Crafting in my spare time (what??)

I got this beautiful fall wreath from my mom for my birthday, handmade with love and lots of hours. She brought it to Fred's house for our joint birthday celebration, and Fred oohed and awed over it. Meanwhile, I had been seeing these "how to make ribbon wreaths" on Pinterest and had wanted to try my hand at it. So I set off to Michael's to make a wreath for Fred's front door.

I got a wire frame, sparkly pipe cleaners for wire (which I cut in half) a large spool of mesh ribbon, two rolls of other sparkly ribbon, and then some floral decor for the final product.

Here's my progress photos - it cost about $25 (some fall stuff was on sale) and took me about an hour to complete.

First layer of mesh ribbon. I went four times around from the inside to the outside and had plenty of ribbon left. Leave a tail at the beginning and end if you want one. They had gold and chocolate brown for fall colors - I picked gold to not be too dark. They had other colors but mostly bright primes and neons.


After four layers.


Added first decorative ribbon, alternating front and back tying spots. This took the whole roll plus had two tails. Just a decorative diamond pattern in fall colors.


Second ribbon added, alternating the opposite sides from the first. It had fall leaves on it.


Final touches - added a leafy backing, with a sparkly leaf overlay, and then some berries on too. I wrapped the bottom stems with some chocolate wire ribbon I had to hide the plastic stems. Secured it with the pipecleaner wires onto the bottom of the wreath at the tail section.


On my front door!



This was my first time doing this, and I'll probably branch out at Christmas time. I saw some burlap ribbon that I would like to try to see if it works as well.

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