Super easy yarn and felt fall wreath

Getting into the fall spirit!

I decided to make a yarn wrapped wreath. I love these. I used to make them for everything... I probably will start doing it again because, although my child is a little slice of heaven and smells like love, breastfeeding her gets really boring sometimes. Haha. Seriously. I'm also sick of reading the same Super Why book to my son and if my hands are full then I obviously can't read ( thank god for toddler logic).

Our house is starting to look pretty cute with all of the DIY decor. Best part is, Ive only spent about 10$ to decorate everything. I say that lightly though because in the long run I spent more like 40- 50$ for it, but pretty much everything I used for decor this year was just lying around. This includes the yarn I used for this project. Actually, the only thing I had to buy was the wreath itself. I probably could have made that part for free (from the field across the street) but I was a JoAnns buying diaper making things so I just picked up a wreath (for 2.99$). Pretty fantastic.

First I thought about doing a vine wreath but they costed more than I wanted to spend at the time. I just bought the hay wrapped in plastic wreath. I have used the foam ones before also (that you use for sticking flowers in, usually) but they cost more. I hear you can also go to home depot or lowes and buy some pipe insulation and tape it together with some duct tape. Very cheap and you could probably buy enough for a couple wreaths at a time and make it even less expensive. Another bonus is you would be able to make it any size you want. I will most likely do this next time since the JoAnns we live by has a VERY limited selection.

What you need:

Wreath-- of cour choice
Yarn-- i usually use about half of the regular sized yarn bundles from JoAnns
Felt
Scissors
hot glue gun
Optional:tape

What you do:

you take the yarn, hold your finger over the beginning of the yarn and begin wrapping, doubling over where the beginning of the yarn is. This keeps it in place. You could also tape it to make it easier. I have never taped mine though.

While wrapping your yarn, Inspect it to make sure you don't have any gaps. Just run a sting of yarn over the gaps. Super easy.

At the end, I just pul my last piece tight and stuff the end underneath another row of already wrapped yarn. It keeps it in place and Ive never had the need to tape or glue it down, though you could hot glue it, if you wish.

Next, the flowers. Take a square of felt and cut it in a circle.

Then cut the circle into a spiral. different widths make different flowers... i like to do various widths to make it look more artsy, i guess ha!

Take the inside most point of the felt spiral and just wrap it around itself. Continue this until its fully wrapped.

Glue the end onto the rest of the flower.

Now, put them together!

Figure out where you want them to go

Cover the bottom of the flower with glue

Press the flower onto the wreath.

Repeat

If you are using the plastic/foam wreath, be careful not to make your glue too hot and melt the plastic. I have never had an issue with this on this type of project because of the yarn, but I'm sure its possible, so just use caution!

Hang and enjoy!