Handmade Wreaths for Every Season
The skills most wreath projects rely on: choosing a base, attaching materials, composing a design, tying a bow, hanging and storing.
6 tutorials published
Clean the wreath, protect the bow, give it its own box or hanging cover, and keep it somewhere cool, dry and dark. Storage notes for faux, dried, paper, fabric, grapevine and fresh wreaths.
Four ways to hang a wreath without nails, plus an option for glass, and how to add a hanging loop and felt pads so the wreath sits flat and the door stays unmarked.
Pinch, loop and twist wired-edge ribbon into a four- or six-loop bow, bind the center with floral wire, and attach it with the wire tails.
How to plan a wreath layout: full ring, crescent or cluster, where to place focal pieces, how many to use, and how to limit color.
Five ways to fix material to a wreath base, which base each one suits, how to bind overlapping bundles with paddle wire and how to test the hold.
The five common wreath bases, what attaches well to each one, how much of the ring shows and how the finished width grows beyond the base size.
