I knew I didn't want to spend money designing a summer theme door decoration (plus I was struggling with what to do for "summer" without it being
beachy or something similar. After seeing a few
fabric wreaths on Pinterest, I knew I could do something similar with supplies I had on hand.
Each color has its own container which are stacked on my craft room Expedit unit:
For this project I had a wreath form I picked up at the dollar store (I knew it would come in handy) and I had my scraps. That was it! I was ready to go.
Unlike some of the other tutorials I read, I didn't want to iron, measure or rotary cut any of my fabric. I wanted to pull it out of the box, eyeball it for size and cut it.
It turns out that using this type of wreath was fortuitous because no matter how long the fabric remnants were, I was able to tie them on. The longer strips went all the way around the wreath, while the shorter pieces could be tied around the small branches:
I started by randomly placing my fabric strips around the wreath, trying not to get too many of the same pieces of fabric together
At this point I settled on using mainly yellow and green fabric, with a little blue. I did this because I mostly had strips in those colors (vs small squares or other shapes of scraps) It wasn't really a design choice, just laziness:
Once the wreath was pretty full, I tightly packed the knots together by sliding them along the wreath form. This left me gaps to add a few more strips in:
Finally the entire wreath form was covered, including the entire back:
I used pinking shears to cut the fabric down and the zig-zagged edge turned out cute:
I hung it on the door and thought it lacked something.
So once again, taking my
inspiration from Pinterest, I added a $1.99 monogram I picked up at Michael's:
A quick and easy project that will last me for the summer.
Total Cost: $2.99
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Cute and easy enough- a bit time consuming maybe---but easy enough that anyone could do it- xo Diana
ReplyDeleteThe wreath looks great on your grey door. I bet it would be STUNNING on a black front door! :)) Just kidding! :D
ReplyDeletePam
Great idea! I'm with you on not wanting to iron and rotary cut. Yours turned out great!
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Carrie
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You wreath looks so cute!! I love the look of the monogram too - that really finished it off!
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So glad I found your link on Tatertots and Jello. I love this idea to have on hand for those in-between holiday times.
ReplyDeleteTurned out beautifully!
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ReplyDeleteVery cute! Great idea for inbetween holidays and all year long to!
ReplyDeletecute way of using all the left over fabric scraps that I don't know what to do with.
ReplyDeletethis turned out darling. Thanks so much for linking up. I just wanted to let you know that I'm featuring this today feel free to stop by and grab a button. I can't wait to see what you have to share this week.
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Your wreath reminds me of one my grandmother made for Christmas one year from strips of red plastic bags tied around a coat hanger fashioned into a circle. She then attached pieces of hard candies wrapped in clear celophane all over and hung a pair of safety scissors from the center. She hung the wreath on the outside of her screen door (since it was all plastic it was impervious to the weather) and the mailman, the milkman and others would come by and clip off pieces of the candy during the holiday season.
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