HankOrange: Thanksgiving Fall Wreath Tutorial

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Supplies Needed:

~ Styrofoam Wreath {can be found at any craft store}

~ DMC floss, various colors

~ Burlap or any fabric, cut into strips roughly 2” wide

~ Felt, various fall colors

~ Fabric flowers {mine are made of felt and silk}

~ Needle

~ Pins

Cut burlap into strips, roughly 2” wide. My strips were about two feet long, so I needed roughly four strips of burlap.

Then take the strips of burlap and wrap them around the wreath, overlapping as I went along. I used pins to make sure the ends of each piece stayed in place.

Next step, and the most time consuming part, making the leaves. Cut leaves from the various colors of felt. Depending on how many leaves you want on your wreath will determine how many you’ll need to cut. I used about 20 on my wreath.

Take your first color of DMC embroidery floss and cut a piece {I cut about 15 inches}, thread it into your needle, then tie a knot at the non-threaded end. Starting from the backside and bottom of one leaf, push the needle and thread through. Put the needle back through the felt leaf roughly ½ centimeter up the side of the leaf. Continue this process all the way around the leaf. Tie a knot at the end, cut the remaining thread, and start the process all over again on the next leaf.

Making the fabric flowers {you can skip this and leave the flowers off the wreath to save more time}. HERE is a fabulous tutorial on how to make fabric flowers by Tatortots and Jello.

Once you have ‘decorated’ all your leaves and created your flowers, you’re ready to finish the wreath!

This is the fun part {but also the part that took me the longest- cause I couldn’t make up my mind!} Take the felt leaves you made and lay them around the wreath however you like. Place the fabric flowers on top of the leaves. I put the majority of mine on one half, and three on the opposite side. Once you have the leaves and flowers where you’d like, you can use pins {or glue, or whatever you’d like} and stick the leaves and flowers in place.