, but since you’re still going, I bet you’re up for the challenge! It goes in a pattern.
Round 3: One puff stitch in the chain 2 space between puff stitches in the same space, and two puff stitches in the chain 2 space between the puff stitches of two different chain 2 spaces.
Okay, honestly, that was a bit confusing for even me. But that’s why the pictures are important! Here’s a visual that I annotated:
Do this around. The last one stitch should line up with the pattern, and then slip stitch into the chain 1 of the first stitch of the round.
Keep doing the pattern of Round 3 until you have the size you want! Round 4 is the finishing touch!
Round 4: Do one puff stitch in each chain 2 around. However, these are bigger puffs, so yarn over, insert the hook into the chain 2 space, and pull the yarn strand through two additional times for a total of 11 loops on the hook. Then you yarn over and pull the hook through all the loops for your puffier puff.
Slip stitch one last time, and fasten off! You finished your Cotton Candy Coaster!
Hopefully, you’ll make more of these and share them with your friends and family!
Thank you for coming to the Marlene’s Crochet Co. blog!
Stay healthy, and stay home!
If you decide to post your Cotton Candy Coaster, be sure to tag me (@marloonles_crochets) and use the hashtags #cottoncandycoaster and #marloonlescrochets! My pattern and its constituents may not be sold, but you can sell anything you make with my pattern. Just make sure to place a link back to it!
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