Felt Wreath Tutorial

So last week I showed you one of the felt wreaths I’d been coveting eyeing for my front door for Hanukkah.  Of course, within minutes of marking it as a favorite on Etsy it sold, and the more I thought about it the more there were some things I wanted slightly different as I wanted a wreath to carry me from Hanukkah all the way until Valentine’s Day, thus enabling me to be both lazy and cheap {an impressive feat, if I do say so, myself}.  So after looking at several dozen yarn and felt wreaths here’s what I did:

I know a lot of people use straw wreaths but all the ones my Michaels had were rather pitiful and misshapen so I went with a floral one instead.  They also had a ton of yarn on super sale this week, so I got both skeins for $4.

I tied the end of the skein onto the wreath and simply started wrapping.  And then wrapped some more.  A lot more.  At the end of the one skein, I tied the two together in a small knot and added in the second.  I wanted the wreath a little thicker than the original form, so I finished using the whole second skein even though I’d finished covering the green part already.

Next up came making the flowers.  While my Felt So Cute felt flowers are fun to make, I wanted something a little more minimalistic for a door wreath.  So I went back to easy spiral flowers like I learned at summer camp years ago.  Start with a basic circle in a variety of sizes.

And yes, that’s my second chai latte of the day.  Wanna make something of it?

Start cutting in a spiral about a half inch thick until you get to the middle.

Then start at the middle of your spiral and start wrapping tightly.  Every now and then add a bead of glue from your glue gun.

Play around with different sizes and placement until you have what you want, and make the decision whether or not you want leaves.  Then simply glue gun everything in place directly onto the wreath.  I then took some satin ribbon the same color as my yarn and tied a long loop around the wreath and a bow.

So easy The Cuties helped make flowers!

The whole thing cost less than $10, and now I can think of all sorts of other ideas for Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc!

 

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