Changeable Seasonal Wreath

One of my first Pinterest discoveries was this wreath.  It's simply burlap strips wrapped around a styrofoam form.  Three loops are placed on the wreath for you to connect different decor to it, so you can change it throughout the year!  Genius idea.  (My input on her tutorial is that painting the form black is an unnecessary step - white is fine!)  

I have a new love for felt flowers. My first wreath was for the spring.  Tutorial for the spring pom pom flowers.  These flowers were really easy and all you need is felt, something round for tracing, scissors, and a hot glue gun.

I switched up the flowers over the summer for the 4th of July!  These flowers were prettier, made a bigger statement, and were a really big hit.  They were also very easy.  Same materials required.  Tutorial here.  The only thing I did differently was hot glue these little gems in the center instead of a button.

I'm so excited that it's fall. I absolutely love fall decorations.  Maybe even a tiny bit more than I love Christmas decorations!  Here's my fall wreath and  Here's my inspiration blog.  I did change a few more things on these!  See below.

First of all I needed bigger flowers than this tutorial made.  So using a 12 inch long piece of felt, I drew out 4 big petals - roughly 1 3/4 inch high and 3in wide.  

I found it easiest to line the top of the petals with the ruler and to mark the width of them about halfway up from the bottom.  This got me the most evenly shaped petals.  Do slightly less than 3in to get the nice slopes on each end, you can see my dot is just shy of reaching the 9in mark on the ruler.  See my random dot in the middle there?  Am I really confusing you yet?  I am not skilled enough to cut evenly without a line so I draw it all out with a pen.  To avoid the pen marks on your flower, just cut right below the line.

To do the center part I used the same system but made them about 1 1/2 inches in both height and width and I used the shorter end of my felt sheet, so only about 8 inches long. 

  
If you don't have any sewing skills like me then the next part is tricky. If you have needle and thread skills then this next part is cake.  Weave your near matching colored thread in and out along the bottom.  Keep it pulled tight and then stitch together the ends so that it becomes a circle and completes your flower!  You really want the smaller piece pulled together tight so you have somewhere to stick your button or whatever you want to put in the middle.  If you have no needle and thread skills like me, I found it easiest to use a doubled up piece of thread that was only a little longer than the piece of felt I was working on.  Don't make it too long or it will become a knotted nightmare.

Weaving the thread, but keep it scrunched up tighter than this!

After you make your big petals and your smaller petals, you can either stitch them together or use hot glue like I did.  I want to use needle and thread as little as possible.  Here are the three pieces you'll be putting together.  Notice how a hole in the middle of the the larger flower is fine, but you want to minimize it as much as possible in the smaller flower that will be on top.  Just keep stitching it up like crazy!  It can be a mess, just cover up your crazy stitches with a cute button!  

To finish it, hot glue or stitch a clip onto the back that you can clip onto your wreath.  Using clips lets you move them around easily and put them on whatever you want!