3709: My rag wreath.

I’m ~~obsessed with~~ into black birds for my décor this fall. I have them everywhere.. seriously.

No, I’m not finished with everything. You catch my drift though, right? Smile

So of course when I was ready to make a wreath the obvious thing to do would be make something black bird inspired. I thought of feathers, but I really wanted something even a little messier. A rag wreath it was.

Frugal as I am, I went around gathering supplies in my house. I started out with a plan to reuse a wreath form, but it was too pretty as it was and I really didn’t want to take it apart.

So, I let go of the idea for a little while and did some of my “wife duties”… dishes and laundry.

LIGHTBULB!!

I didn’t have something round to use, but I DID have something that bends easily.

That’s right. A metal coat hanger. I have a billion pushed into a corner of our closet because I refuse to hang clothes on them, and they were all the hubs used prior to marriage.

I straightened it out, THEN started bending it in until I had a circle-y shape.

I later found out with a rag wreath, it doesn’t have to be perfect- you will still have the same effect.

I used my pinking shears to cut a trillion 1” x 7” strips of fabric.

Please ignore my awful craft table. Painting it is on my to-do list.

I tied the fabric strips on the coat hanger with double knots just to thicken it up some.

Cute right? I devised a plan to put our last initial on it using this method. Usually I paint everything that isn’t furniture black. I don’t think a black letter on a black wreath would be very interesting to the eye, so I went for the opposite end of the spectrum.

I did, however paint it black. Except this time, when the last coat was applied, I sprinkled GOLD craft glitter on it. Now when the sun hits it just right, people a mile down the street can see it!