La Femme's Crafts-Front Door Wreath

Some of my wedding details.  I either ordered them from etsy or forced my poor husband or mother to do them :)
Photos courtesy of Angela and Evan Photography

When I was planning a wedding, I had grand crafting plans.  In reality, a lot of the diy elements of my wedding came from etsy.com.  Everything else, I guilted my much craftier husband into helping me with and ultimately doing for me (and my mom.  Two days before the wedding she was convinced we did favors, so she and my dad spent an afternoon making and filling favor boxes).  Since the wedding,  I found that I miss the planning elements of the wedding.   Now on pinterest, I had to look at food and home decor!  So I definitely wanted to do a couple more crafty projects around the house.

Of course the problem with that is that my home decor style is anything but crafty.  I like some artisanal items, but with my limited crafting ability, I was afraid that anything I tried would look homemade and terrible.  That is when I thought of trying a wreath for my door.  That way, I didn't have to worry about it clashing with the rest of my house, and if it turned out well, I could do them for different holidays, seasons etc.

That lead me to making a yarn wreath for my front door. One of the semi failed projects for my wedding were yarn letters.  I made five.  A J, a K and an I DO.  Only three of them ended up at the wedding and in the 800 or so photos I got from my photographer there were exactly zero (you don't see any of them above!).  But this project actually turned out pretty well and it was really easy.  

Yarn Wreath with Felt Flowers

Supplies:

- 1 foam wreath

- yarn (you can do one color or stripes like I did)
- felt (I used one color for the flowers and one for the leaves)
-glue gun

It is almost so simple that you don't really need a tutorial.  You simply wrap the yarn around the foam wreath.  Wrap it tight and as evenly as you can.  I made marks for where I wanted the stripes.  I just eyeballed it and didn't care if it was even.

Finally I added some felt flowers (there are tons of better tutorials online if you are interested in making these).  This is the part I was scared of doing but it was actually really simple and I am pretty happy with how they turned out.  I cut out a bunch of different sizes of circles, then you simply cut a spiral through the entire circle.  I wrapped it into a flower shape as tightly as I could and then I simply hot glued the end.  I free formed some leaf shapes in the green felt and strategically put them under.  I then laid it out the way I wanted it and hot glued them on.

Here is the finished project! I did it in the span of a few afternoons while watching the Real Housewives (and maybe enjoying a glass of wine.  I don't believe in crafting without liquor!) and I think it probably took me three hours to complete.

Julie