Yarn Wrapped Ornament Jingle Bell Wreath

Here's another wreath from last year... I was so excited to pull this one out of storage.

I had a lot of fun making this one.  I had seen some yarn-wrapped ornaments on display at Starbucks and fell in love immediately.

I started by wrapping the straw wreath form in yarn.

Then I wrapped a bunch of styrofoam balls with yarn.

I also added in some yarn-wrapped ornaments.  I liked that some of the sparkle of the ornament showed through.

Throw in a few jingle bells and whole mess of hot glue and you have yourself a yarny-ornament-jingle bell wreath!

What do you think?  Are you ready to start pulling your Christmas stuff out yet?  Now that it's getting colder I can't wait to get the tree up!

Blessings,

Jamie

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Sunflowery Wreath

Time to switch out Old Glory for something new

And this only took me an hour to do!

I'm usually not crazy about sunflowers, but this idea just hit me last week.  I really wanted to use coffee beans in the center and a sunflower seemed like a good fit. 

I guess since there isn't a hole in the middle of this thing, it isn't really a wreath.  Whatevs.

This pillow was part of my inspiration for the petals.  It was so easy to do and using felt makes for a really durable final product.

Here are all the supplies you'll need

• Felt in yellow, orange and brown
• Sharpie marker
• scissors
• coffee beans... I found a bag of "decorative" ones at Michaels on clearance for $.29!
• a paper plate or other cardboard-like circle around 10" in diameter
• glue gun

 Start by drawing your petal form onto the felt

Biggest petals:  2" x 6"
and there are 16 of them *done in yellow felt*

Medium petals:  2" x 4"
16 of these *done in yellow felt*

Smallest petals:  2" x 2.5"
12 of these *done in orange felt*

Cut out the petals and lay them out on your paper plate.  This step helps you determine if you have enough petals and you like the way the flower looks

This is the outermost row of petals.

Put a dab of hot glue near the base of a petal

Fold the two sides in near the base to make each petal more dimensional

*be careful not to burn yourself (like I did)*

Place them under something heavy to dry

I used a glass but a book would do.  Repeat this step until all your petals are curled up and glued

Now you get to form the flower.  Start with the biggest petals and hot glue each one to the plate.  The edge of the base of the petals in the outside row were about 3" in from the edge of the plate

Continue all the way around with that row.  Start the 2nd row (medium sized yellow petals) about 1" inside of where the first row petal edges are.  I think I got a little overzealous at this point... there aren't any pics from this step.

Start the 3rd row of smallest orange petals about 1" closer to the center than the 2nd row.  Go all the way around with the orange petals.  Then you'll have this

So far so good!  Now make a brown circle out of felt.  I loosely traced around a glass... this can be a very wacked out circle and still look good in my opinion

Cut out the brown circle and hot glue it to the center of your plate, covering the folded edges of your smallest flower petals

Now you start gluing your coffee beans to the brown felt

Do a small area at a time

Until the brown circle is completely covered

That's it!  I glued a string to the back of the plate so that I could hang it on the door.  Cheap.  Easy.  Fun!  This really brightens up the front door; it's just a cheery image to come home to.

Thanks for visiting!  It means so much to me that you took the time to stop by.  All the support from this community is making blogging so much fun!
Blessings,
Jamie
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American Flag Wreath, Sort Of

I love yarny wreaths!  They are a cheap and quick way to dress up your door

I originally thought I'd do one gigantic star, but it looked too much like the Texas flag

Or maybe the Puerto Rican flag

I have friends who are Puerto Rican and friends who are Texan, but I'm not looking to celebrate either of their native locales this summer.  I added a couple additional stars to look a little more like the US flag.

I began with a straw wreath

*Friends, do not unwrap the plastic from the wreath.  It is a lot of time and effort and you'll just get straw everywhere.  I have a loved one (whom shall remain nameless) that tried to unwrap the plastic from her straw wreath and she was frustrated before the project even really began.

You can do this with any kind of yarn, but I used worsted weight yarn because that is what I had on hand

If you ball your yarn, the wrapping process is soooo much easier.  I love having balled yarn around.  I just think it's pretty.  And convenient.

Here it is almost done.  If you have any stray pieces of yarn hanging out, you can just glue them down in the back of the wreath

I wanted my stars to be raised a little, so I cut an end off a match box and glued it to the back of a star before gluing it down

I did the same with the piece of cardboard that goes around an artist's eraser so that the stars were at varying heights

Added some hot glue

And ended up with this

All done!

Thanks for stopping by!  I'll be linking this up at a few different sites; be sure to check out my "links" page in the sidebar to see some really cool blogs.

Blessings,

Jamie

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