Spring Wreath Tutorial

It’s Spring and the birthday wreath has finally gone from my front door, for a short while at least. But I am in mourning for it. So I made a festive replacement, as it didn’t feel appropriate to be putting up The Easter Bunny Wreath just yet.

Last week, when I was in Paperchase, I saw these dear napkins with felt hen confetti sitting next to it. So whilst the Dimpled Assassin, who was under the weather, tried to sleep off her bug, LBG and I got busy crafting. Here’s how we made our Spring Wreath.

I didn’t have any polystyrene wreath forms to hand, or their more green equivalents, so had to make our own. I cut a square of wadding larger than the wire wreath form I was using, then from the centre, cut diagonally outwards until I reached the inner edge of the wreath. I tucked the resulting triangles under the far edge of the wreath, thus hooking the wadding to the wreath.

Once that was done, I tucked the outer wadding edges inward and bound the entire thing in a spring-like yellow crepe paper.

Next I got my glamorous assistant to fold the napkins in half, with the cut edges making a point.

These we secured on the rear of the wreath with sticky tape. We did this most of the way round the wreath, when we ran out of napkins.

Then she stuck on lots and lots of hens.

Then I dolled it up a bit with some curling ribbon and hung it on the front door. LBG sang ‘Spring is here’ from that well-known episode of Charlie and Lola (when she gets the hiccups.)