Wine Anyone?
I wanted to try making a gift bag for wine in felt. I first made a resist using the wine bottle as a model. But I wasn’t sure about shaping the bottom.
The base layer was black corriedale. Then I used a layer of merino. And finally I made a batt using forest green, a heather purple, sage and black bamboo for the last layer.
For embellishments and design I made leaves from a nuno prefelt and used 100% Peruvian wool thick and thin yarn, locks and needle felted grapes.
I finished fulling the bag on the bottle, but because of the narrowing of the design it’s not an easy in and out for the bottle.
After it was semi dry, I cut holes at the top to thread some yarn through to tighten it around the neck. Then I turned down the top and sewed extra leaves on and wound the excess yarn from the closure around a small dowel to emulate the ringlet vines on a grape wine.
Also, the bottom ended up having “wings” so I tucked them under and sewed them to the bottom. There was a hollow in the bottom of the bottle so it worked out well.
It was a little hairy so I shaved it. Next time, I would only use two layers and redesign the shape.
Even with some problems, I think it will make a nice display on a bar.
Have you made anything similar? Do you think it needs anything else?