Well I love decorating for Christmas and when I was a child someone taught my mom how to make Christmas wreaths. I used to watch, occasionally I even helped her. I learned how to do it myself. If you can, you want to wax the string. I can't find my wax... and we don't get horrible winters here so the yarn I have here will work. This wreath cost me mainly nothing but time. I had all the stuff on hand and I sent my child off to the creek to bring me back an armful of evergreen. Sadly it was cedar so my hands got itchy and my nose ran, but once I was done, I recovered quickly.
So tools you need you are pictured here:
Scissors
Wire cutters
Nippers
String
1 wire hanger
An armful of evergreen
(Ribbon and decorations if you like.)
I started By cutting off the hook. You can just shape into a circle and keep the hook to hang the wreath with, but since I plan on giving this one away I took the hook off.
Make a circle with the wire, and use the pliers to twist it together.
Grab a bundle of evergreen and use a a loop or slip knot, tighten it down without breaking the string.
Do at least 2 slip knots for every bundle, then wrap well to secure them to the wire frame.
you can use a bunch of slip knots or just wrap the bundle tightly.
Overlap the bundles so the string is not visible.
This is the size bundle I was using, about a handful.
Too much and it becomes hard to manage to small and you make lots of knots.
Just keep adding until you get close to the edge.
Be sure as you get close to finishing, not to trap the original bundle
The last bundle is more difficult as you have to seat it under and close to the first bundle.
Looks like I need one more for it to be look right,
Lets squeeze one more in there.
This is what the back looks like
Trim off any areas that are crazy "out there".
Or are headed in the wrong direction.
I added some left over fabric from a Halloween costume.
And I'm done.
Cost to me about 10 cents worth of yarn and one coat hanger
Time: about 30 minutes.
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