Beautiful crochet coaster pattern

This is a beautiful crochet coaster pattern that looks like a flower or citrus slice with a scalloped edge! 🌼🍋
Here’s how you can make it step-by-step:

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🌼 Crochet Round Coaster with Petal Segments (Detailed Tutorial)

🧶 Materials

• 2 colors of yarn (e.g. white + yellow)
• Crochet hook: 2.5 mm–3.0 mm
• Scissors
• Tapestry needle for weaving ends

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🪡 Step-by-Step Instructions

🧩 Round 1: Center Circle

1. Make a magic ring (or chain 4, join with sl st to form a ring).
2. Chain 2 (does not count as a stitch).
3. Make 12 double crochet (dc) into the ring.
4. Pull the ring tight and join with a slip stitch into the first dc.
   → 12 dc total.

🟡 Tip: Use your border color (like yellow) for the center.

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🧩 Round 2: Increasing Base

1. Chain 2.
2. Make 2 dc in each stitch around.
   Join with sl st.
   → 24 dc total.

This creates a flat circle as the coaster base.

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🧩 Round 3: Preparing the Petal Sections

Now switch to white yarn (or your inner petal color).

1. Chain 2.
2. 1 dc in next stitch, chain 1, skip 1 stitch — repeat around the circle.
3. Join with sl st.

You’ll have little “spaces” forming between yellow lines — these will become your white petal sections.

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🧩 Round 4–8: Building the Petal Segments

We now work in color alternation (white and yellow).

Each “segment” (petal) is formed by crocheting into the spaces between the previous color lines.

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🧶 With White:

1. Join white in any chain-1 space.
2. Chain 2 (counts as first dc).
3. Make 2 dc in same space, then chain 1, skip next color section, move to the next chain-1 space.
4. In each chain-1 space: make 3 dc, chain 1, skip over color sections, and repeat.
5. Join at the end with sl st.

🟡 This forms the “fan” sections that spread out like pie slices.

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🧶 With Yellow:

1. Join yellow in one of the white “chain-1” spaces between petal fans.
2. Chain 2, make 1 dc in next 2 dc, chain 1, skip 1.
3. Repeat around to form separating yellow lines between white sections.
4. Join with sl st.

🧵 Keep alternating colors (white for petals, yellow for separating lines) for 2–3 more rounds, increasing the dc count per section slightly each round to keep the circle flat:

• Round 5 → 4 dc in each fan section
• Round 6 → 5 dc in each fan section
• Round 7 → 6 dc in each fan section

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🧩 Round 9: Scalloped Edge (Border)

Use your border color (e.g. yellow).

1. Join yarn in any stitch.
2. (Skip 1 stitch, 5 dc in next stitch, skip 1, 1 sc in next stitch) — repeat all around.
3. Join with sl st and fasten off.

This creates a pretty scalloped flower edge.

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✂️ Finishing

• Cut yarn, leaving a few inches of tail.
• Weave in ends neatly using a tapestry needle.
• Lightly block (wet and flatten) to shape evenly.

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🌈 Optional Color Ideas:

Style	Center	Petals	Border
Lemon	Yellow	White	Yellow
Lime	Green	White	Green
Pink Daisy	Pink	White	Pink
Sunflower	Brown	Yellow	Yellow

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