Next time you give a bottle of wine as a gift, dress it up with these lovely felt tree bottle covers.
Tools and Materials
Tree template one or two
1/2 yard (or 2 packs) felt
Pins
Sewing machine and thread
Pencil
Pinking shears or straightedge shears
Decorative embellishments (bells, rhinestones, garland)
Fabri-tac glue
Wine bottle
Bottle Cover How-To
1. Download and print tree template one or two. Pin together two pieces of felt. Place tree template on top of pinned-together felt pieces. Trace tree onto felt.
2. Using sewing machine, sew sides of tree together, leaving the bottom portion open. Then, use pinking shears or straightedge shears to cut tree out of felt.
3. Decorate the felt tree by gluing or sewing on embellishments of your choosing, such as bells, rhinestones, and garland.
4. Place felt tree cover over wine bottle.
Resources
Felt can be found on magiccabin.com. Fabri-tac glue can be purchased on beaconcreates.com. The trims and embellishments used for the felt tree on today's show are from tinseltrading.com and mjtrim.com. Bells are from tohoshoji-ny.com.
Felt Tree Bottle Covers
Next time you give a bottle of wine as a gift, dress it up with these lovely felt tree bottle covers.
The Martha Stewart Show, December 2007
really nice idea.. similar to the Xmas trees I am making myself.. with colourful buttons would also look very cheerful!
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Did anyone else use three tree templates? I did and loved it. That way, everyone at the table gets a better and beautiful view. And I did two, one for red and one for white. although the white was chilled. Most Floridians like everything cold. LOL
You can enlarge it on a copy machine. Most copiers have an enlargement feature and then you just print it.
I just saw this on TV in Sydney (we are lucky down under - we get a bonus of all Martha's shows of past week on Sunday mornings) I followed BethFox instructions went to video clicked on the x where it says "CLOSE" lo
The directions and hot link to the template came up when I went to print. Still working on the 200% issue ;)
Does anyone have ANY ideas on how to enlarge this to 200%? My computer will only print the one page. I figured that I would enlarge it by hand.
Impossible to enlarge this to 2 pages! Someone needs to go back to the drawing board!
I have been trying over and over to get onto the page where I can get the template and instructions and I hgo around and around. I can't be that stupid. what gives?
I love being able to get all this good information on Martha's web site. I have spent a lot of time trying to find templates and/or instructions--and I'm pretty computer literate. This site used to be much more user friendly. Wish they'd go back to that. Thanks for the hint on how to find the info.
Even though the template won't come up they have your email address so they can send you tons of commercials. The site is set up by geeks for geeks not normal people trying to nice for xmas
If you want the template, click on the small X on the top of the video before it starts. This will close the video and open the written directions and template link.
Hi Martha,
I made these beautiful bottle covers for myself, my mum and sisters for Christmas. I used Swarovski crystals as embellishments. Everyone loved them !
the template for this will not come up.