{"id":25974,"date":"2024-04-15T14:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/?p=25974"},"modified":"2026-01-02T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:14:34","slug":"cross-stitch-coasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/grown-ups\/cross-stitch-coasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Stitch Coasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"eplus-wrapper wp-block-paragraph\">These cute and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-supplies\/craft-essentials\/wool-thread\">colourful wool<\/a> coasters will look great on any side table. For this project, you can use cross stitch or diagonal stitches, so long as they are all in the same direction. These coaster make great gifts, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These cute and colourful wool coasters will look great on any side table. For this project, you can use cross stitch or diagonal stitches, so long as they are all in the same direction. These coaster make great gifts, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":70386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,233,256,3,382,267,239],"tags":[712],"class_list":["post-25974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grown-ups","category-activity","category-home","category-kids","category-sewing","category-stitching","category-techniques","tag-sewing"],"acf":{"age":["6-9","10+","Adult"],"skill-level":["Advanced"],"time-to-make":["1 hour"],"idea-type":["Craft Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"K1607","time":"30 mins-1 hour per coaster","skill_level":"Hard","how_to_make":"<b>To cast on:<b><\/b><\/b> \r\nInsert it into the back of the fabric to make your first stitch. Hold an inch tail of the thread at the back of your fabric. As you make your first stitches, be sure to catch the thread at the back within it to secure it in place.\r\n<b>To cast off:<b><\/b><\/b>  When you need to use a new thread or if you\u2019ve come to the end of your design, make the last stitch as you usually would,\r\nRun the needle through the back of the last few stitches.\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Start by cutting out a square 21 x 21 squares big.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Thread your needle and starting on the corner square and cast on.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>First wrap the edge going into one square from the front, wrapping around the edge and back into the next square from the front again.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Following the pattern (or one of your own) make a half stitch or a cross stitch in each coloured square changing colour as needed.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Once you have completed your design and cast off.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","shopping_list":"","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"Try making your own patterns using the blank grids in the template. ","image_01":70383,"step_instruction_01":"","image_02":70384,"step_instruction_02":"","image_03":70385,"step_instruction_03":"","image_04":"","step_instruction_04":"","image_05":"","step_instruction_05":"","image_06":"","step_instruction_06":"","template":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.de\/media\/patticrafts\/K1607%20CROSS%20STITCH%20COASTERS.pdf","related_projects":"25962,25943,25926,8046,28219","latest_idea_content":"most-recent","show_date":false,"adult_supervision_needed":"Yes","youtube_video":"","products":"AG238,FN276,EF892,FC938","fbt_products":"","recommendation_products":""},"view_count":10,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25974"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88203,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25974\/revisions\/88203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}