Best out of waste: DIY Tea coaster with unusable Compact Disc (CD)

How to make tea toaster using CD? Best out of waste

I found a creative way of making tea coaster using the unusable compact disc and thought of sharing this with you all. I am sure you will love this simple but creative idea and will make it yourself .It doesn’t need any expertise and even kids can make this just will small help from elders. I don’t say, we can’t get the Tea coaster in the market, its ease to get but if we use some creativity to it, will be unique and special.

Let’s see, what all we need? 

• Unusable Compact Disc (CD)
• A pair of scissors
• Thick silky thread 

Simple 3 steps

1. Let’s make the CD suitable for our artwork.

Take any unusable CD and we need to mark 16 equal parts .Mark 1st location at any point and hold it , opposite to that will be the second point .third and the fourth point will be on another axis .Now we are done with 4 points at 4 quadrants . Similarly, mark 3 points in each quadrant now so that all 16 locations for cutting will be ready. We are going to make the gear teeth slots on out CD periphery .These slots are necessary to have to hold the thread at the periphery. Make the 16 slots using a pair of scissors .Hold the thick silky thread with one hand leaving approximately 4-inch length ,start weaving it , complete one round passing through all slots and tie a knot Here we got 16 spokes . As shown in image 3, take any spoke, just like a basket weaving one from over and other from below alternately, we need to complete one round again passing through all the slots and spokes. Now as shown in image 4, take 2 spokes together , make a round at second spoke and go one similar like the previous one like basket weaving over and below alternatively.      

2. Let’s add the design to our tea toaster.

Here, we will be adding the triangular shapes design. We need to form 5 groups of slots if I call them as  A,B,C,D &E. Start with A, make a fold at C at the back side ,as shown in image 5 and bring it back to E and just round it once and go one further .Similarly, we need to make 4 triangular designs. We have taken group of 5 slots here and completed 4 triangles, it means we need to restart from 5 Th  group again, just calling E as A to complete another 4 triangles, as explained in next step    

3. Let make our Tea coaster ready to use.

Here we will be completing 4 triangles and adding 4 more in the center of those ones. After completing remaining 4 triangles, out tea coaster will be ready to use. We need to make sure that the Tea coaster should be perfectly flat and no topple down Do not make the knot on the plain surface of the CD but to make it at the hole of the CD to serve our purpose.     

This post is dedicated to all my fans who always want to make the best use out of waste and keep their creativity as a royal treatment to their guests. Someone may use this idea to make bigger size coaster to keep the soup bowl or even this can extend to any size depends on upon what we have and how to make use of it .In my post, I have used available thick pink thread .I don’t say everyone to start searching the same thread, use whatever is available to serve our purpose.

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