Wine Bottle Aprons for New Year's Eve

Dressing up a bottle of sparkling wine

     When I bought a bunch of designs from Designs by JuJu, one of the free designs was this bottle apron.  I figured I only had this year to use it so I decided to use it to dress up champagne bottles that I brought to the various parties we went to over the holidays.

Silver fabric in my stash

     I found this silver, stretchy fabric in my stash that I thought would be very festive.  I did iron on a stabilizer/backing so it wouldn't stretch.

Stabilizer to back stretchy fabric

     I had bought a bolt of this SF101 so I could make tree skirts, it was just right to get rid of the stretch without adding a lot of bulk.

Hooped two layers of this

     I hooped two layers of Wet N Melt and stitched the placement line for the batting and face fabric.  I placed both layers as instructed and then did the tack-down stitch.  Then I had to trim both layers.  I found that I couldn't get as close as I wanted, it was too bulky.  On the next two I did, I did one layer at a time, repeating the tack-down stitch.  I was able to trim closer and I got a better finished edge.

Face fabric stitched, ready for trimming

     After I trimmed the front, all the fancy stitching was done.  Then I placed the backing piece on the back of the hoop and held it in place with painter's tape.  After trimming the backing to size, I had to change to a black bobbin for the finished edge,  I then trimmed close to the finished edge and used a damp finger to remove the rest of the Wet N Melt.  That left a nice clean edge.

Finished apron

     I then cut open the button holes with my craft knife and threaded through the ribbons.  It was a fun project, especially after I finished changing the colors on the machine, it went rather quick with my multi needle machine.

Ribbons added