Napkin rings with wine cork stoppers, wire and beads, DIY project

This project is absolutely great. It includes a recycling idea since we are using the used wine bottle corks.

 

This is a great practical idea (you can make them for any holiday dinner party and they are inexpensive) and they are a lovely piece of home decor. Albina (albinasjewelry) and I made this project together during our last get-together gathering and I am going to use my napkin rings for the coming Thanksgiving party. 

 If you like this idea here is how we made this.

Materials and Tools:

Pre-drilled wine corks

Wire 26ga and 20 ga

Beads of your choice

Mandrel, 1” diameter

Round nose pliers

1. Cut piece of 20 a wire, 2 ft long. Slide the wire through the cork’s hole, center the cork. Place a cork against a mandrel and start wrapping the wire ends around the mandrel, feeding the wire ends through the cork’s hole. 

2. Wrap the wire until you have 2” of wire ends coming out the cork. Using round nose pliers and chain nose (or flat nose) pliers, make spirals. Place the spiral so it is covering the hole.

3. Attach 26ga wire; wrap the ring, adding beads.

 

We made several sets of these using different materials and I've already given 2 sets as gifts to my friends.

 

They liked them a lot!

Gift wrapping idea, a wine bottle cover

This knitted bottle cover is available now at our socksandmittens shop. We think it will be a nice way to present your bottle of wine during holiday season. There will be parties and celebrations so the bottle of wine is always a nice gift for the hostess.

We knit these cozies out of acrylic yarn so cleaning them  is easier. They can be machine or hand washed, then lay your cozy flat to dry. These will fit standard wine bottles or any similar size round bottles.

 

We made several of them in different colors and I will be adding them to our shop shortly. They can be made in custom colors or yarn also, just let us know what you have in mind.