Disclaimer

It's not my fault.

I haven't blogged much lately, and it's not my fault. Blame it on my sister. Yeah, that's it. My sister. The one who sent me this facebook post, "Annette, get on Pinterest. Lou and I are very curious to see what you would pin". Well, I did get on Pinterest. I haven't done anything else, since. No dishes, very little cooking, no cleaning. I'm weak. I have no self-control. I've known that about myself for a long time. That's why I have so many collections. I see something (or things) that I want, I have to have them. I can't stop until I do. It's the same with pin boards. I have several. I want to keep adding to them, so I scour the internet and Pinterest boards, finding things that I want to make. (In self defense, I have actually made some of the things I've seen on pin boards.) Today's project posting is a pin project that I found last week. Here's the link to the tutorial. http://violetpaperwings.blogspot.com/2010/10/halloween-yarn-wreath.html

I've seen these felt flowers on lots of internet projects, but this is the best tutorial I've found on how to actually make them.

I made this wreath using plumbing foam from Home Depot ($.97 for a 6' length), which I cut in half. One half of the length makes a 12"-ish wreath. I hot glued the ends together, holding them until the glue cooled COMPLETELY. You can't even see the join, once the glue has cooled.



I wrapped the wreath form with this yarn: "Hometown USA" by Lion Brand Yarns. I tried regular yarn, but it wasn't chunky enough for my taste. I wanted chunky yarn, so it would fill in faster, and give a little more bulk to the wreath itself.

Then I cut various sized felt circles from red and cranberry colored felt squares. Probably 3", 4" and 5 or 6" circles. I cut a spiral in each felt circle, then wrapped the spiral, starting on the outer edge. Really, it's best to follow the tutorial in the link above.

When I finished wrapping felt flowers, I cut some leaves from sage felt, hot-glued them on the wreath form, hot-glued the flowers over the leaves, and then hot glued bead picks into the flower centers.

I think the wreath needs a big red bow, but I don't have the correct ribbon in my stash, so I'll get either a ribbon or a bow and then tie it onto the wreath.

The whole wreath cost less than $5.00, and I have plans to make one using autumn colored felt squares with buttons for the flower centers.