A Few Polka Dots, A Lotta Pearls, Burlap, Flowers, and Some Luck!

I'm so excited to post this wreath tutorial. 

I had a lot of fun making it! 

Not into green or St. Patty's Day? It's cool, because this wreath is interchangeable. YESSS! 

I attached everything (except for the pearl sprig) with velcro or pins so you can switch it out with whatever you want!
(I did not come up with that idea. I've seen it in a few places. Here's one. This is just my version!)

But really, let's get serious. Who doesn't love St. Patrick's Day? 

Leprechauns, pots of gold, green (which is a super great color), red-heads, rainbows, and, of course, green beer. 

Can you tell I'm excited?

Now on to the wreath.

Step 1: Gather your materials

Materials Needed: Straw wreath (I got mine for half off at Hobby Lobby!), various fabrics (I used different patterns of green, some white knit, green felt, and white canvas), burlap, pearls, pearl sprigs, scissors, floral wire, fabric glue (like Liquid Stitch), wire cutters, pins, and a hot glue gun (not pictured).

Step 2: Wrap your straw wreath with burlap strips.

Cut burlap fabric into 4-6 inch strips. Hot glue each piece on, wrapping and layering them around the wreath. Be sure to layer the strips evenly.

Step 3: Make some great flowers

Here are some of the different types of flowers I used.

 The scrappy no-sew flower was an experiment that turned out kinda cute. I burned myself a few times, but I didn't have to get up from my seat (see below) to go to my sewing machine and sew it so score! Flower tutorials post to come.

My advice would be to have a trash can nearby to collect all scraps and straighten and clean as you go or else you'll get this mess with a tiny spot for your butt. :)

Step 4: Attach flowers to wreath.

I wanted to make the flowers interchangeable so I glued Velcro to the backs of all the flowers and to the burlap where the flowers were going to go. (I didn't realize until I was putting the bunting on that I could have pinned these on instead and it would have been faster. However, I think the Velcro will be more secure.) I hot glued my Velcro because sometimes the sticky isn't as sticky as needed. 

If you put the velcro on the backs of the flowers and then arrange them, they'll kinda stick to the burlap so you can get a good idea where you want all the flowers to fit. 

As you get towards the top, glue on your pearl sprig. I glued on scraps of burlap on top of the sprig for extra security. My sprigs came with two branches so I bought two of them and cut one branch off of one and wired it to a full sprig to make a 3 branch sprig.

Step 5: Create Lucky Bunting

Cut out needed pieces: 5 ovals of burlap, 5 ovals of fabric slightly smaller than burlap, 5 triangles for bunting flags, and letters. I free-hand cut my letters from green fabric. No Silhouette for this girl yet (boo).

Then glue your pieces together with fabric glue.

Yay. 

I used the ribbon I planned on hanging the wreath with for this part, too. Partly because it matched, and mostly because it's what I had. Press it in half. I just eyeballed how much ribbon I'd need by holding it up to where I wanted it to go on the wreath. 

Stick the bunting flags inside the folded ribbon and pin.

Sew along the edge of the ribbon's edge with a 1/8" seam. 

Done with that part!

Pin in place. 

Fold more ribbon in half and press. Use it to tie bows. Glue the tails together with fabric glue.

Stick a pin through the back of your bow and pin it to the wreath. 

Do this on both sides and your bunting is done!

Here's my wreath hanging! Sorry about the lighting (it was rainy that day so no outside pics). 

Step 6: Attach ribbon for hanging

So remember when I hung my framed yarn and lace heart wreath on my corner hutch because I couldn't figure out how to hang it with ribbon on my door. I thought of a great trick:

Put your wreath hanger on the wreath like normal. Wrap the ribbon around it like you would but over the hook of the hanger.

Just so the ribbon won't slip, I added a tiny dot of hot glue on the back of the hanger.
Voila. Beautiful.

I love it. I don't have any flowers to exchange yet, but I plan to make some and use it as a spring wreath! Two in one! 

Enjoy! 

And Happy St. Patty's Day!

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