5 Easy Steps to Make a Bottle Holder From a Single Piece of String

This brief tutorial is based on my recent wanderings around the hills of Northern Italy. It was dusk as I began my several hour walk and about half-way to my destination a cloud rolled in, covering the path and helping me to get lost for an extra hour. Luckily, I had a nice chilled bottle of white wine to refresh my body and spirits.

While wandering these paths, I realize that I could do with a nice wine pouch or sling, so that I did not need to keep putting the bottle in and out of my backpack. Finding a nice strong length of string (about three feet long), I worked out a way to create a simple wine sling to serve me for the day. The following five steps are a quick “How To.”

(1)Have a bottle of wine / be on a mountain path

(2) Take a length of string, approximately three feet long. Near the middle of the string, tie two slip knots into the string about 3 centimeters apart from each other. Ensure that you tie the knots so that each one can be tightened by pulling on the string end leading away from it — this is important because it means that tension in the string makes it grip the bottle more tightly.