♥ This is my gift to you, a placemat and coaster to make your table beautiful or a wall hanging mandala to show off your skills.

♥ I wish you all a peaceful festive season, filled with love and kindness, may giving bring you untold joy.

Because I was making this as a Christmas gift for you all, I chose to use traditional christmassy colours, but as you will see it also looks amazing in any other colours.

When making placemats and coasters, I personally recommend that you use cotton yarn.
Cotton will stand up to heat better and is more absorbent than acrylics.

I used a mix of Stylecraft Classique Cotton - White, and Paintbox Yarns in Evergreen and Red Wine.
Both come in 50g balls and are Double knitting weight, I used a 4mm Clover Amour hook.

Finished size is: Placemat 14 inches/35cm, and Coaster 5 inches/12.5cm.

For the wall hanging, you can use what ever type/weight of yarn you like.

You can read all about it, and see the examples of other colours on my website, Oh Tannembaum.