Runaway October

Today we’re going to make this:

Well, you don’t have to but I’m going to pre­tend that you’re dying for me to teach you how to make this sim­ple wreath. Ready?

Gather your materials:

A wreath form– I used a 12″ press­board form, mainly because I had no final idea of what I was mak­ing and because they’re so much cheaper than styrofoam.

2 — 3 yds of wire-edged ribbon.

3 — 4 St Patrick’s day dec­o­ra­tive thingys. I think they call them flo­ral picks?

A Glue Gun and glue sticks — low temp is prob­a­bly best if you have one.

Scis­sors

What­ever doo­dads you want to add. Here I used mini “beer bot­tles” and some fake gold coins. Because what bet­ter sums up St Pats like beer and bling?

Okay, first step. Unroll your rib­bon and fold it in a zigzag pat­tern, kinda like so. Adjust it to make sure it will cover your whole wreath form.

It should like sorta like this from the front.

Now start to glue it to your wreath form. Tuck the end under for the first fold. You’ll have to adjust here and there to fol­low the con­tours. I found it eas­i­est to glue the bot­tom fold to the wreath and leave the top fold loose. If you look closely, you can see my glue marks here.

Con­tinue around until you’re within one fold from the end.

Now guage how much rib­bon you will need to tuck under the first fold and cut it there. Glue the end of the rib­bon UNDER the begin­ning fold and glue in place. Yours should look some­thing like this.

Now flip that sucker over. This is where you pull your flo­ral pick thin­gies apart. Mine con­sisted of wired pieces and well, non wired pieces. I cut the wired pieces out of 3 picks and glued it in inter­vals around the back of the wreath. I chose to do a spi­raly type pattern.

Then go back around and add the non-wired pieces.

Not enough bling, Katie. Go around and add more if necessary.

That’s bet­ter. Now flip it back over and add your doodads.

Once all my doo­dads were on, I used the green stem from my flo­ral pick thing and bent it into a hoop and glued it within an inch of its life to the back of the wreath. Just in case. I want my wreath to with­stand hur­ri­canes. Ta Da!

Now take down your Valen­tines Wreath that’s still up and put up your blingity-bling-bling St. Pats wreath.

Now every­one will know what you plan on doing next week. Wear­ing green under­wear, of course.

Speak­ing of the Valen­tines Wreath you hadn’t taken down, here’s mine. I used Tater­tots and Jello’s tuto­r­ial.

So… What are you plan­ning for St. Patricks Day this year? Any good recipes?

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