Friday, June 29, 2012

Wine Bottle Koozy from Corks

Made a cork wine bottle koozy.



I drilled the corks and used some basic beadwork stitches to create it. To drill the corks, I held them with clamps that look like large clothes pins while I drilled the hole the long way through the cork. To make my needle, I used a 2" piece of floral wire,crimped at the end to hold the hemp string in place. Next the "beading." First I started with the bugle bead chain. After I chained the proper number of corks, I chained them into a loop.  After I have my first row, I continued with the brick stitch (start at step 7 in the instructions) until I had enough rows. Sounds easy, but was a little more difficult than I anticipated, but overall I think the koozy is cool!

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