The day that I discovered how to make burlap wreaths changed my world! Now burlap wreaths are all I make and I’m always trying to figure out unique ones! I am especially fond of this wreath because I got the idea while brainstorming with hubby. Check out the tutorial on how I made this Valentine’s wreath for my door.
Supplies:
- Heart shaped wire form wreath
- 2 rolls of red burlap
- Burlap
- Dowel Rod
- Hot Glue Gun
- Twine
I followed the same steps to add the burlap to the wreath as the Americana Wreath Tutorial. First, tie a knot onto the wrong side of the wreath form and then for the ruffles, take the burlap and push the strand through the bars one at a time, eventually you’ll have three ruffles. I made the ruffle the height I wanted and made sure to repeat this same size throughout the wreath. Each bar to bar section has three rows of ruffles. If you run out of burlap just grab a new roll, tie and continue with the ruffles.
Once I finished adding the burlap I had worked with the ruffles so that the heart shape would be more predominant. I did this by tucking in parts of the ruffles into the the wreath form.
For the arrow, I already had a white dowel rod from the ribbon holder you can find at the craft store. It broke one day and as you all know I hate throwing things away because you never know what you may need for a craft. I liked it white because it popped on the red background of the wreath.
Originally I wanted to saw into the two ends of the dowel rod so that I could insert the arrowhead and tail to look more like an arrow, but I didn’t have a bandsaw and hand-sawing the slits proved to be hard because I didn’t think to line up the two sides. So I went with the original plan of gluing the arrowhead and tail to the dowel rod.
To make the arrowhead and tail I first modge podged the burlap piece like I did when I made the leaves on my Fall and Halloween Wreath and hung them to dry. Once they hardened I drew out the arrowhead and tail to the size I wanted on a piece of paper and cut that out to trace onto the burlap.
I cut out two of each and hot glued them together for more stability. After they dried I hot glued them to the dowel rod to make the arrow.
Then I placed the arrow onto my heart wreath exactly how I wanted and tied the two sides to the wreath with twine. I like to use twine because if I ever want to change up my wreath I can just cut it off and add something new without ruining the wreath or the accent piece with glue.
I love this wreath and hope you do too, please share a picture on our Facebook page if you make it!
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How do you do the burlap? I have looked and looked and can’t figure it out! It’s beautiful and I would love to do this one.
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Hi there! Click on the Americana Wreath Tutorial for more details, let me know if it doesn’t help 🙂 adding it here too Americana Wreath | Texas Craft House
https://texascrafthouse.com/2015/05/10/americana-wreath/
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Do you have a YouTube? I looked at your other tutorial and I still can’t seem to figure it out
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I don’t have a YouTube
does this link help https://texascrafthouse.com/2015/05/10/americana-wreath/
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Thanks for sharing. Your directions are very simply not complicated at all. I think I’m going to try to make one today. Thanks again for sharing.
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What size of burlap ribbon do you use? 4″, 5 1/2″, or 6″?
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Any of those sizes will work great! I used 4″ for this particular wreath because I preferred that variation of red. For the Americana wreath I used 5 1/2″.
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