Make a mini springtime Easter wreath
Published on March 23, 2017 By Christine Leech
These wreaths are beautiful mini decorations, perfect for your Easter parties or just to brighten up your walls until Spring finally decides to make an appearance!
Materials
- Rico Felt Sheets 30x45
- Wendy Air
- A few balls in various shades
- Rico Essentials Crochet
- A fork
- Needle and thread
- Embroidery hoops in various sizes – I’ve used 13cm, 17cm and 21cm
If you don’t want to use embroidery hoops for the wreath you could buy small twisted willow ones or make ones from wool-wrapped wire coat hangers. Using super-soft wool like angora or mohair means your pom poms become amazingly soft little balls of fluff!
Making the pom poms
1
Take a length of thread and place it between the middle tines of the fork.
2
Begin wrapping the mohair wool around the fork.
To make it easier wrap several strands at once.
3
When you have made quite a thick bundle of wool take the two ends of the cotton, pull tight around the bundle and tie a knot.
4
Slip the bundle from the fork and wrap the cotton around the bundle again, pull tight and then tie a double knot.
5
With scissors cut the two sides of the bundle releasing all the strands of wool.
6
Trim the pom pom till it is nice and spherical.
7
Make lots more 'poms!
You can alter the size of them by wrapping more or less wool around the fork.
Making the flowers
1
Cut a piece of felt 2cm x 8cm then concertina it into five.
2
Holding it between your thumb and forefinger cut an arc across the top edge, making sure you don’t cut completely through the folds of the felt.
3
Unfold the felt and if necessary trim the arcs so they are neater and more petal shaped.
4
With a needle and thread sew a running stitch along the straight edge.
5
Pull the two ends of the thread to gather the felt into a flower shape.
Tie a double knot to secure.
Do not cut the thread yet.
6
To make the middle of the flower, cut a 1.5 x 5cm rectangle of felt in a contrasting color, then snip into a fringe.
7
Roll up and fan out the fringe.
8
Poke the roll of felt into the middle of the flower, secure in place with a few stitches.
9
Make more flowers in different colors and sizes!
Making the buds and leaves
1
Cut a length of felt 2.5cm x 6cm, cut a series of curved fronds – they can all be a little bit different so don’t worry if they’re a bit wobbly wobbly!
2
Roll up the felt and secure with a couple of stitches.
3
Stitch through all layers of felt to make sure the middle doesn’t spiral out.
4
Cut several different leaf shapes from a variety of greens, stitch through the middle of the base of the leaves to create shape.
5
Stitch a few leaves together.
6
Make several different clusters of flowers and leaves.
Constructing the wreaths
1
Take one of the embroidery hoops and using a glue gun fix the pom poms and then flowers in place.
Pro Tip
The wreaths look lovely both with flowers and pom poms covering the whole wreath or just places in specific spots.
