How to make a Christmas Wreath
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To make a Christmas wreath you will need a wreath ring, florist wire (you can get these cheaply from our local florist) and some Fraser Fir Christmas Tree Greenery.
You can add other greenery such as Ivy, Pine, Holly and any other foliage with berries. Leaves, seedpods can customize your wreath.
To make the wreath
Bunch Fraser Fir tips into bunches and wire them to the wreath ring. You cut the tip to length and wrap the wire around the lower end of the foliage and then twist the wire around the wreath ring with another piece of wire. Repeat this procedure an inch or two further down the stem.
During the first round of the wreath the foliage will slide around a little bit but the more you put on the more stable it will become. Keep your work flat on a tabletop to prevent movement.
Much of building the wreath is to place your foliage to make something pleasing to the eye, with interest around the whole of the wreath.
However there are some general rules in making a wreath:
Use the inner and outer rings as separate ’rounds’ filling both rings makes a full plush wreath.
You will find that you can make rounds appear to have a direction. This is when the stems all lay the same way. Wreaths look best if a round follows the same direction. However, the two rings on the wreath ring don’t necessarily have to go in the same direction.
The more you add, the better it looks.
Save the unusually foliage until last so that they sit on the top layer of the wreath where they can be seen.
To add pine cones, wrap some wore around the bottom layer of the cone seeds, and twist the two wire stems firmly together and push the wire into the wreath and twist them together at the back of the wreath.
Then you can also buy a clamp machine 70 dollars at Kelco see link under fundraising. The wire is not used but clamps hold the Fraser Fir Tips onto the ring and then you can add the directions with wire.
