This easy fruit-themed sewing tutorial shows you how to make an avocado coaster from green and brown fabric scraps. You can also use it as a fun avocado garland.
Easy Avocado Coaster
Sewing a DIY coaster or mug rug based on your favorite fruit is always fun. Avocado is one of my favorite fruits and is super yummy for breakfast avocado smoothies.
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These fabrics are leftover from this sunflower coaster, and casserole dish carrier. This fruit-themed craft project is fun for summer or any time of the year, making it a great gift idea or quick decor.
Supply To Make Avocado Coaster
The coaster uses three shades of green fabric to resemble avocado flesh, skin part, and leaf. Use charm pack-size fabric for the green leaf, stem, and pit. Use two pieces of layer-cake-size or 10″ square green fabric for the avocado flesh and skin, which is enough to make one coaster.
Certainly, you can use fabric scraps or upcycle from worn-out shirts or unused pillowcases. Print the avocado coaster template. Link to download is on the list of materials below.
- 2 pieces of 8″ x 6″ dark green fabrics
- 1 piece of 8″ x 6″ light green fabric
- 1 piece of 5″ square brown fabric
- 1 piece of 5″ square green fabric for the leaf
- 1 piece of 8″ x 6″ batting
- 1 piece of 8″ x 6″ fusible interfacing
- 1 piece of 5″ square fusible interfacing
- Printable Avocado Coaster Template
- Disappeared ink fabric marker. I use the dual-purpose fabric marker
- Quilting clips or pins
- Ruler
- Thread
- Scissors
- Chopstick
- Sewing machine
- Clothes iron
Avocado Coaster Tutorial
The video tutorial is also available. Click on this link to watch the Avocado Coaster video tutorial on my YouTube channel, and subscribe for more videos.
For the avocado flesh, put the sticky side of the rectangle fusible interfacing on the right side of the light green fabric. Trace the smaller piece of avocado template for the flesh.
Sew along the traced line, then trim the fabric by 0.25″ from the stitched line. Cut 1″ in the center of the fusible interfacing only of the flesh. Turn the fabric for the flesh right side out so that the sticky edge of the interfacing is on the outside.
For the avocado pit, put the sticky side of the square fusible interfacing on the right side of the brown fabric. Trace the circle template for the avocado pit. Sew along the traced circle line, and then trim the fabric by 0.25″ from the stitched line.
Cut 1″ in the center of the fusible interfacing only of the pit. Turn the fabric for the pit right side out so that the sticky edge of the interfacing is on the outside.
For the stem, trace the 2″ x 3″ rectangle shape on the brown fabric. Cut the rectangle-shaped traced line. Fold the brown fabric half lengthwise, open it, and fold both long edges toward the center fold. Then, fold it again so the folded edges are aligned. Topstitch along both edges.
For the avocado leaf, fold the green fabric square in half with the right side inside. Put the rest of the fusible interfacing on top of the wrong side of the green fabric.
Trace the avocado leaf template. Mark 1″ for the opening gap. Sew along the traced line and skip the opening gap.
Then, trim the fabric 0.25″ from the stitched line. Turn the fabric leaf on the right side out.
Fold the opening gap, and press the fabric leaf with a clothes iron. Draw the leaf vein on the fabric leaf. Topstitch along the edge and the leaf vein by sewing it back and forth following the line.
For the avocado peel, put the batting on the wrong side of one dark green fabric. Trace the larger avocado template for the peel.
Trim the fabric along the traced line. Place the avocado pit on top of the avocado flesh fabric and then on top of the right side of the dark green fabric.
Press it with the clothes iron. Topstitch along the edge of the avocado pit and the flesh.
Trace the larger avocado template for the peel on the other piece of dark green fabric. Trim the fabric along the traced line.
Pin together both dark green fabrics with the right side facing each other. Sew along the edge of the dark green fabrics with a 0.25″ seam allowance.
Skip around 1″ on the top edge for the leaf and stem and 1.5″ on the side for the opening gap.
Trim the extra batting from the stitched line. Turn the fabric avocado right side out. Use a chopstick to push the seam around the edge. Fold all opening gaps inward. Press the fabric avocado with the clothes iron.
Put 0.5″ of the leaf into the opening gap on the top, fold the stem in half like a loop, then put it into the opening gap beside the leaf. Pin it, then topstitch the avocado along the edge and close the opening at the same time.
The avocado coaster is ready to use now.
The back side of the coaster resembles a pear fruit shape.
Size Of Avocado Coaster
The coaster has enough space for a mug. The size of the avocado coaster is approximately 5″ wide and 6.5″ long from the top edge where the brown stem and leaf base are.
Make several avocado coasters as a set for a gift idea, or use cloth pins to hang them as an avocado garland.
Another way to use this fruit-themed coaster is to hang it as wall decor in the kitchen or the outdoor kitchen/dining area.
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Easy DIY Avocado Coasters To Make From Fabric Scraps
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