Using coasters for putting glasses of water

Hmm.. a glass holder seems interesting!

A glass holder in place of a coaster! Good idea!!

One problem I face when using coasters is that I can't stand them getting wet! It's like, instead of tables getting wet, my coasters are now wet... you know what I am driving at?

Stone coasters?

Hmm.. aren't stones supposed to be hard rocks? How are they supposed to absorb the water?

I don't know, but they work! They're also pretty decorative...

Hmmm... I have not come across any stone coasters before but I will look out for them the next time I go shopping.

Thanks.^^

I was given a set of six slate coasters for my birthday last year, they look great and seem to do the job quite well. the other set of coasters I have are cork, not very pretty really but functional and also they aer big enough to use with a coffee mug too. The cork acts as a insulation too.

I use stone coasters as well and they do really well. I have not had any problems with them since I got them and use only them for putting my glass on a table or desk. Nothing leaks through these solid coasters. They look really nice and blend in well with the furniture around it. I received mine as a gift from family in Texas and am sure they can be found elsewhere.

lordwizard, I'm not positive that you will find stone coasters in Singapor. I've seen them in gift shops when traveling in the States, especially the western states. They are porous stone and I think they may have cork backs. I don't recall. But I know they work as I've seen other people use them.

I use whatever is handy for a coaster. I have various kinds collected over the years as people give me gifts from their trips. And if all else fails I'll use a magazine or whatever else is laying on the table. We have lots of clutter, so there is always something!

When I was growing up my mom had a set of water glasses that had crocheted "socks" for them. They were crocheted in colored cotton thread and they slipped up onto the bottom half of the glass. Really cool. I still have the socks, but they don't fit my glasses. And I'm not that good at crochet to make them. Maybe if I had a pattern . . .

Any crochet folks out their with patterns?

I crochet everything - or at least I thought I did. I'm going to have to keep my eye out for the "socks". I have made wrappers for mason jars... Probably close to the same thing...

You brought up a valid point; maybe I wasn't specific enough.

By "don't work well", I was thinking particularly of the situation where the glasses of cold water get stuck to the coasters when we need to lift them.

True, the coasters do prevent the table from getting wet and unsightly with little water marks, but when you need to get them up, you find that both the coaster and the glass come up together! Sometimes you have to "peel" the coasters off which makes the whole drinking affair unnecessarily troublesome - not to mention you get your hands wet; other times, the coasters dropped off onto you or clanked onto the table while you lift the glass innocently!

Wow, interesting! I will check them out, thanks!

Just a question: you mean you are supposed to squeeze out the water from the sandstone? Won't they get soggy or something?

Nice... a coaster with a mesh. I like this concept though I haven't come across it here before.;-)