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For months, I have been eying this wreath.  I was way too slow deciding if I wanted to purchase it or not. Of course it sold. I’ve had it pinned on my Pinterest board ever since, thinking maybe I could figure out how to make my own.  I finally did!  My flowers don’t look exactly the same, and my color combination is different, but the basic idea is still there.

Here’s what mine looks like (and please don’t judge the photo quality – I took these photos with my nifty Instagram app).

Here’s how I made it:

Supplies:

1. I purchased one of the cheap ($4) hay-looking wreaths.  I am fairly certain I got it for $2 because Hobby Lobby was having a half off sale.  I chose this one because I wanted my wreath to be circular. I didn’t like that the foam wreaths had an awkward squared edge to them.  This part is all about personal preference.
2. I wasn’t sure what colors I wanted my wreath to be, so I picked up four different yarn colors (each $3.99, but half off that cost because again… they were having a sale).
3. The felt was four sheets of 8.5″x11″ for $1.  I bought two shades of gray and a few maroon ones as well.

Total cost for supplies: $9.50 + tax, including the two entire extra skeins of yarn I didn’t even end up using.

Process:

1. I tied the first bit of yarn in place and began wrapping the yarn tightly around the wreath form. I began with yellow. I did not measure out each section to make sure I was spacing the two colors equally and correctly. I didn’t have an overall plan before I started, but just went with the flow.
2. The yarn will slip when you’re wrapping it around the wreath. I realized this pretty quickly, and began applying a bit of glue to the surface of the hay wreath and then wrapping the yarn over it.
3. To transition from each color, I cut the color I was currently working on from the skein of yarn. I tied that loose end to the color I wanted to switch to.  I left a little extra yarn hanging from the knot, and wrapped the new color over it to ensure that my knots wouldn’t slip free or break to then have my wreath unravel.  That would be no bueno.
4. After I finished wrapping my wreath with yarn, I went back to Pinterest to look up a how-to-make-felt-flowers tutorial.  I found this one, which even shows another version of a similar yarn wreath.
5. You can see that my felt flowers were not all exactly alike. I played with how tight I wound the felt to make the flowers. I used more or less hot-glue to test the exact amount that I would need. I slathered the hot glue on pretty thick on the back to make sure it wouldn’t go flying off the wreath when it was finally hanging on our front door. (It’s pretty windy around our house).

Words of Advice:

1. Wind your yarn tighter than you think you’ll need to. Don’t be afraid to overlap the yarn. I tried to be so careful making all of the yarn line up perfectly. If you look at the images above, you’ll see that once the wreath was hung on my door, it expanded a bit. There are a few holes where the hay-wreath can be seen. If I were doing this again, I would add additional yarn and maybe be a bit messier about wrapping it.

So, that’s my yarn wreath with felt flowers. Have you made one? Leave a link to it in the comments section. I’d love to check it out!