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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Red on December 09, 2011, 09:06:40 pm

Title: yule wreaths
Post by: Red on December 09, 2011, 09:06:40 pm

Can anyone advise were to bulk buy willow bases for making lots of yule wreaths from please???

Thanks

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: jaykay on December 09, 2011, 10:26:20 pm

I was searching too and found these:
Willow and vine circles and hearts (http://www.essentialscompany.co.uk/Festive%20Supplies/Christmas%20Wreaths.html)

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: Rich/Jan on December 11, 2011, 11:04:41 am

Hi - I used to get willow from a tree - bind it up in a circle - job done - then wrap around moss and ivy etc and decorate - bit cheaper perhaps.  Regards Jan

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: Red on December 11, 2011, 06:38:42 pm

Thanks great advice! I've just come back from our annual Victorian Christmas Market and people were selling wreaths for £15 and they looked rubbish! Will check out the website and will try making from scratch!

Thanks

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: YorkshireLass on December 11, 2011, 08:40:37 pm

I've made a small wreath around a Poundland one - about 6 inches diameter - if that helps?

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: colliewoman on December 16, 2011, 08:40:47 pm

i make my own but from hazel ;)

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: Blinkers on December 16, 2011, 10:36:30 pm

So far, I've got a bit of wire bent into a circle  ::) ::)........................... here's hoping i get time to add just a little SOMETHING to it before Christmas  ;D



   :merryxmas:

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: jaykay on December 20, 2011, 06:02:01 pm

Here's mine, made this afternoon when I was supposed to be clearing up  :D
It took less than an hour and all the stuff came from here - including the base, made from two circles of single-strand fence wire  ;D

(http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k70/jaykayg/d244043b.jpg)

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: Rosemary on December 20, 2011, 09:23:47 pm

Looks great :thumbsup:

My chum made us one form stuff foraged here at Dalmore. There's a photo in the diary.

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: ramblerskitchen on December 20, 2011, 09:25:13 pm

Wow, that looks really good

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Post by: Miss Piggy on December 20, 2011, 09:37:27 pm

thats fantastic, well done, Love it  :thumbsup: :thumbsup:Happy Christmas

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: jaykay on December 21, 2011, 04:57:27 am

Thank you  :) I like the one your friend made Rosemary  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 21, 2011, 10:35:04 pm

Jaykay that is lovely.  Wish I could do things like that.

Title: Re: yule wreaths
Post by: jaykay on December 21, 2011, 11:33:01 pm

Thank you  :) but a wreath is easy:

Make (or buy) a circle of wire or bendy twigs. If wire best to make two circles, one smaller than the other, and zigzag some spare wire between them to hold then together.

Get some moss and cover the frame with it - wrap string or thin wire over and over as you go, to hold it in place.

Gather lots of evergreens. Make little bunches or bouquets - 4-5" long if you want a neat wreath, 8" long if you want a shaggier one like mine  Wind wire round the stems to hold the bunch together, leaving two long tails of wire. Poke the tails through the moss, twist to secure at the back. Put the head of the next bunch over the stems of the first one and carry in til you've covered it all.

Fasten in bows, baubles, berries, apples (that's what i used), oranges or whatever with wire, to make it colourful.

It really is much more straightforward than you think   :)