Making of a historical looking Leather covered bottle.

A couple of days ago, we emptied a bottle of St Brendan's Irish cream. My husband, of course wanted to throw away the empty bottle, but I took it, as I had a perfect idea to reuse it by! Why not recycle it and turn it into a historical looking leather bottle?!


First thing was to remove the label, all you need to do is let the bottle soak in very hot water... after a few minutes the labels will just slide off it leaving no glue residue behind.

Next step was measuring how much leather I would be needing to complete this project.
Since I had never worked with this bottle size before, I had to improvise a pattern from scratch... so I just drew the bottle onto the inner side of the leather and added around 2,5 cm extra.

Next step was shaping the leather to fit the bottle perfectly.

For doing so, I used some sewing aid clips that I have, they worked out perfectly without leaving any marks on the leather.
The only problem I faced was on the front side of the bottle, where the brand logo is, the leather lifted upwards a bit and I did not try to stretch it tighter as I did not want the glass logo to appear through it.

Next was punching holes all around in a way to make the leather extra tight and without showing any gaps.
This is what it looked like after the sewing was done. All I had to do was trim the edges to give them a neat edge.
I punched a few more holes to attach some copper rings, in case I want to add a handle to carry it by, or have it around my shoulder...
Last but not least, I tanned it with home made natural colors... and attached a cork to it!

I am still not done with it. I think I will be carving a nice Celtic or Viking design on it... but I haven't picked a design for it yet.


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