I found this wreath (here) and thought it looked super cool! I am a little worried it's not weather resistant enough for this house (we display our wreaths on the front door and rain and snow always make it under our porch) because it's made of paper but I thought I'd give it a try anyway. I guess I'll find out what happens today because it's storming like crazy here!
The website suggested doing this wreath in sections, rather than trying to do the whole thing in one afternoon. I wish I had listened because I got an awful blister just from cutting out all the leaves! Plus, I chose to do the overnight method of soaking them and leaving them out to dry so I wouldn't have finished in one day anyway.
I will also mention that rather than pinning the beginning of the yarn down, I just used painter's tape (I would've used masking but in this house, painter's is more readily available) and then it gets covered up by the yarn anyway. I'm not quite sure how to finish off the yarn because David did that for me. I believe it did some fancy tucking it under method. (If you were interested in knowing, I could find out for you. Just leave me a comment).
The pins also really hurt your hands to push into the wreath so I recommend using a thimble (which I had remembered this trick sooner).
The brown ink was really hard to find (I ended up borrowing some because I couldn't find it in stores) and I'm not sure mine really turned out how they originally intended it to anyway. Mine leaves looked more dirty than anything. Also, because they called for a 10 inch wreath and all I could find was a 12 inch, I didn't make enough leaves. They were really tedious and I didn't want to make more so for the last little bit, we decided to use ribbon instead. Plus, this works out nicely for hanging it.
I think it turned out really cute but I do wonder how many falls it will last before I'll have to look for something heartier but here it is!
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