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via How About Orange by noreply@blogger.com (Jessica Jones) on 3/12/12
Modular pieces that fit together make me really happy, and on a recent Google hunt, I found felt rugs here and here made with interlocking shapes. Very cool. So I tried a pared-down pattern for coasters because I'm way too impatient to fit 847,236,780 pieces together to make a rug. Download the PDF template right here (it makes two coasters.)
Print out the pattern and pin it to a piece of felt. Use an X-acto knife (press hard) or a rotary cutter to cut the diagonal slot in each pattern piece. Then cut apart the pieces, adding the cuts on the sides.
Grab four of the pieces and orient them as shown above. The "arrow" end of each piece is rotated 90 degrees, sort of like they're chasing each other around a circle. Pull each arrow through the adjacent slot from the back through to the front.
The coaster will look like this when you've locked all the pieces together.
Trim off the points of the arrows. Also trim off any edges that stick out so you end up with a neat square.
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