Now that the rush of Christmas, New Years and Spousal Holidays are over I can really get into the crafting. Todays offering came about from a trip to the tip yesterday. Among the many things I picked up was a sheet of 4 inch square tiles. Cost of tiles = free. Actually the cost of these coasters was nil as I had everything on hand, so even better no cost and house work put off for an hour. I ended up making two sets, one in the bright colours and a set in black and silver. When choosing your lace, go with curtain lace as it is thin and easy to work with
Curtain Lace
4 x 4 inch Ceramic Tiles
Fabric or PVA glue
Gloss Spray Paint
Glue gun
Felt or polar fleece
Scissors
Paintbrush
Place lace over your tile until you have a motif in a nice placement, cut out 1 inch wider than tile on each side. Cut out 4. Paint top of tiles with fabric glue and place lace over the top, turn over and weight down with a can for five minutes. Do this on a chopping board or bench, not on paper otherwise the paper will stick to your lace. When dry, whilst holding tile cut the corners of your lace off this will mitre your corners without any bulk. With the gue gun run a bead on one back edge about 1/4 inch from edge and fold your lace over to the back. Do this on all four sides. You may find that the sides of your lace on the tile will be loose. A small dab of hot glue and small amount of pressure will make it lie flat. When all tiles are covered, place each tile on a plastic cup or similair and spray tops and sides of coasters. Don't get to heavy handed with the paint here as it can easily fill the holes in the lace, if this happens a bit of scrap cloth wiped across the top whilst wet will disperse any excess. While waiting for them to dry cut your felt or fleece into squares a little bit smaller than your tiles. When dry using fabric glue, glue squares to the base of coasters and you are done. When they need cleaning just a damp cloth will clean them.
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