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Knit Hats and Santa Suits for Wine Bottles

Add a festive gift-giving touch to your wine bottles with these tiny knit hats to add to the top of the bottles, and scrapbook paper santa suits to wrap around them.
Author: Beverly

Materials:

For The Knit Hats:

  • US Size 4 Knitting Needles
  • Small amount of red yarn (size 4 weight)
  • Small amount of white yarn (size 4 weight)
  • Small white pom poms
  • Tapestry needle
  • Needle and thread for sewing pom pom to hat

For the Santa Suits:

  • Dark red scrapbook paper
  • White scrapbook paper
  • Black ribbon
  • Small white pom poms
  • Double sided tape or glue

Instructions:

To Knit the Hats:

  • Cast on 20 stitches in white.
    Knit 3 rows.
  • Break off the white yarn and attach the red.
    Knit 1 row
    Purl 1 row
  • Begin Decreases:
    Row 1: K2 tog, knit across to last 2 stitches, K2 tog
    Row 2:  Purl
    Repeat these two rows until 6 stitches remain on needle
    Final row: K2 tog, K2, K2 tog (4 sts)
  • Cut yarn leaving a long tail. Thread the tail of yarn through the tapestry needle and then pull through the stitches to remove them from the needle. Use the tail of yarn to sew the seam down the back of the hat. Weave in any remaining yarn ends. Sew a pom-pom onto the top of the hat.
  • Sew a pom-pom onto the top of the hat using a needle and thread.

To Make the Santa Suits:

  • Cut a 4¼" x 10" piece of red scrapbook paper and wrap it around the bottle, overlapping the edges in the back and securing with double sided tape.
  • Then cut a 1" x 10" piece of white scrapbook paper and secure around the bottle in the same way, positioning the white strip at the bottom of the red strip, overlapping slightly.
  • To create a "belt", cut a 10" piece of black ribbon and wrap it around the bottle, securing it in the back with double stick tape or glue. You can also cut a small "belt buckle" from white scrapbook paper and glue to the front - or - you might be able to find some kind of scrapbooking embellishment (like I did) that resembles a belt buckle.
  • Glue four very small white pom poms to the front for buttons. Glue two pom poms above the belt, and two pom poms below the belt.