Spring Burlap & Fabric Wreath

It’s been a while since I made my last wreath.

I’ve been contemplating on what to make next, and then I realized I’m ready for a spring wreath.

With the flowers and trees starting to bloom {well, they’ve been blooming here since mid-February…} and seeing that it’s March I’m ready for Spring.

Like I’ve said before I have a slight addiction to wreaths…not quite sure where that came from, but I just.love.them.

Yes, yes, I even have a separate “board” on Pinterest just for wreaths….

I found a couple that I just adore and it got me thinking…I can do one of these {with my own twist, so I’m not actually ‘copying’}.

Here they are:

This one is made out of a canvas drop cloth…so clever!

SOURCE: Brown Paper Packages

And this one is made of white burlap.

SOURCE: The Ginger Snap Crafts

There’s tons more out there I’m sure, but these two really caught my eye. I love how they’re kind of “messy” looking if you will…you know not straight lines and all perfectness. I love that.

Well, this got me thinking and I wanted to make one of these wreaths, with my own twist.

So here you go…ready? My Spring wreath

Here’s what I used {in case you want to make one…}

For this wreath I used a wire floral wreath form.

Fabric I had on hand

Burlap

Scissors

Ruler

Pen

I laid out my fabric and burlap and for each one I made a mess of 1” X 12” strips.

If you look at the wreath form, you can see there’s two sets of two wires…there’s the outer 2 and the inner 2. Well, seeing that I like things poufy I wanted to put the strips on both sections instead of all around the whole form.

I took a strip at at time and tied it around the outer 2 wires. I only tied it once…it’s all that was needed.

I went on like this kind of squishing them together to make them tight.

Once the outer section was done, I moved to the inside.

It didn’t take too long…maybe and hour to do all the tying and two hours total from start to finish.

I just love it and think it’s perfect for my front door for Spring.

I hung it today and stepped back…

Yes, it’s cute, but missing something…looks kind of plain.

I thought for a minute and then had an idea.

I cut out “Happy Spring!” from my Silhouette SD in pink vinyl and put it on the door.

Now it’s perfectly “Spring-y”.

What do you think?

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