My friend Nancy invited me to a craft night to make yarn wreaths and since I already had plans and therefore can't go I decided to make my own. (Which I did and I love it.) Let me first say that when I heard the words yarn and wreath together I thought "this is not going to be good." But then I realized that Nancy was making them and since she is quite fashionable I thought I'd at least click on the link she sent with the invite. And let me tell you I am glad I did. I absolutely adore these wreaths! You see I have been without wreaths for years now (other than a Christmas one that I rather like but that my husband hates). And so over these wreathless years when I am at the craft store I will occasionally look through the wreaths but never find anything I really love (or if I did find something it was outrageously expensive). So I am extremely excited to realize that I can make custom wreaths, to my exact desires, for $8 or less. That is $8 if I needed to buy all the supplies. But since I already own a large pile of felt, a ton of ribbon, and a huge basket of yarn - I really only need to buy the wreaths, which are $2.99 and a few extra details to decorate with. How great is that? In fact I have already planned to make myself one for every season plus Halloween and Christmas. I am having the best time coming up with color schemes and decorations for each one. And since it is September I decided to make an autumnal one first - I finished it yesterday and really like how it turned out.
If you want to make one for yourself instructions and examples are here and here. I found it helpful to refer to both blogs, because they each have slightly different directions and examples of finished wreaths- so between the two I figured out more of what I wanted to do. Anyway that's my craft of the day- see you next time!
6 comments:
Heather~ That turned out great!!! You cracked me up with the "yarn and wreath together" comment. I can't wait to do mine, but I haven't even thought of a design yet. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you for the great idea! Though it's been around for years (where have I been?) I am glad you told me about them. I am a bit addicted now. So watch out!
Wow, so cute! I looove how the flowers turned out! :D My Brain is now scheming wreath ideas as well. Maybe some of those longish twigs sticking out... lol.
ADORABLE! I've seen only one before and it was cute so now I am totes excited that I can make one on my own. Yours is killing me with the cuteness and autumnal-ness!
Well I've been thinking about choosing a crafty book for the next time I host book club (which is in Nov) so we can make these at it. It only takes a little over and hour to do it - so I thought it would be fun to make them while we chat. Whaddya think?
yours turned out so cute. the flowers are beautiful. i think this idea was big during the early 80's. seems like we had one. the 2011 version is much hipper, though.
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