Give teatime a colourful boost with these coordinating coasters and placemats by Carolyn Letten! Inspired by the beautiful shape of the Monstera house plant, the felt table accessories are simple to create and easy to wash, making them great for protecting your table from messy spills. You can even practise your free-motion embroidery with the decorative stitched veins.
Make a coaster
1 Download and print the templates. Using a water-soluble pen, trace a small leaf onto green felt and cut out. Pin or glue it to a darker shade of green felt and trim, leaving a large border.
2 Machine-sew around the leaf, 3mm in from the edge, then stitch over the traced vein details, using two lines of threa