felt garland - The Inspired Room

Do you remember my square felt garland from last year? Well, don’t faint at my craftiness, but I’ve reinvented it this year into something I love even more. Behold! A Winter Felt Wreath.

My garland was fun and pretty, but it was shorter than I wanted it to be so I wasn’t using it this year. Since I didn’t want to go buy more felt to make it longer (Ok, mostly I didn’t want to cut more squares) I decided it would be SO easy to turn it into a wreath.

I ran into Michaels Craft (here is a link to some Michaels coupons. You are welcome) to grab a wreath frame and some wire to attach it. I think I spent about three dollars on the additional items I needed to turn it into a wreath.

I love this wreath not only because of its soft fluffiness, because it was really easy to make. No fancy sewing, pinning, tucking, hot gluing, chain sawing or other dangerous activities needed.

The cutting of the squares took the longest, but that was mostly because I do not even own sewing scissors and I was trying to cut them with lame-o scissors. I didn’t cut the squares perfectly and I think that is what gives it a little more fluffy charm. If it was too perfect it wouldn’t look the same.

Attaching the garland to the frame took about two minutes.

Many of you asked (back when this was a garland how many squares I used). I tried to count them after I made the wreath, and to be honest, I gave up because it was too much trouble. But there are hundreds of squares.

How To Make a Felt Wreath

Gather lots of felt (you can use what whatever colors you want, I used a white, a cream and a taupe) and cut out hundreds of approximately 2 inch squares while you watch a twenty hour holiday movie marathon. Just kidding. It didn’t take that long. If you have sharp sewing scissors this will be super easy. Don’t obsess over the squares, they don’t have to be perfect.

Then you use white dental floss and a needle to string the squares together. Easy! Now you have the garland made!

Lay the garland around your wreath frame (I used this wood one). I put a ribbon around the wreath frame at this point just to make it ready to hang when I was all done. You could also hang it with a hook and no ribbon.

I took all of these photos at night so it looks a bit gloomy at my house, sorry. Why oh why does it have to get dark so early?

I started wiring it down in the middle of the garland. Use your floral craft wire (I used white) to secure the dental floss to the ring at a few points. Secure it in enough places that your wreath will stay round. You can tie it tight, so the felt smashes in a little bit.

Tie and trim the ends of the wire once you are all done tying it to the frame.

When you get to where you have the two ends of the garland, you can see how much felt you need to remove in order to make it fit nice and tight. Remove the excess squares and tie the two end of the floss together. Now secure that portion to the wreath frame.

I hung a bell on mine, but that is optional. You could remove it after Christmas or hang something else, or hang nothing at all.

Voila, you made a wreath. And it was easy!