How to make a Christmas Wreath.

Here’s a cute Christmas wreath I made. It was the second crafty thing that I did after the wee one was born. The first was to take a quilting class and make wee one a quilt for his first birthday. This used all the scraps from the quilt that I couldn’t bear to be parted with.

The best things about this is that it doesn’t involve any sewing.

How to Make a Christmas Wreath:

You will need:

• A foam wreath (you can get these from Spotlight).
• All your old leftover scrappy bits of fabric (the more, the better).
• Fabric scissors.
• Short pins (I used the ones with little metal heads) but the glass headed ones might be even prettier and make a feature.
• A length of ribbon to make a big bow- this ribbon is wired, so you can make it all rippley and sticky outy

I added some of my birdies as you can see, but this year I think I might jazz it up a bit with something brighter.

To make:

There are no hard and fast rules for this wreath.

• I cut my scraps to be really rough square shapes approx the same size (about an inch square).
• Then you just pin pin pin pin pin little scraps of fabric all over the wreath until the entire surface is covered and you get a fluttery, fuzzy edged appearance.
• I think another really nice idea would be to shape the fabric scraps into something pleasing to you, like flowers, bows, hearts or holly leaf shapes (I think this would work well if you ironed some interfacing to the back to give the piece some body).

Original inspiration for this wreath came from this rather moving prayer tree (at least I’m pretty sure that’s what it was) I saw once in Cyprus. I love how the Greek culture is so tied up in this very rigid, ceremonial Orthodox Christianity and their very superstitious ancient Greek pagan heritage with evil eyes and such. Anyway, I digress. This tree, more like a big scrubby shrub, was near Aphrodite’s Falls (the birthplace of Aphrodite) and was covered with prayers written on scraps of paper and tied onto the scratchy little branches. There again, the ancient pagan and the religious.

Another idea (stemming from this) would be to tie your fabric up into little knots and pin the centre to the wreath.

I would love to see any of your finished wreathes and post pictures of them here on the site.

Happy Creating!

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