Wreath | thebarethreads

This is the felt Christmas Wreath I made for my mum. I gave it to her for her birthday because if I waited until Christmas it would be too late to put it up!

First I made a paper template of a holly leaf and then I cut out the leaves in green felt, in total I cut out 48. I then paired them up and sewed the pairs together, I filled them with toy stuffing and made 24 of the 3d leaves.

I then sewed 11 of them together in a rough circle, and another 11 inside as an inner circle. I added the last two at the bottom because wreaths always seem to have a couple sticking out of the bottom like that.

I then added the bow. I cut three strips of red felt and folded two into loops and attached them to the bottom of the wreath. I folded the third red strip into an upside v shape and sewed this all in place on the wreath.

I’m pleased with it, even though it did come out kinda lopsided.

So anyone else been making Christmas decs?

I love felt- expect a blog post dedicated entirely to this fuzzy fabric but until then have a look at my Autumn Wreath made from felt leaves in all different autumnal colours.

I started with felt in autumnal colours to mimic the changing colour of leaves in autumn.

I drew out some leaf templates in paper and then used these to cut out my felt. I tried to mix up the types of leaf and colour of felt which probably isn’t exactly how things roll in nature but I thought it would look better that way. When I cut out the leaves in felt I cut them in sets of two.

I pinned the leaves together in their sets and then hand sewed around the edges using red, green, and brown thread. Before I finished sewing them up and stuffed each one with toy stuffing to pad them out. I sewed up the hole, then sewed some of them up the middle to add a leafy detail.

This was the first batch of leaves I made, and I thought they were super cute although the orange ones are very orange! I then started arranging them in a circle to form the wreath, I pinned them at first then hand stitched a few stitches to join each leaf together.

Afterwards I decided that I needed another row of leaves to fill it out so I spent another few evenings sewing them up and added them to the inside. I also added two little green ones at the top as little extras! Not sure where I’m going to put this up yet but I like the idea of seasonal decorations.