I had some leftover 3mm cord from the angel I made and wanted to try covering a bottle. The instructions I found were pretty vague on a few things. The length of each cord is 6x's the size of the part of the bottle you are covering (except the one you are wrapping around the top to tie to - so an odd number plus the extra long one). By not reading ahead, I didn't catch that it didn't include covering the bottom of the bottle. Since there was no pic, I also didn't understand that the square knots would need to stretch around (though I did OK at that) and for a shaped bottle, they may have to go in and out in distance from each other. I used a bottle I had leftover from a while ago (I like bottles - at least I get rid of most of them!). There was no instruction to space the first knots around the top - luckily I've done other crafts and recognized this would need to happen. The knots tend to "shrink" or pull up just like netting (shocker) so you have to keep pulling down to see if the knots are still somewhat centered and how many more rows to do. Instead of cutting and gluing the ends to the bottom, I decided to tie them across to each other - this formed a star and made me happy. I did one more knot on the star tips to help protect the bottom, cut and cheated by gluing the last knots in place with Elmer's. I kind of want to do a strap for it now, but have a bunch of other projects going. Maybe for Pennsic.
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