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Saturday, December 4, 2010

Round Up of Clever Seasonal Door Decor

Celebrate the season by creating wreaths
the reflect your creative passions

Continuing with the theme of unconventional handmade holiday decorations, explore these ideas for creative wreaths to adorn your home that reflect your love of fabric, yarn and other craft supplies.

Felt Holiday Wreath
Skill Level 1: No experience necessary
Crafting Time: 5 - 6 hours

Jo-Ann How-To: Felt Holiday Wreath

Supplies & Tools

  • Styrofoam™ brand wreath form
  • 8 green felt squares (3 shades)
  • 3 red felt squares
  • Thread
  • Needle
  • Ribbon
  • Scissors
  • Corsage pins, 1 box each: crystal head, pearl head
  • Optional: Rotary cutter & mat, pinking shears

Directions

Some pins may protrude at back of wreath. Trim or add padding to avoid scratching furniture.

  1. Cut each green felt square into four 2" x 12" pieces. Use a rotary cutter, scissors or pinking shears to expose either a smooth fold or the pinked edge, in each roll.
  2. Fold the felt in half lengthwise and roll into a coil. Gently push the center of the coil slightly upward from underneath. Secure the bottom of the roll with 2 stitches from left to right and 2 stitches from top to bottom, to squeeze the base together. Tie off thread, continue making rolls to cover the wreath.
  3. Make berries with red felt, using the same technique. Stitch, but do not squeeze the bottom together. Fit clusters of 3 berries into wreath, removing some green rolls if necessary. Secure each with 3 pearl headpins.
  4. Tie ribbon onto wreath. Cut 4 green leaves and another red roll. Stitch onto ribbon.

Christmas Wreath & Spheres
Skill Level 2: Some experience necessary
Crafting Time: 1 - 2 hours

Jo-Ann How-To: Christmas Wreath & Spheres

Supplies & Tools

Directions

Wreath

  1. Glue the end of the ribbon to the back of the wreath. Wrap the wreath, slightly overlapping each wrap to completely cover the wreath and glue end to secure.
  2. Tie a large multi-loop bow with long tails for the top of wreath and secure with glue. Loop the tails down the sides of the wreath, glue to secure.
  3. Glue the mini ornaments into the loops of the bow and tails.

Spheres

  1. Glue the end of a piece of ribbon to the center of the ball. Wrap around the ball and glue again, dividing the ball in half.
  2. Glue a second piece of ribbon in the opposite direction, dividing the ball into quarters.
  3. Glue strips of ribbon to fill in the four bare sections of the ball. Use thinner ribbons to frame the strips of ribbon for a cleaner look where the edges meet.

Flying Geese Wreath
Skill Level 1: No experience necessary
Crafting Time: 3 - 4 hours

Jo-Ann How-to: Flying Geese Wreath

Supplies & Tools

Directions

  1. Cut batting 3"x a total of at least 90". Wrap wire wreath.
  2. Cut 4 strips green fabric 4" wide. Press each strip in half lengthwise. Wrap wreath, overlapping raw edges.
  3. Cut fifteen 4" squares from each of the 5 green fabrics.
  4. Folded Flying Geese: fold and press square in half diagonally, then in half diagonally again. Press well. To insure an even edge, trim raw edge. Lay aside and continue until all pieces are folded and pressed.
  5. Beginning at bottom of wreath, glue triangles around wreath, spacing 1/2" apart.
  6. Glue buttons next to each other around center of wreath.
  7. Bow: Cut a strip of red fabric 6-1/2"x45". Fold in half lengthwise and cut each end at an angle. Sew edges using a 1/4" seam; leave center open for turning. Clip corners; turn right side out and press.
  8. To make bow fold in half, marking center; measure in from center 10" and sew. Bring center to sewing line and open tails out. Gather center by hand; pull tightly and secure.
  9. Cover center with matching scrap folded to 1"x3". Glue in place at bottom of wreath.

Furry Wreath
Skill Level 1: No experience necessary
Crafting Time: 2 hours

Jo-Ann How-To: Furry Wreath

Supplies & Tools

Directions

  1. Glue one end of yarn from one skein to back of wreath. Evenly wrap yarn around small section of wreath.
  2. When section is covered, cut the yarn and glue the end in place.
  3. Repeat with remaining colors of yarn until wreath is covered.

The holiday wreath is "ever green" but not pine. Check out Belinda's post over on The Happy Home for crafting a wreath from a recycled paperback book.

How-To at The Happy Home: Book-page Wreath

She went with a Stephen King novel but might we suggest something by Dickens—his ghosts are already in the Christmas spirit.

Find more ideas on handmade ways to make your Christmas merry, visit Joann.com/projects and be sure to share pictures of your creations in our Jo-Ann Fan Gallery on Facebook.

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