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Have you grown tired of someone in your life asking you to make them a sandwich? Just make them one that will last forever!

Benefits:
– No return trips to the grocery store!
– Doubles as coasters for you to set your drinks on!
– Great conversation starter!

Downsides:
– You can’t eat it (BOOOOOOOO!)
– May cause extreme hunger.

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I decided to design my own sandwich coaster set inspired by some of the other great sandwich coasters out there. The project is fairly simple, except a few weird hiccups (errr, burps?) occasionally, and could be completed in a day to a weekend’s time by anyone who is familiar with how to do the stitches in the pattern. I use standard crochet shorthand abbreviations for this pattern.

Abbreviations Used in Pattern:

  • sl st – slip stitch
  • ch – chain
  • sc – single crochet
  • sc2tog – single crochet two together
  • hdc – half double crochet
  • dc – double crochet
  • * * – repeat instructions between asterisks

Finished Size: 
Bread slices: 4¾“×4¾”
Tomato: 3½” diameter
Lettuce: 4″ diameter
Cheese Slice: 3¾“×4¼“

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Project Steps

BREAD SLICES

Using white yarn:

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Ch 16

Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across. Ch 1, turn. (15 sc)

Row 2 -11: Sc in each stitch across. Ch 1, turn. (15 sc)

Row 12: Skip first stitch. Sl st in next sc stitch. Ch 1, and sc in same stitch as sl st. Sc in next 12 sc and leave last sc unworked. Ch 2, turn. (13 sc)

Row 13: Sc in second crochet from hook. Sc in next 13 sc across. Sc 2 times in last sc space. Ch 1, turn. (15 sc)

Row 14: Sc in each sc space across. Ch 1, turn. (15 sc)

Row 15: Sc in next 11 sc space across. Sc2tog x 2. Ch 1, turn. (13 sc)

Row 16: Sc in next 9 sc space across. Sc2tog x 2. Ch 1, turn. (11sc)

Row 17: Sc in next 7 sc space across. Sc2tog x 2. Ch 1, turn. (9 sc)

Crusts

Using brown yarn:

Attach yarn at bottom corner of bread slice. Sl st 15 times along bottom. Continue to sl st evenly around the corner and up the side of the bread for 17 stitches. Round corner and sl st evenly across the top in each sc space (9 spaces). Round the corner again and sl st down the side of the bread evenly for 17 stitches. Fasten off and weave in ends when you reach the bottom.

Repeat for your second slice of bread.

LETTUCE LEAF

Using green yarn:

Ch 3 and join with sl st in first ch to make a ring.

Round 1: Ch 3 (counts a first dc), 9 dc into ring. Join with sl st to top of ch 3 stitch. (10 dc)

Round 2: Ch 3. Dc in same ch 3 space. 2 dc in each dc space around. Join with sl st to top of ch 3 stitch. (20 dc)

Round 3: Ch 3. Dc 2 times in same ch 3 space. 3 dc in each dc space around. Join with sl st to top of ch 3 stitch. (60 dc)

Round 4: Dc in every dc space around. (60 dc). Join with sl st. Fasten off and weave in ends.

TOMATO SLICE

Using red yarn:

Ch 3 and join with sl st in first ch to make a ring.

Round 1: Ch 2 (counts as first hdc). Hdc into circle 7 times. Join with sl st to top of ch 2 stitch. (8 hdc)

Round 2: Ch 2. Hdc 1 time into same ch 2 space. 2 hdc in each next 7 hdc spaces around. Join with sl st to top of ch 2 stitch. (16 hdc)

Round 3: (change to DC stitch)
Ch 3. Dc into same ch 3 space. *Ch 2. Skip 1 dc, 2 dc into next dc space.* Repeat from * to * around. Join with sl st to top of ch 3 stitch. (16 dc, 8 ch 2 spaces)

Round 4: Ch 3. Dc into same Ch 3 space. Dc in next dc space. *Ch 2. 2 dc into next dc space. Dc in next dc space.* Repeat from * to * around. Join with sl st to top of ch 3 stitch. (24 dc, 8 ch 2 spaces)

Row 5: Sl st evenly around. Join at end. Fasten off and weave in ends.

CHEESE SLICE

Using yellow yarn:

Ch 16

Row 1: Sc in second chain from hook. Sc in next 14 stitches across. Ch 1, turn. (15 sc)

Rows 2-15: Sc evenly across. (15 sc)

Fasten off and weave in ends after row 15.