A holly crochet coaster combines a plain ivory center with a red-and-white looped edge and two little green leaves. Three flat red berries sit at the leaf bases, outside the main area where a glass would rest. The contrast comes from the border and applique rather than a textured flower in the center.
This original interpretation uses five double-crochet rounds for the disk. Red chain arches attach to alternating stitches in its last round; a second white pass attaches to the stitches left between those red anchors. The two passes create a staggered loop border without changing yarn at every repeat.
Make the disk first and check it with your intended glass before adding the holly. For another festive table accent with a floral center, see the Christmas flower coaster. This version keeps the central surface simpler and adds its leaves separately.
How this holly crochet coaster is built
The pattern is an original design inspired by the reference, not the exact recipe used for the photograph. The stitch arithmetic has been checked; the design has not been physically tested. No measured gauge, finished diameter or yarn consumption is supplied. The photos illustrate the styling, while the written instructions and charts define the stitch placement.
The coaster has a disk, two leaves and three small berry circles. Its loop border is decorative, not a raised protective rim. Sew the applications close to the outside edge so they do not create a lump beneath the glass. A dry finished motif must sit flat and support the chosen glass steadily before use.
Materials for a holly crochet coaster
- Smooth cotton yarn in ivory or white, red and green, all of similar thickness.
- A hook suitable for your yarn; a 3 mm hook is a starting option for DK cotton, not a tested gauge specification.
- A blunt yarn needle, scissors and a removable stitch marker.
- A flat blocking surface and rustproof pins if the yarn care instructions permit damp blocking.
Use absorbent yarn with clear stitch definition. A very fuzzy yarn makes it harder to find the unworked disk stitches for the white border pass. Keep the red and ivory yarn weights matched: thick red arches beside fine white arches will sit at different heights.
The holly crochet coaster suits a crocheter comfortable with joined rounds and working around both sides of a foundation chain. There is no stuffing, wire, glue or purchased berry bead. The small crocheted circles stay flat; they are sewn over the leaf bases after blocking.
US stitch terms and special details
- MR: magic ring; ch: chain.
- sl st: slip stitch; sc: single crochet.
- hdc: half double crochet; dc: double crochet.
- inc: work 2 dc into one stitch for the disk.
- st/sts: stitch/stitches; sp: space.
The Craft Yarn Council crochet abbreviation guide provides standard US terms. All starting chains in this pattern are extra height chains and do not count as working stitches.
The small leaf picot
After the indicated leaf sc, ch 2 and sl st into the second chain from the hook, which is the first chain you made. Continue to the next leaf stitch. Each picot adds two chains and one small slip stitch, but it does not use another base stitch. There are five picots on each leaf.
Keep the two border passes separate
Round 6 uses every other stitch of Round 5. Round 7 returns to the same disk round and uses the thirty untouched stitches between the red anchors. It does not work into the red chain arches or the red sc tops. The white chains sit over the red pass as a separate decorative layer.
Holly crochet coaster: the ivory disk
Work joined rounds without turning. For a clear start in every round, fasten off after each disk round, then attach ivory with a sl st to the first actual dc of the previous round. Make the stated ch 2 and begin in that same dc. Attachment and joining slip stitches are not included in dc totals.
Round 1
With ivory, make an MR and ch 2. Work 12 dc into the ring, join to the first dc and fasten off. Close the ring gently. Count: 12 dc.
Round 2
Attach ivory to the first dc and ch 2. Work 2 dc in each dc around. Join to the first dc and fasten off. Count: 24 dc. There are twelve increases.
Round 3
Attach ivory to the first dc and ch 2. Repeat twelve times, starting in the attachment stitch. Join and fasten off. Count: 36 dc.
Round 4
Attach ivory to the first dc and ch 2. Repeat twelve times. Join and fasten off. Count: 48 dc.
Round 5
Attach ivory to the first dc and ch 2. Repeat twelve times. Join and fasten off. Count: 60 dc. Mark the first actual dc; this becomes stitch 1 for both border passes.
Each increase round adds twelve dc. The disk totals are 12, 24, 36, 48 and 60. Do not work into a starting chain or join when counting the sixty outer stitches.
