XOXO Valentine’s Day Bottle Vase

Valentine’s Day is not far off and honestly it’s never too early to start making something fun for that special someone. This DIY XOXO Valentine’s Day Bottle Vase is really a lot of fun to make and turned out so pretty! You can also check out this Valentine’s Day Dishtowel if you are looking for another great Valentine’s gift.

XOXO Valentine’s Day Bottle Vase

Supplies:

• empty bottle
• white or ivory yarn
• red yarn
• twine
• twigs
• hot glue and glue gun

If you have any empty sparkling juice bottles left from New Year’s Eve, this is a perfect craft for one!

Instructions:

Use a small amount of hot glue to secure the end of the ivory yarn at the top of the bottle.  Carefully wrap the yarn around the bottle, keeping the rows tight together.

You may need to use a little bit of hot glue as you go to keep the yarn from slipping.  As the bottle tapers, the yarn is more likely to slip.

Continue wrapping and gluing the yarn until you’ve covered about 1/3 of the bottle.  Cut the ivory yarn and secure it with glue on what will be the back side of the vase.

Use the hot glue to secure the end of the red yarn and repeat the same process as above to cover the next 1/3 of the bottle with the red yarn.  Cut the yarn and secure on the back side of the vase.

Repeat the above steps to cover the rest of the bottle with ivory yarn.  This time, do not cut and glue the yarn at the bottom of the vase.  Instead, wrap the ivory yarn back up the bottle, adding more thickness to the ivory and a crisscross pattern over the red yarn.  Continue wrapping over the top 1/3 of the bottle.  Cut the yarn and secure it on the back, top of the bottle.

Next cut 6 strands of twine.  Divide into 3 sets of 2 and braid together.  Cut into two lengths.  Use hot glue to shape and secure them into an “O”.

Cut twigs into small pieces.  Bundle the twigs in sets of three and glue them together to form an “X”.  You’ll need to make two of them.  Wrap a short piece of twine around the cross point of the twigs.

To finish your vase, glue the “X’s” and “O’s” to the yarn as shown.

Fill your vase with real flowers, artificial flowers, or like I did with yarn pom pom flowers which are easy to make!

More Valentine’s Ideas:

DIY Valentine’s Day Dishtowel

Valentine’s Printables

Pom Pom Flowers (as seen in the vase above)