How to Knit a Scarf for a Wine Bottle
When you hang a jaunty knit scarf around a wine bottle to present as a winter or holiday gift, you make an easy gift a little more special. Knitting the scarf yourself adds a more personal touch and can be accomplished in an hour or less. Choose a light to medium weight yarn from your collection of leftovers or from an especially festive skein, then whip up a cute scarf for the neck of your wine bottle. Add fringe and a pom-pom topped little hat to enhance the "wow" factor.
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Things You'll Need
- Size 5 knitting needle
- Size 4-weight yarn
- Wine bottle
- Thread
- Needle
- Embroidery thread (optional)
- Small beads (optional)
- Extra small buttons
Instructions
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Cast 6 stitches onto your size 5 knitting needle. Start with a slipknot onto your knitting needle, then use your standard cast-on technique.
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Use a stockinette stitch (knitting every stitch and row) until the material measures 16 inches long.
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Bind off your mini-scarf as you would any other knitting project. Cut the final knot off close to the knot.
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Wrap around the wine bottle and tie or secure the scarf with a single hand-sewn stitch where the scarf crisscrosses in the front of the bottle.
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Tips & Warnings
Add some bling to the project by using embroidery thread and small beads to add a glittery fringe to the wine bottle scarf. Use red and white yarn for a Christmas wine bottle gift. Use left over pieces of knit and felted projects by cutting them into wine bottle scarves or sewing bits of felted projects together to make a patchwork scarf. Sew tiny vintage buttons onto the wine bottle scarf to add a nostalgic detail. Knit a scarf with sparkly yarn to make the scarf more eye-catching. Add a matching full-sized scarf to the gift. Place the wine bottle with the wine scarf into a gift basket and fill the area around the bottom of the bottle with the full-size scarf.
Don't knit your stitches too loosely or with a very delicate thread or your scarf will lose its recognizable "winter scarf" look.
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Comments
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You can't just use stockinette stitch because it curls around itself. Use some kind of patter either k2p2 then p2k2 every 5 rows or just plain garter stitch.
