Slipcovered Bottle

I have been wanting to try to "kopy kat" Sherry and her French wine bottle makeover over at  "No Mininmalist Here" blog.

 I don't have an authentic French wine bottle to try to
 add writing to so I attempted to cover a bottle
 by looking closely at hers to see the details.

               Sherry's bottle is covered in burlap of some kind

 and really you don't SEE the bottle very much.
Another blogger (so sorry, can't remember who) noted that a
Livingston wine bottle looks quite French-y.

  I got my husband to partake of some Livingston wine
 so I could have a bottle to work with. 

Sherry's bottle also had cording at the top and bottom of the bottle so I just got some twine that was close to the color of my burlap.

  I got a yard of burlap for $4.  I ended up only needing a piece
 21" x 12" so I have plenty left to do more bottles in the future. 
 "Drink up, Tom".

I went to Graphics Fairy website to look for a label to copy. 

They were beautiful but too intricate for me to be able

 to transfer onto the burlap with a paint pen.  I just got a French words off the site (which I have NO IDEA what it means) and selected a font on my computer to have something to copy.

Sherry used tracing paper to transfer her writing to the bottle's cover.  I tried that, but my burlap was so rough that I could not see the transfer.  It would probably work better on a smoother burlap.

During the daytime, sometimes I will hold something I want to trace up to the glass window but I was working on this project at night so I used the old "Lamp Under the Glass Coffee Table Trick"...how archaic in this time of Shilouette machines, etc. 

     After I got the main part of the letters on the burlap, I just
              went back over the letters again with the paint pen. 

I thought it would be easier to do the writing before I did the sewing.  I put right sides together and sewed a seam in the burlap to make a tube to slip over the bottle.

To get rid of the excess burlap in order for the cover to fit close to the top of the bottle, I made darts in the cover.

I pulled the pins out as I got to them on the sewing machine.
You could also do this part by hand sewing.

I was hoping to not have to cut the excess material off to keep it from raveling but it was too fat, so I did trim off the excess material from the darts.

The easiest  part of the project: using a glue gun to attach some twine around the top of the bottle.

Use your glue gun to attach the bottom of the burlap cover to the bottle.  I did it in sections so it wouldn't be too much burlap on any one side...north, south, east, west...then northeast, southwest, etc. Don't make the mistake I did and pull it down too tight...that made the writing "droop" in the finished product. 



I stood the bottle up in my box of glue gun supplies to keep it steady and easier to work with. 



               The most time-consuming part of the project:
                 attaching twine to the bottom of the bottle. 
          (My camera battery decided to "die" at this point of the                project but just start attching the twine high enough
       up that you will cover the bottom part of the burlap cover.)

      I tried to keep the glue on what would be the underside

of the twine so that it would hopefully not show as much

                        when he bottle was standing up. 
         You could go on and cover the whole bottom of the jug  
          with twine if you would like to...I decided it wouldn't show.

OK, so now my camera battery has charged up and it is morning and time for more pictures. 

Another tip: don't be lazy like me...take the label OFF the bottle before covering it.  I didn't think it would show through but it does if you look close. 

More empty bottles for more slipcovers.

When I try this again, I would make the writing smaller
 and work to get my darts more uniform.
  Also, the twine could be "aged" with watered down
 brown paint if it looks "too new" for you.