Finally, somewhere for the wine glass that isn't the grass.
122 reviews · 4.9 average · 98 verified purchases
Steadi Labs LLC — Scott Rodriguez, founder. Veteran founded.
3419 E Chapman Ave #411, Orange, California · hello@steadilabs.com
“First time I have ever ordered from Facebook feed. Very easy. Happy with product.”Steve Butler · 8 August 2026
A flexible-finned base that grips a wine glass, a can, or a 40 oz tumbler. Holds it level on the blanket, in the grass, or on the cooler lid — even when someone just knelt down for the cheese board.
Keep it off the grass — from $14.95Free shipping · fits a wine glass foot to a 40 oz Stanley · 90 days to prove it at your next picnic.
Will the wine glass fit? A sticky note answers it — the test is below ↓
Been there
You've already lived one of these afternoons.
You kneel on the blanket to top off the second glass. Your knee pulls the fabric taut, and the first glass — standing on slack fabric a foot away — goes over into the cheese board.
The crowd stands and shuffles between acts. Someone easing past your blanket in the half-dark finds the seltzer can you parked in the grass at its edge, with their foot.
The kid bolts across the middle of the blanket for the strawberries. The open juice and your glass are both directly in the flight path, and three adults lunge at once.
The refills are behind you. You twist to dig one out, and your elbow finds the can you set down thirty seconds ago — half-full, unresealable, soaking into the blanket.
Fit, the easy way
The fit test packs flat with the blanket.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — the same ceiling of what fits, straight from the bottom of the tote.
A standard sticky note is a 3 inch square — that's simply true of sticky notes, and it also marks the exact upper limit of what the base holds.
Skip the rim — a wine glass flares and a tumbler tapers. Set the actual base down on the square, the same base that has to hold on fabric or turf all afternoon.
Inside the square, all around? It fits. Spilling past the edge? Too wide. Practically lost in the middle, under 2 inches? Too narrow.
No stake to plant and no table to unfold — one sticky note from the bottom of the tote, checked against the glass already in your hand.
Why more than one
Two glasses of rosé. Whose is whose?
By the second pour, the stemless wine glasses all look the same — same shape, same shade of rosé in the low light. Set two side by side in the grass and there's no telling which one's yours until someone just picks one and hopes.
Build your set
Give everyone their own.
Pick a pack, then give each one a color — so nobody has to ask which drink is theirs.
The pitch, honestly
Three reasons it makes the packing list.
Stands level on slack fabric
The wide, low base spreads across the blanket instead of pressing a point into it, so it isn't at the mercy of whatever the fabric happens to be doing the moment you set a glass down.
Grips the shapes a picnic actually brings
A wine glass drops in through the fins and gets held by its foot, not its bowl. Cans and slim seltzers slide straight on. The 40 oz tumbler settles in and stays put even top-heavy and full.
Packs as flat as the blanket does
One piece of matte flexible material, no legs to unfold and no stake to plant. It rolls up inside the same tote as the blanket and comes back out ready, with nothing left to level.
Will mine fit
The bottom inch decides what sits down.
One line covers all of it: a base 2 to 3 inches across settles in, whether it's standing on the blanket or down in the grass. Every verdict below comes from that single rule.
- Stemmed wine glass fits
- Stemless plastic or Tritan wine cup fits
- Standard 12 oz can fits
- Slim seltzer can fits
- 40 oz Stanley-style tumbler fits
- Insulated water bottle fits
- Kids' hard-sided juice cup fits
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
- Espresso cup too narrow
There's a floor here, not just a ceiling — go much under 2 inches and the base sits too loose to grip. The handled mug is the one honest exception on this list: the base fits, but the handle lands right where a fin needs to close around it.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
Compared to the workarounds
Compared to what's already sold for the blanket.
| A metal wine and drink stake | The Picnic Blanket Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| Holding the bottle itself | Neck cradled in the ring, built for it | Not the job here — it holds the glass being poured from |
| Height over the blanket | Runs chair-height, towering over everyone seated flat | Sits low, right at hand height on the blanket |
| What it actually holds | Stemware and a bottle, and not much else | Wine glass, can, seltzer, 40 oz tumbler, kids' cup |
| Hard-baked summer lawn | Needs soil to bite into; baked ground won't take it | Nothing to plant, nothing for the ground to refuse |
| Soft dirt, after an hour | Sourcing reports describe wobble and lean as the ground gives | Rocks and settles, holds steady |
| The cooler lid | No dirt there — nothing to stake into | Sits on the lid the same as the blanket |
| Cost | A stemware-only gadget, another purchase to justify | One small piece that covers the whole spread |
Sellers qualify their own claim to soft ground, and stake physics — a spike relying on soil to grip it — means a hard-baked summer lawn refuses them while loose dirt lets them lean over time. Most sets hold only stemware and a bottle, so cans and kids' cups are homeless, and common models run around 32 to 36 inches tall, towering over everyone seated flat on the blanket.
Built for four hanging glasses and a bottle, with reviewers repeatedly reporting wobble on sand, uneven grass, and rutted ground — and the listings themselves concede the tables do best on flat, stable surfaces, which a lawn picnic doesn't offer. It's also one more rigid thing to carry, unfold, and try to level in turf.
Recommended across picnic-hack lists for years, with the catch baked into the hack itself: it only works if your cups happen to match the wells. A stemmed glass or a 40 oz tumbler doesn't fit, and the rigid tin rocks on lumpy ground, so the whole tray tips together.
Built to seal against a smooth, hard, clean surface — precisely what a blanket-and-grass picnic doesn't have. On fabric or turf they're just a coaster sitting under a cup that's still free to tip.
From the reviews
What buyers say.
Real reviews of the Steadi — these ones mention picnic life.
OMG!!!!! YOU HAVE TO BUY THESE!!!!!! i tested it out today on an old tv tray (wood and very slippery) and put a soda in it and played like “oops i bumped my tray” (and really hard) and NADA, NOPE, NOT AN INCH OF MOVEMENT from the STEADI. everything else went flying!!! cuz dummy me didn’t remove those other items first 🙃 duh!!! and no it was not suctioned to my tray cuz it doesn’t do that. but WOW!!!!! what a great invention. wish i was thinking up this GREAT IDEA, instead of binge watching TRAITORS tv shows and SPILLING my soda as i jump with excitement/anger over the show. the plus side, while flipping thru FB (while the commercial is on) or i’m cleaning up my spilt soda 🤪….. i saw this ad and it was like angels were singing “BUY ME AND UR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED”. so glad i did. they work great!!! i bought the 4ct from actual website and it shipped quick and packaging was perfect. all 4 colors are great!! black, white, deep terracotta (plant holder) color. very very nice color. especially during the fall. and a muted warm sage color. very nice also. FYI:: i forgot to mention, i even tested this out with a 8oz dinner cup and it worked perfectly. but put the cup in FIRST then add beverage…..LOL learn from my dumb remark of “i can get it around the cup filled to the brim and not drop a lick of this drink. well WRONG!!!! 😑 LOL!!! user error not the STEADI. buy this and trust me u won’t want to return it. oh and it is comfortable to hold. and actually, now i can set my can of soda down with a mighty slap on the table and a huff and puff in disgust, if my tv show is calling for my dark side to come out in anger, of their decision of who to banish on TRAITORS (US/UK/NZ/ and now CANDA)!! ENJOY!!!! and THANK YOU TO THE INVENTOR!!!!! i hear it’s a father of 3. 🤷♀️
rebekah q. · 2026-06-23Literally love these. Living with chronic illness sucks and often means dinner in bed, and limiting my beverage to my side table when I have the whole mattress to picnic? I was wishing something like this existed and the algorithm delivered. Simple, lightweight, flexible! Immediately rec’d to all my friends, regardless
Mx · 2026-07-01The design for this is amazing. Simple and highly effective. No longer worrying about knocking over my drink from the side table or setting down my drink on a picnic blanket.
Obsessed · 2026-07-01My Steadi order arrived just as we were packing for our annual three generation family vacation. So into the car they went. Our time away is at a rental property and preventing spills in someone else’s house seems like a good goal. Additionally, most of our time is spent outside, at the house and nearby parks. The
Haila B. · 2026-05-3198 of the 122 published reviews are for the drink base itself. The other 24 are about ordering, shipping and customer service.
Fair questions
You're probably thinking…
The demo footage is a real bump on a real, lopsided blanket outdoors — not a studio table — so what holds steady on camera is what shows up at your picnic. Real reviews from other picnic-goers back it up too, not just brand copy.
The sticky-note test answers it in five seconds, no tape measure — and plainly: the 40 oz Stanley fits.
Because you've probably already half-tried the free version and know it half-works — a muffin tin rocks the second the ground under it isn't flat, and a coaster needs a hard surface a blanket never gives it.
It comes in the same colors as the rest of the spread — Golden Hour, Meadow, Cornflower, Picnic Linen — styled to sit on the blanket next to the gingham and the rattan, not stand out like gear.
Ninety days to try it at your next real picnic, plain language, no forms — email if it doesn't earn a spot in the tote and it gets made right.
Honest answers
Asked between pours, answered here.
Does it actually work on a blanket, in the grass?
That's the terrain it's built for. The wide, low base spreads across slack fabric or uneven turf instead of tipping off it, and the fins keep the drink from rattling loose when someone shifts nearby. Bump it off level and it settles back.
Will it finally hold my wine glass?
Stemware is the classic picnic problem, and it's why the fins grip a container by its foot, not its bowl. Measure the foot, not the bowl — 2 to 3 inches across settles in.
Will my tumbler fit?
Measure the base, not the rim. About 2 to 3 inches across fits, and the 40 oz Stanley does. Handled mugs don't — the handle sits right where a fin needs to grip.
What about the sloped lawn at a concert?
It resists tipping on a slope the same way it does on flat ground — the low, wide base rocks with whatever it's set on and lets the drink settle back down. It isn't gravity itself; a hard kick down a steep grade is still a hard kick. But the everyday lean of a graded lawn is exactly what it's built to shrug off.
Does anything stake into the ground?
No. Nothing gets pushed into soil and nothing needs soft dirt to grip. It sits directly on top — the blanket, the grass, or the cooler lid — and picks up in a second when you pack out.
Does it work on the cooler lid too?
Yes — it holds at least as well on a hard, flat surface as it does on fabric or turf, which matters the moment the cooler lid becomes the de facto table.
A spill at a picnic draws bugs. Does this fix that?
It resists tipping and lets a bumped drink settle, which is most of how spills start on a blanket. It isn't a sealed lid, so pairing it with a lidded tumbler is still the safer move for anything sugary.
How do I clean it?
Rinse it clean, or put it in the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart, so grass stains and cooler drips wipe off in seconds.
Who makes it, and where do I buy one?
It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 90 days to change your mind.
Ninety days of real picnics.
Take it out for a month — to the blanket, the grass, the cooler lid, wherever the spread ends up. If it doesn't do what this page says, email hello@steadilabs.com and it gets made right. No forms, no fight.
Veteran-founded · Patent pending · Made in Orange, California
Keep the wine glass out of the grass.
The pour stays level from the first glass to the last, the blanket goes home dry, and the only thing left standing in the grass is grass.
Ships free — keep the wine glass out of the grassCheckout is on steadilabs.com — Steadi Labs makes it, and stands behind it.