How to Make an Autumn Wreath

how to make an autumn wreathHanging my autumn bunting up on the front of my house seems to have brought about a change in the weather. It is most definitely autumn now. Wet, cold and windy means warm socks, boots, coats and hot chocolate, not to mention looking at beautiful autumns, mostly in America, on Pinterest. Yay!

Autumn also means that my floral, summery wreath needs to go into storageย upstairs to be replaced by an autumn wreath.

I’ve seen lots of beautiful wreaths on Pinterest ( I’ve got a board of them here) but I decided to make another ruffle rag wreath and to add pine cones and other natural autumnal stuff.

How to Make an Autumn Wreath

After making the bunting, I had lots of little bits of fabric left over in beautiful autumn colours. I cut them into slightly shorter strips this time, about 10 cm longย and 2 cm wide.

To make the ring, I cut a pieceย of garden wire long enough to bend intoย 3 circles 20 cm in diameter. I used electrical tape to hold it in four places.how to make an autumn wreath

I took one of my pile of strips and began tying them onto the wire ring at regular intervals.how to make an autumn wreathhow to make an autumn wreathhow to make an autumn wreath Once I had tied them all on, I started with the second pile. I tied those on in the spaces. Then I started with the third pile, until I had used up all the strips and they were all close together with no spaces.how to make an autumn wreath
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Next I put 3ย pine cones each onto a lengthย of florists’ wire and tied some ribbon in a bow around each wire. how to make an autumn wreathThen I tied the wires together with some more ribbon.how to make an autumn wreath

Using the wire, I attached the pine cones and the ribbon to the bottom of the wreath.how to make an autumn wreath

Here is the finished wreath!how to make an autumn wreath

The shorter strips definitely worked better than the longer ones I used to make my spring wreath.

I had planned to put lots of berries, pine cones and autumn leaves on the wreath, but I was very happy with how it looked without them!

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