How to Make a Flower Wreath/ Easy Wreath How To/ Wreath Tutorial/ Flower Wreath DIY

Hi everyone, I'm Christine from The Door Doctor and today we are going to

make

a cute, very quick and

easy

, very sparkly, rose gold mesh

flower

crown for this crown. I'm going to use an eight-inch Dollar Tree wire frame that I've already gone ahead and placed the number five plastic mesh that I just cut into a circle and zip-tied it to the center of the wire

wreath

frame that way we can apply

flower

petals all the way to the bottom and for this

wreath

we are going to

make

one, two, three, four rows of petals and this should make a wreath about 15 inches in diameter if you would like to increase the size to use a 12 inch wreath frame which should give you approximately a 20 inch diameter wreath and I've done this before. using a 16 inch wire wreath frame you obviously add more rows of petals to fill things out, but that gives you about a 24 inch diameter wreath if you use that size, so that will be our frame for the mesh what we're going to I'll be using this mesh cloth, it's a jute cloth mesh, I think that's how they label it.

This is from craftoutlet.com. It's a metallic mix of rose gold ombré and so you can see that it has a background like a creamy white and then it has rose gold, a little bit of silver and regular gold throughout and that gives a nice swirl design to the petals, so for the eight inch wire wreath frame you will need a roll of this mesh, obviously if you grow larger. I will need more when I make the larger flower with the 12 inch frame. I use two rolls of this mesh for the center. We are going to make this braided center with this is a complimentary rose gold metallic mesh and a foil mesh.

It's a 10. one inch wide mesh like Ombre mesh and this is going to be just a cute little

easy

flower centerpiece, you're going to need your glue gun for that and then of course my eight inch zip ties are what I use for make my petals. and lay out all my petals and then at the end we'll use just a little backing this is a flesh colored felt that I cut out in a circle to fit over the back of the wreath and then just another little pipe cleaner to use to hang the crown. We won't be using our wood stove today because I won't be using poly burlap like usual, we'll just use a rotary cutter to cut all of our mesh, so we'll take a short break and then we'll come back and start cutting our mesh.

Well, welcome back. I have my rose gold mesh here and I'm just going to use my rotary cutter and cut this into 10 inch squares. It's 10 inches. wide mesh I'm just going to get rid of a little bit of this extra and each roll will give you about, you know, 35 36 squares depending on how much you cut or how much you waste and as you can see I have a very loved cutting mat with a lot of marks to cut tights like this. I don't use the wood stove for this type of mesh mainly because it has all these little almost like little pieces of fabric that tend to burn if you use the wood stove and it doesn't really cut them, it just singes them, it doesn't really give a good edge, so rotary tool, okay, so let's cut like I said, this is going to take a full time. roll up and I already cut a bunch so let's do some more here and move on to making our petals this gives a lot of shine a lot of metallic shine on your cutting board so it's going to make a There's quite a mess of things okay , so for the petals we are going to make a daisy petal.

I've used this in some of my other

tutorial

s. This is really simple. I made a bunch of them. You are going to use zip. ties to close it. What I like about a petal like this is that you don't have to worry about it fraying because all the loose edges will be tucked away so you can see on the back that they are hidden and trimmed so you don't have to worry about dirty mesh and messy, so to make this petal you're going to take your 10 by 10 inch square and you're going to fold it into a triangle and I usually start, I mean.

I think I've gotten used to this mesh having this solid rose gold stripe along one of the cut ends or rather one of the sewn ends, so I keep it towards me as a habit, so I do that for every one of my petals, I fold them. in the same direction, so I'm going to keep that rose gold stripe towards my stomach. I'm going to take this corner down here, my bottom left corner, I'm going to take it to the top right corner and I'm going to bend it at its knee to form the Triangle like I can and then you're going to bring this together somewhere along the midpoint of this triangle. so you don't fold it along the folded seam so you don't wrinkle the air and gather it there, don't gather it along these triangular sides, but you're going to go through the middle section of the triangle from one end to the next, it looks like kind of like wings, this is what it should look like and then you're going to take each of these loose ends here and here and throw them out.

In the center, where you've already pinched some of the mesh, there's one that takes a little practice because you want to get as many loose ends into these little corners as possible, but there you have it, so shape it. a little bit and then I'm going to use my flange just to close it, get rid of the flange and I usually like to round it off a little bit, it's kind of curved up, it's almost like it's shaped like a little bowl. Alright, let's do a couple more, so again I keep my rose gold stripe facing me in the bottom left corner, bring it to the top right corner, make a nice triangle, keep all the edges together and then we'll meet in the middle one's. end to the next one or the opposite end sorry, so let's take these two loose edges, grab them and bring them to the center where you started pinching the whole mesh, there we go, making sure that your little loose edges are tucked in a little bit.

Overseas, I think I used 35 to 36 petals, so as I mentioned, one full roll of this mesh we'll make four rows of petals and when you make them, you'll just overlap them a little bit with the one next to them. and that tends to give a nice, I don't know, it's almost like a little swirl design, it's a simple mesh, but when you place it that way, it really gives it a lot of movement. One more, we'll do a couple more. bring that side in, shape this side, make it nice and round, there's a flange. I usually like to make sure everything is tucked in before I give that zip tie one last squeeze.

I'm going to make our triangle meet along the in the middle, bring the right side in, bring the left side in, pinch it and zip tie it, shape it a little bit, so that there are five of our petals left and then , usually let me grab my cutting tool here. I usually like to wear this cute multi. Trimming tool I bought on Amazon to trim off all this extra stuff, so anything under this flange you're going to remove, so make it nice and clean. My tool is getting a little dull, but they are very sharp. when you buy them, so be careful and it kind of makes quick work of cutting out all that mesh, so now let's move on to making row one of this wreath, so the eight inch wreath frame already You know most of the time when I use this size. frame for flower I'm using this second row for my first row of petals, but for this particular flower I use the outer row that it gives me just so it can give me a little bit more diameter in the crown, you know, I think it's a little bit too much little ones if I put them on that second wire, uh, wire, wire edge and if I take them outside I get a nice 15 to 16 inch flower and I can add four rows of petals pretty well and the other thing I do for this flower is , I actually turn it over, you know, most of these wire frames you can see they kind of go, go, go, they curve down like this, so most of the time I use it with this side up, but for some reason.

We've adapted to flip this almost like a little concave shape, like a little bowl shape, and use it this way to be the front of the flower and we're going to use this outer metal edge for the petals and so on. they just lift up a little bit, so you know this is a full roll of mesh for all of these petals. The outer row, you know, each one has three sections total in this wreath frame, so we're going to put four to five petals in each section, so about 14 15 petals really depends on how tight you want to place them, so we'll use our zip tie on that piece of outer wire and apply our first petal.

The other thing I like to do is When you attach the first petal with a zip tie, what drives me crazy is you can see it goes to the side, it's not perfectly perpendicular to the frame like a petal might be, so what I'll do is use two. I tie each of these petals together on the outer row and place one in one direction and then another in the opposite direction. I'm going to put number two and just doing that straightens the petal, so you use extra zip ties, but they give you a little more strength and they are well oriented and perpendicular to your frame.

Now we're going to work around it so that flange one goes in that direction and flange two goes inward. in the other direction, leave it and I'm just going to overlap them a little bit on the right, number three, so for each petal you'll end up using three zip ties, at least for this outer row you won't need the additional zip ties once you move towards the middle of the marco, okay, come a little bit closer, stop and pause and look, I'm just going to overlap each petal a little bit more, slide that guy over there and then we'll do number five. and of course, while I'm doing this, they're mowing the grass outside at my neighbor's house, so you'll probably hear lawn mowers, but what are you going to do?

This is life. I could cut these zip ties. I'll show you our progress and probably what I'll do is take a short break to complete the rest of this row, so that's the first five, you can see how they're attached to that outer frame with two different criss-cross ties, so finish the row. one. I think I'm going to end up using another 10 flower petals and then we'll come back for row two. Okay, now we've finished row number one and as you can see, I managed to get 15 petals in there and they're all slightly overlapping. The petal next to them, okay, now we're going to move on to row two of four and row two, you're only going to need one zip tie per petal and I'm going to place the next row right along this edge where my mesh starts. and I imagine I'll get about eight petals, eight to ten sometimes, depending on the size of the petals or how tightly I want them to touch or how close I want them to touch, so I'll come in here right along the last one. row of my mesh and I will apply petal number one.

You don't need the two zip ties because the plastic mesh grid keeps all those petals nice and straight. So the way I usually do row two is I like to have all my petals pretty evenly dispersed around the circle and the way to do it at least for me is to divide this circle into quadrants almost like you know a clock face and So if it's 12 o'clock, I'm going to put another petal directly on it at six o'clock, then one at three o'clock and another one at nine o'clock and then I'll fill the space between um.

However, as I said this out loud I realized that my kids, who no longer wear watches with dials (they prefer everything to be digital), probably wouldn't immediately understand where 12 o'clock, six o'clock, three o'clock and nine o'clock. The clock is, but I think most of you would, so let's look at 12, there's six. I'll do one here or I'll say the north, southeast, and west location for the petals that you always understand. Here's number three, that guy sure looks the part. straight and then number four and I'll have to step back and decide how many petals I think I can fit in there.

You want them to overlap but you don't want them to be too tight, so here are my first four. I'm going to take a look here, so really the question is do I want to put one or two. I think one, so you have your first four petals and now we're going to fill these different spaces with just one petal. spaced evenly, so there will be a total of eight petals in this row. There is the number five. Go this way. The number six. The number seven. This is a very nice mesh. I like rose gold, but they have it at craftoutlet.com, which is where I got this. mesh I don't think I mentioned that they have a plain gold one that's really pretty they have pink and red ombre mesh they have a blue one that I haven't worn yet I think you could do almost anything with this number eight Well, that was a pretty quick row.

I got rid of my zip ties here and then once you've got them all on, you just need to make sure that they all overlap the same way, so I usually go counterclockwise and make sure that each a. one looks good slightly overlaps the one next to it, so one side up one side down one side up one side down one side up one side down is tucked in well so you can see how each one it overlaps a little bit on the circle and I'm going to turn it around so you can see where row two is right along the edge okay now let's do number threeand row three of number three will be like row two, just a little bit closer to the center I'm also going to make eight petals for this one and the final row, the center row will be six, so you should have 14 more petals ready for work, and for this one I don't really measure here. just kind of an eyeball where I'm going to place the next row and I usually place my zip tie right inside where the tip of this petal cuts the cut edge of the petal ends so right there, if you can see it, just place it there and I'm going to make a reflected image.

In fact, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to offset this a little bit because I don't want the petals to perfectly overlap the previous row, so we'll do the same quadrant, but we'll start a little to the side. I'm filling this space here, yeah, that's better, here's a number. two will be directly in front of it and we'll make three here, so again like a clock face 12 o'clock six o'clock three o'clock nine o'clock number three number four foreigner first four okay and now we're just going to fill those spaces again. with four more petals.

This is a fairly quick wreath to make due to its size. I also like the larger size. I made this using a 16 inch frame and a 24 inch frame that I can't remember. how many rows of petals I think it was six six rows of petals seven rows of petals it was beautiful, very bright, it's one of my favorites, but it's probably one of the simplest to put together, you know, simple in design, just a mesh, fast, little. Braided center, just make sure you place this petal in the right direction, that's seven and then eight. Oops, a little bit of my mesh sticking out every now and then, a strand of aluminum foil will make its way through. get those zip ties out of the way so you can see this well, so we have 115 petals in row two and three, eight and eight and now we're going to very tightly place the last row right in this little center circle here and It's going to be six petals, and The nice thing is that this mesh is quite thin, so it allows you to pack them very tight this way, it's not too bulky, you can zip tie on top of each petal and it will be Well, so for this I make two types of north and south, but not east and west.

I will put two in front of each other so that there is petal number one. So petal number one I'll have petal number two directly in front of it, stop for a second. So this is the pedal, one petal two and then I'll put two on each side. I'm going to have to turn around just to see where I'm going here we go, pillow number three, turn it over here, that guy over there I'll show you. You're at the end where all the zip ties ended up placed, so these last six are pretty tight. As a result, you don't need a very large flower arrangement, you won't fit one, but we'll show you. this cute little braided center with the rose gold mesh, the solid metallic mesh, a really nice and simple finishing touch, so let's see, come back here, there's number five, okay, and number six, let's see if we can find it, here we go, my mesh is cooperating with me today look. on that number six, cut the bridle out of the way, let me get them all in the right way, get that guy under a couple of little strands that are sticking out, shape the petals a little bit, even though you want to be gentle with them.

I don't want to take them off the bridle and there we go, so that's the body of your crown, nice and shiny. I love it. I'll turn it around here and see if I can show you the middle for that middle row. Six petals nicely placed, the second row, say about an inch behind the middle row, has eight petals. The third row here along the edge of the mesh, another eight and then the initial 15 petals on that outer edge, okay, so I'm there. I'm going to put this aside. I'm going to take a short break. I'll turn on my glue gun.

Then we will make the center of the flower and we will be finished. Welcome again. Now we are going to finish our wreath with our Rose Gold Metallic Braided Center and my original intention was to try to show you how I braided this piece of mesh for the center, but this mesh is very difficult to work with, sometimes it tends to get caught on each piece or in each one. The thread catches on the one next to it so I usually attach it to a nail hanging from my door that I hang things on and I usually braid it standing up so I went ahead and braided it and now we're going to come. back and glue it on, but to make this it's just a simple braid, so I made three or cut three pieces of the rose gold mesh for this little crown here, each piece should be three feet long, so you'll have three strands . feet long.

I usually put all three together. I fold the mesh almost accordion style on one end, like this, and attach the three pieces using a zip tie and then again I hang them somewhere and usually braid them and then put a zip tie on the other end and then you'll have a nice little nice shiny piece of braided mesh for the center of your wreath and we'll just gun glue it on so I'll try to show it to you. move some of this stuff out of the way hopefully my glue gun will be nice and warm and I have to keep my finger protectors close so I really like to have the center really tight so I usually like to wrap it in a nice and small almost like a little knot before you start gluing and then you'll just go along the inside glue and hold another glue stick there pretty easy, watch your fingers.

I always lose track of the glue while doing this and melt my fingers together, just hold it nice and tight, it should dry as you go, you will see the little flange will be the end of the flange that would be in the center, everything will be hidden in the back for the larger wreath if you are going to To make a 12 inch frame, I typically make each of these pieces of mesh four feet and four feet long. We're going to give it a little bit more length because the crown itself allows me to bring this back here, there's not a lot of space in the middle, so this fits nicely into that little it's almost like a little cup area, okay, it's almost done and really at the end here I just like to wrap this around the back and glue it to the side of the other flange so this was the original. flange on one end and then this is just going to be gathered back.

I'll have to hold it a little to make it stay. I'm just going to hold this up and I'm going to cut off a lot of this extra mesh that's sticking out. in the end I'm very generous with my glue at this point, you don't want this to fall apart and then when it dries, I want to cut too much off a little bit of this extra mesh, yeah, a lot of little strands, let's just trim them better. and there I think we're starting to solidify the glue, I make a little bit more glue just to keep these ends from sticking out the side here and I use the table to my advantage here and then once this is all done, I just like I just like to make a loop with a zip tie, not a zip tie, and a pipe cleaner through part of the mesh on each side of this braided center, so I'll just do it on one side and then go to the next and add a little bit of glue. that too, let's see if I can do that and hold the crown at the same time.

I'll show you a little closer once I have it there, so I just loop through a few squares on one end and then a little more. a few squares on the other end if I can find a favorable spot here that hasn't been glued on, my goodness, we're not cooperating, come on, there, go, let's see, okay, my finger, all stuck on, stuck on here, I'll take it out and I will do it again sometimes. I wove this a little too tight, there we go, so you're just going to weave it in and out of the mesh.

I added a spot of glue on top of that, so I placed this pipe cleaner a little bit off center, which I don't really like, but for now it will have to do, we're just going to thread this into the center of our wreath, then we should be done, put that guy right in the middle, okay, stick that guy in there and there, make sure it's nice and centered and that's it, then you're just going to add a matching flange or a flange pipe cleaner to the back to hang it up and then I'll I like to zip tie a nice piece of felt to the back, just a couple of zip ties around the outside perimeter so you don't scratch the door and there it is, it's very pretty.

I like it, it's nice and bright. It will look happy on your door, so I hope you enjoyed this one. I'll be back next week if you like what I do, subscribe so you can see more videos. Have a good day.