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Friday, November 4, 2011

Burlap Wreath

Today I'm excited to share with you a burlap/flower wreath I made to hang on my door. It was extremly quick and easy. I used a foam wreath for the base, i cut two long strips of burlap, fabric hextagons, felt and a glue gun of course!
I started by cutting the strips of burlap using my Simplicity Rotary Cutter. My hubs got it for me and I'm not sure if he knew what he got but it is awesome! It cuts fabric and paper at different sizes all with a push on a foot pedal. The result is always straight and fast!
Simplicity Rotary Cutter

After I had cut my strips ( I just eyeballed how long I thought they needed to be to cover the entire wreath). I hot glued one end and began wrapping it around the wreath gluing it periodically.

After that was done I began to work on the fabric flowers. I had recently purchased a pack of coordinating hexagon fabric scraps from Joann Fabrics and used those. I have made these same flowers by using circle cut outs of fabric in all the same size. I used 8 hexagons per flower and glued them to a felt circle. I folded each hexagon into a triangle, then folded it into another triangle and glued the point to the felt.


The bottom layer
The finished flower!

After I made six different flowers I glued them onto the wreath, added a ribbon for hanging and was done! It took about 30mins. start to finish!



Hope you enjoyed the tutorial, Have an awesome day!

1 comment:

  1. Welcome to blogging! I just love all your great DIY projects! I love to create for less as well! I'm your newest follower!
    Come on by sometime! I have a weekly link party called Terrific Under Ten Tuesdays. It's for projects made for $10 or less! I would love to have you link up sometime!

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