{Crafty Tutorial} Festive Thanksgiving Yarn Wreath

Hey everyone!  I am back today to tell you about what I did with those fun felt flowers that I showed you how to make in yesterday's post.  I have been seeing some very cute yarn wreaths on Pinterest and was itching to try my hand at making one too.  I thought since it was time to take down the Halloween door decorations that I would make a festive Thanksgiving-ish wreath to use for the month of November. 

For the first part of this project, I took a foam wreath form that I bought at the craft store and wrapped it with light brown yarn. 

I started by tying a knot on the back of the wreath to keep the yarn in place.  From that point you just start wrapping the yarn around and around.  Please be warned...the wrapping of the yarn takes A LONG TIME!  I had to break it up over a few days because my hands and arms would get tired.  One tip I have for wrapping the yarn is to make a small ball of yarn first so it is easier to pass through the middle of the wreath.  If your ball of yarn runs out just tie a new piece of yarn onto the existing one and keep on wrapping, girl!

 I did two laps of yarn around my wreath to make sure all of the ugly green foam was covered.  Here is a picture of what the wreath will look like when you are done with what seems like it will never end wrapping.

Next, I decided to embellish my wreath using my felt flowers that I made and some fall berries that I picked up at the craft store as well.  I didn't really have any idea of what I wanted to do so I just started laying things out and playing with it until it looked the way that I wanted it to look.

After I had everything the way I wanted it, I took a picture of it and then took all the flowers off so that I could glue on the berries. 

After the berries were glued down, I simply replaced the felt flowers and laid them out like I had them in my picture.  Then, one by one I picked up a flower and hot glued it on.  It went super quick and was very easy.

After you get your flowers glued on and looking good, you can either choose to be done or add a little something more to your wreath.  Should you choose to continue, keep reading!

I thought it would be fun to add some chipboard letters that I painted.

I glued the letters onto two pieces of the same yarn that the wreath was wrapped in.  It was a little bit tricky to get the letters glued on but with a little patience it is possible.  I put a little hot glue on the back of the letter and laid it on top of the yarn and then just pulled it off my scrap board so that it would stick to that as well.   

I then attached my strings of letters onto my wreath by hot gluing them to the back of my wreath.  The finished product turned out pretty well, I think.  I had to try some different things to get it to hang on my front door but I was able to figure something out.

Anyone else working on something Thanksgiving-ish for their front door?  Hopefully, you will be inspired to try a yarn wreath someday, even though it is time consuming, just stick with it and you will be very happy with the end result! 

(Crafty Tutorial) No-Sew Cutesy Felt Flowers

Has anyone else been wanting to learn how to make those cute felt flowers that can be seen on headbands, wreaths, embellishments on frames, etc.?  I never thought it could be so easy and simple!  So I am here today to show you how to make these very cute flowers.  They don't involve any sewing at all, which is great for me, considering 1) I don't really know how to sew and 2) I don't own a sewing machine!  I hope you enjoy this quick and easy tutorial!

You will need a few things to make these flowers:

• A few sheets of felt (any color you would like, one sheet can make about 4 or 5 flowers depending on how big you want them; I bought my felt sheets at Hobby Lobby where they were 4 for $1.)
• Scissors 
• A marker or pen 
• A CD or something round to trace 
• Hot glue gun 
• Optional: Buttons or gems for embellishment

The first thing to do is to place the CD on the felt and trace around the outside of it. 

Then cut out the circle along the line that you traced.

Then starting anywhere on the outside of the circle, make a cut and continue cutting towards the middle of the circle.  This process reminds me of how you would cut out a snake when you were little.  It is hard to explain but the picture should help.

You will continue to cut towards the middle until you have a small circle left.  You need to keep this small circle at the end to glue onto the bottom of your flower, but more on that in a minute.  Your felt circle should look like the picture below when done cutting.

Next, you will begin from where you first started cutting and roll the felt in your fingers.  You will continue rolling the felt up until you get to the small circle that you left at the end. 

 

Next, you will put a small dab of hot glue in the middle of the bottom of the flower, under that small circle flap and then press the flap down. 

Then, your flower should be complete and ready for whatever project you will use them for!

 

You may choose to add an embellishment to the center of your flower as well.  I had some colorful buttons lying around and used a few for my flowers.

If you are wondering what I am going to do with my felt flowers, stay tuned for tomorrow's post!! I am working on a fun wreath project using these cutesy felt flowers!  I also plan on making some of these flowers to use for headbands since they were so, so EASY! Anyone else make any no-sew flowers lately?? They are uber-easy!