Wine Bottle Glasses

Wine Bottle Glasses

My first attempt at making wine bottle glasses was a total failure, but I persevered and I am now a pro at how to cut a wine bottle. Surprisingly, the cutting the wine bottle is by far the easiest part of making wine bottle crafts. Getting the label off the bottle and sanding down the rim after splitting the bottle are much much more difficult and time consuming!

I think this is probably my favorite of the recycled crafts I am making right now. So far I have only made drinking glasses and wine bottle vases but I've pinned a few other inspiring upcycled wine bottle creations to my Pinterest boards.

Do a google search and you will find numerous tutorials for cutting wine bottles and how to make glasses out of wine bottles online. Of course if you find the wrong one, you will end up as disappointed as I was the first time. I am considering doing a wine bottle glasses tutorial of my own, I'm just not sure where to start. Should I start from getting the label off the bottle and go all the way through sanding the rim? Or should I just to a how to on the actual breaking of the bottle?

Wine Bottle Drinking Glasses

Wine Bottle Drinking Glasses

Wine Bottle Drinking Glasses

I have been so excited to try this! Fire and breaking glass, what could possibly be more fun? I've been saving my bottles since I first came across wine bottle drinking glasses on Pinterest. Over the weekend some friends and I from my Meetup group, South Bay Upcycled Sewing, got together to break glass.

We had a blast, but sadly the photo above was our only successful glass from our 18 broken bottles. We were a bummed at our results but not deterred. All the tutorials we'd seen had made it seem so easy. There must be some simple explanation for our failure. We thought it may lie in more ice. Our bottles were breaking but we were getting a lot of fractures and cracks.

We played around with different yarn too. At first we were using acrylic, not a good choice. It didn't burn hot enough. When we switched to cotton we got a much hotter flame but still no better results.

After my friends went home I was determined to get to the bottom of this! I scoured the internet looking for alternative methods and an explanation for our poor results. I found one, I place an order for a bottle glass cutter and I am eagerly awaiting it's arrival. Stay tuned for Wine Bottle Drinking Glasses take 2!

Breaking bottles with FIRE!