Wreath-making 101
Let’s break down a simple way to make a wreath this holiday season! Follow these easy steps to create yourself some lovely and fragrant door swag.
Step 1: Foraging your materials
When foraging for a wreath, we want to consider greenery/berries/twigs/pinecones that will hold their needles, berries, etc for at least a couple of months.
Easily foraged greenery:
White pine
Fraser fir
Spruce of any kind
Juniper
Cedar
Easily foraged secondary wreath elements:
Privet berry (a blue berry from an invasive plant you can find all over nature walking paths, in your backyard, etc)
Pinecones
Funky twigs (curly willow, dogwoods, just a cool branch you found in the driveway)
Other fun elements that are easy to source:
Winterberry (I recommend checking out Sues Berry Patch in millersburg — she has a self-serve stand full of gorgeous winterberry)
Eucalyptus (fresh or dried)
Ribbon (for a lovely finishing touch)
Step 2: Gathering wreath-making materials
Let’s make sure we have all necessary supplies before we begin!
Grapevine wreath — You can find them at any craft store. They even have them at the dollar store last I checked. Grapevine wreaths are the easiest for novice wreath-makers, or those short on time. Personally, I prefer a grapevine wreath. They’re much less fiddly and you can choose how much wreath you’d like to leave bare.
Snips for trimming
Fishing line — fishing line isn’t necessary, you could use twine as well. Any string really. I used fishing line to tie on my bow as well as my pinecones.
Step 3: Tuck in your greenery
Use greenery of varying lengths to create dimension and flow in your wreath. Tuck the ends securely through the grapevine so they don’t budge. As I said before, you could stop when the wreath is 1/4 full or 1/2 full and still get a gorgeous look. It’s all up to you!
Step 4: Add your extras (berries, twigs, ribbon)
This is the fun part — decorate however you’d like! I chose to add privet and winterberry, eucalyptus, some pinecone, willow twigs, and a bow. I found a quick bow tutorial on a Youtube short that was easy (when I say easy I mean EASY — bows are not my forte).
