Inside My Mid-life Crisis

One of the things we do at our quilt retreat is share a project with each other, this is the one Ethel taught us this year...I love these, so simple and super cute!

Quilt Coasters Ingredients:
(6) 5" squares of coordinating fabrics (per coaster)
Charm squares are perfect or if you are cutting, you can even go a little larger but I wouldn't go any smaller then 5".

Lay the first 2 squares WRONG sides together. This is the "bottom" of the coaster. Press your other 4 squares into triangles.
Lay the first triangle on top of the "bottom" square. Line it up precisely.
Lay the next one on the next corner...
Then the next corner...
Corner 4 goes down half on top of corner 3 triangle and half underneath the corner 1 triangle..similar to how you close a cardboard box in on its self...
Clip your corners, careful not to clip the seam....
Not the greatest representation, but turn the coaster inside-out...
Push out your corners...I used my purple thang...
Press to finish and that is all there is to it, I whipped 8 of them out in about an hour. Experiment, I may try stitching down the "long" side of the triangles and/or stitching around the outside edge with a decorative stitch in contrasting thread on the next batch....Thank you Ethel for such a quick and easy project, these will make great hostess gifts!