Burlap Wreaths

This is what we did on our craft day 2/13/11.

We all met at Brandi Jo's for a girl's (Laura, Londi, Meagan, Brandi Jo of course, and me.....Cassidy) craft day.  Everyone's wreath had personal variations.  I made mine for a wedding gift for a wedding I'm going to in September.  I will definitely be making more of these.  They are labor intensive but not difficult.

 Here is the step by step.

Step 1--We laid the burlap out on a flat surface.  We used the floor.

Step 2--We used a ruler to measure our strips.  We measured 4 inches to get it thick like the picture about but you can do as thin or thick as you like.

Step 3--Once we had cuts in the burlap 4 inches apart.  Brandi Jo showed use a trick to make our strips straight.  You find a string from either side of the slit and pull it gently.  Sometimes it breaks off but you can grab it again once you get down to where the string broke.

Step 4--When all the strings were pulled, we cut the strips.

Step 5--After the strips were cut, we took wire hangers and un-did them and made them into a semi circle.

Step 6--Once the hangers were in a semi circle we fed the burlap strips on back and forth in the middle, so it looked like an inchworm moving.

Step 7--Once all the  strips had been fed on, we made the hanger into a circle and wire wrapped the ends around each other.

Step 8--After the wire wrapping was done, we started on our details pieces.  For mine I had bought a wooden letter R and wanted to add some blue and purple flowers to mine.

Ad you can see from the picture I didn't want them all to be the same, I wanted the blue and purple flower to be in the center.

To make the flowers, I cut circles out of fabric freehand.  Then glued the different pices together. In the center of the flowers I hot glued pearl-looking buttons.  To make them have a multi-dimensional look we added some hot glue and squeezed them together.

To make it look full you just have to mess with it a little bit and move the burlap along the wire.

We had a blast making them and are going to try to do a craft together each month.