Making a Burlap Wreath: A Step-by-Step Guide

When it comes to creating a beautiful burlap wreath, it's essential to understand that each piece is like evenly distributed and scrunched up. This scrunchiness is crucial in achieving the desired texture and appearance of the final product. The twist, as mentioned, sometimes results in losing some of this scrunch, so it's vital to keep that in mind when working with burlap.

As I began my project, I realized that I was running low on burlap ribbon. To compensate for this, I used a thinner, more compact version to achieve the desired width and fluffiness. The goal was to create a heart-shaped bow that would be easily distinguishable from other shapes. By using two pieces of ribbon, one thicker than the other, I could create a subtle contrast between the two.

The Bow-Making Process

To make my bow, I wanted to create six little loops with only two tails. This required some patience and attention to detail, as I folded each loop in half and then secured it with a bread tie. The figure-eight pattern was essential in creating the loops, but it also presented a challenge – the wire edge of the ribbon made it difficult to manipulate the loops without them falling apart.

To overcome this issue, I used hot glue to secure the center of the bow, covering up any visible edges or imperfections. By applying a small amount of glue and then folding over the excess ribbon, I was able to create a clean and defined shape that would hold its form. The result was six perfectly formed loops, each one carefully crafted to achieve the desired level of fluffiness.

Securing the Bow

With my bow complete, it was time to attach it to the wreath base. This involved cutting two tails at an angle, creating a more asymmetrical shape that would add visual interest to the final product. By folding over the excess ribbon and securing it with hot glue, I created a seamless joint that added to the overall appearance of the bow.

Assembling the Wreath

With my bow in place, I turned my attention to assembling the wreath itself. This involved carefully arranging the burlap pieces around the base, ensuring that each one was evenly spaced and scrunchy enough. By using a combination of hot glue and gentle manipulation, I was able to create a beautiful, textured surface that added depth and interest to the final product.

The Finished Product

After several hours of work, my burlap wreath was finally complete. While it may not be the most perfect or polished creation, I was thrilled with the result – a heart-shaped bow nestled comfortably in the center of a beautifully arranged burlap wreath. With a price tag of just $7, this DIY project was an affordable and accessible way to create a stunning decorative piece for my home.

Tips and Variations

For those who may be struggling with this tutorial or finding it too difficult, I recommend searching for alternative videos on YouTube that offer more detailed instructions and visual guidance. Additionally, consider using ribbon with a wire edge, as this will make it easier to manipulate the loops without them falling apart. With a little patience and practice, anyone can create their own beautiful burlap wreath – and at a fraction of the cost of buying one on Etsy.

Upcoming Tutorial: A Different Kind of Wreath

In my next tutorial, I'll be sharing a unique and creative approach to making a burlap wreath. With a focus on texture, color, and pattern, this project promises to deliver something truly special – so stay tuned for that upcoming video!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone so today I'm not actually gonna be on camera but I wanted to share with you this cute and very easy beginner level DIY for a burlap a wreath for Valentine's Day I've never made a burlap wreath before ever in my life never really like it was not really up my alley kind of style of wreaths but even though a burlap breathe really isn't at my style I decided I wanted to go ahead and try it and see and it wasn't until I found this hot pink satin ribbon that I thought that it would look amazing for Valentine's Day and yeah so I'm super excited to share this with you guys I hope it comes easy for you as well it was a little bit tricky to make sure each little poof was the same size so keep that in mind to make sure that when you are weaving your burlap through each of the little little holes in here you'll see what I'm talking about a minute but make sure every time that you weave that burlap through that it is about equal length and the fabric or in the burlap ribbon so I hope you guys enjoy this tutorial stay tuned for the list of materials and the steps on how to get this cute look and you guys I think this was about seven dollars so super excited for this and I can't wait to put it out my front door thanks for watching but the first thing I have here is my heart a wireframe I got this at Hobby Lobby for 247 but it was 40% off of that price so I'm gonna go ahead and take this tag off the next thing you're going to need is a burlap ribbon and I purchased this at Hobby Lobby as well $5.99 and it was 50% off so this was about three bucks and my dog is walking around and making a lot of noise and I do have two little twisty ties that I just took from my bread my bread things I don't know and but you can use pipe cleaners or anything that like will twist and turn and hold that makes any sense okay so now I am just gonna find a starting point and I think I'm gonna start right here on a straight line and then deal with the curves as I come back around so the first step that we're going to take is we're gonna take our burlap ribbon and we are going to fold it in half like this and then we're going to fold it in quarters like this and we're gonna loop this through the first string on the inside so we're going to feed it like this right here and then wrap it around to secure it to the first string so how I'm gonna do that is I am going to take some hot glue this is where you can use like pipe cleaners to secure but I'm just gonna use hot glue and make sure that I'm adding it to of the wire itself or else this will slide around and I'm gonna fold this over and make sure that the burlap is holding on to the wire where we just hot glued and now I'm just gonna kind of trim this excess I've never done this before I'm sure there is a much nicer easier prettier way to do this but this is the way I'm gonna do it next step is to feed the burlap through the first opening here so it doesn't have to be folded in two halves or quarters anymore and you feed it through the first slot and you kind of like pull it out maybe about this much and then depending on I guess on how like fluffy you want it to be and then we'll do the same thing and push it out through the second slot like this and now we're going to scrunch it together like this flip it around and we're going to twist the back okay and we hold on to the twist so I'm holding on to it with my thumb right here here's the twist and I'm holding on to it we're not going to secure it we're just twisting it and then we're gonna repeat that step all over again so I am going to feed this through the first section then my your you will find that this keeps like twisting with you so you can have to like unravel it and then so pull it out as much as fluffy as you want it to be and then feed it through the second slot and it's pretty secure so I can the twist is holding very well so I no longer really have to hold it and now I'm going to feed the second one through so now we're going to a bunch of that up again this turn it around be sure you don't pull down or else you're gonna pull out the little second layer here and we are going to twist I don't think the direction of the twist necessarily it matters I'm just going counterclockwise and now I'm going to feed through here again because this has a break right here there's another wire that's stopping this one from being with this little group right here I don't think I really need to twist in the back so I'm gonna go ahead and skip the twist step right there and just go ahead and feed through this first section like this and then I will feed through the second section and keep eyeballing it as you go along and make sure that everything seems to be equal you don't want one side to be fluffier than another section I'm not too worried about my starting point right here because I am going to scrunch it once I come back around so this sides gonna look a little bit bigger as you can see but once I come back around to see that it's gonna be pretty much even so just make sure that you're pulling about the same amount of burlap as you are you know for each little section that you're doing the hardest part about this is the trailing burlap that just sits there waiting to go through it just twists and turns and so you just have to keep like straightening it out but I have fed again both loops both ends are out on the first hole on the second hole now I am going to scrunch flip it around and twist I don't think the direction matters I'm gonna flip it back over and do it all over again see this just keeps twisting on me okay so my heart is complete I will say as a beginner it was not like the easiest thing to do I mean it's easy to feed it through the steps are easy but making sure that each piece is like evenly distributed and scrunched up and then you do the twist and when you do the twist sometimes you lose some of that scrunch so keep that in mind and I actually did run out of burlap or the same kind of burlap ribbon like I ran out of this so you would need about two of these but she wouldn't even use all of the second one and I had some of this on hand and it was a lot thinner than this one and so you can kind of see the difference here between this ribbon and this ribbon but it's okay because my bow is actually gonna go right here so you can't really see it but you can tell that it's like not the same amount of fluffiness but I did want it to be a little bit narrow and smaller on the tip so that you could tell it's a heart instead of it like looking like a weird shape up here so I did want there to be like this open space right here so that you could tell this was a heart so now we're going to move on to the bow and hopefully I can explain this in the easiest way possible so I want to make two four I think I want to make six loops and my boat I want my bow to have you know six little little bows okay but only two tails so I'm gonna pull enough here I'm gonna hold my finger up here cuz this is about the length of the tail that I want and I want to give myself a little bit more in case I need a cut at the end but this is where I'm gonna start to make my loops okay so this is my first tail so I folded it over and now I'm gonna go back so it's kind of like we're doing some figure eights okay do you see that and we're gonna make another loop so there is the second loop so we've actually have three loops so we have this loop right here the second and third loop and now we're going to figure eight back and now we've got four loops and now we need six so here's the fifth loop and now here is the sixth loop so after the sixth loop now you need enough for the tail for the other side so I'm just gonna do a rough cut so now I'm gonna scrunch this up in the middle and I'm gonna take one of my little bread ties it'll be a lot easier to work this way if I can have the center secured and then use my hands too okay so I've got the bread tie in the middle I want to sort of pull my loops apart from each other this would be a lot easier if you have ribbon with a wire edge because this is actually proving to be somewhat difficult and now we're going to try to do the other side okay so now I'll mess with the loops in a little bit but now we need to cover the center because you can see it a little bread tie so we're going to take a piece of the ribbon and cover up the center like this so I just need to cut up just a little bit so I'm actually going to fold this in half and take some hot glue apply to the center and then we are going to make sure it's nice and in half and then we're going to lay it over that hot glue and add some more hot glue I'm gonna go ahead and trim this because it's a little bit long and then fold it over and then this is gonna happen where glue is just gonna string everywhere so let's get our fries and then we will find our spot like this I mean you can put it wherever you'd like I mean I'm gonna put it to the left but to add my hot glue I'm going to cut the tails and I think I'm gonna go at an angle okay so here is what the wreath looks like I mean it's very pretty it's definitely a not you know the most perfect first burlap wreath ever but let me tell you these on Etsy can run anywhere between 30 to 200 dollars so I love that I basically made this in about seven dollars seven freaking dollars I absolutely love this and now I'm gonna put it on my front door I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial if you have any questions just comment below and let me know and I'll try my best to answer all of them I know this wasn't like the best visual whole tutorial I've ever provided but if you do get stuck just look on YouTube I'm sure there's tons of burlap how to's and beginner and I just wanted to keep it simple and classic and so I went with this look and I do have another wreath DIY that's gonna be coming up here in a couple of days so I'm super excited about that one as well and I will see you my next video byehey everyone so today I'm not actually gonna be on camera but I wanted to share with you this cute and very easy beginner level DIY for a burlap a wreath for Valentine's Day I've never made a burlap wreath before ever in my life never really like it was not really up my alley kind of style of wreaths but even though a burlap breathe really isn't at my style I decided I wanted to go ahead and try it and see and it wasn't until I found this hot pink satin ribbon that I thought that it would look amazing for Valentine's Day and yeah so I'm super excited to share this with you guys I hope it comes easy for you as well it was a little bit tricky to make sure each little poof was the same size so keep that in mind to make sure that when you are weaving your burlap through each of the little little holes in here you'll see what I'm talking about a minute but make sure every time that you weave that burlap through that it is about equal length and the fabric or in the burlap ribbon so I hope you guys enjoy this tutorial stay tuned for the list of materials and the steps on how to get this cute look and you guys I think this was about seven dollars so super excited for this and I can't wait to put it out my front door thanks for watching but the first thing I have here is my heart a wireframe I got this at Hobby Lobby for 247 but it was 40% off of that price so I'm gonna go ahead and take this tag off the next thing you're going to need is a burlap ribbon and I purchased this at Hobby Lobby as well $5.99 and it was 50% off so this was about three bucks and my dog is walking around and making a lot of noise and I do have two little twisty ties that I just took from my bread my bread things I don't know and but you can use pipe cleaners or anything that like will twist and turn and hold that makes any sense okay so now I am just gonna find a starting point and I think I'm gonna start right here on a straight line and then deal with the curves as I come back around so the first step that we're going to take is we're gonna take our burlap ribbon and we are going to fold it in half like this and then we're going to fold it in quarters like this and we're gonna loop this through the first string on the inside so we're going to feed it like this right here and then wrap it around to secure it to the first string so how I'm gonna do that is I am going to take some hot glue this is where you can use like pipe cleaners to secure but I'm just gonna use hot glue and make sure that I'm adding it to of the wire itself or else this will slide around and I'm gonna fold this over and make sure that the burlap is holding on to the wire where we just hot glued and now I'm just gonna kind of trim this excess I've never done this before I'm sure there is a much nicer easier prettier way to do this but this is the way I'm gonna do it next step is to feed the burlap through the first opening here so it doesn't have to be folded in two halves or quarters anymore and you feed it through the first slot and you kind of like pull it out maybe about this much and then depending on I guess on how like fluffy you want it to be and then we'll do the same thing and push it out through the second slot like this and now we're going to scrunch it together like this flip it around and we're going to twist the back okay and we hold on to the twist so I'm holding on to it with my thumb right here here's the twist and I'm holding on to it we're not going to secure it we're just twisting it and then we're gonna repeat that step all over again so I am going to feed this through the first section then my your you will find that this keeps like twisting with you so you can have to like unravel it and then so pull it out as much as fluffy as you want it to be and then feed it through the second slot and it's pretty secure so I can the twist is holding very well so I no longer really have to hold it and now I'm going to feed the second one through so now we're going to a bunch of that up again this turn it around be sure you don't pull down or else you're gonna pull out the little second layer here and we are going to twist I don't think the direction of the twist necessarily it matters I'm just going counterclockwise and now I'm going to feed through here again because this has a break right here there's another wire that's stopping this one from being with this little group right here I don't think I really need to twist in the back so I'm gonna go ahead and skip the twist step right there and just go ahead and feed through this first section like this and then I will feed through the second section and keep eyeballing it as you go along and make sure that everything seems to be equal you don't want one side to be fluffier than another section I'm not too worried about my starting point right here because I am going to scrunch it once I come back around so this sides gonna look a little bit bigger as you can see but once I come back around to see that it's gonna be pretty much even so just make sure that you're pulling about the same amount of burlap as you are you know for each little section that you're doing the hardest part about this is the trailing burlap that just sits there waiting to go through it just twists and turns and so you just have to keep like straightening it out but I have fed again both loops both ends are out on the first hole on the second hole now I am going to scrunch flip it around and twist I don't think the direction matters I'm gonna flip it back over and do it all over again see this just keeps twisting on me okay so my heart is complete I will say as a beginner it was not like the easiest thing to do I mean it's easy to feed it through the steps are easy but making sure that each piece is like evenly distributed and scrunched up and then you do the twist and when you do the twist sometimes you lose some of that scrunch so keep that in mind and I actually did run out of burlap or the same kind of burlap ribbon like I ran out of this so you would need about two of these but she wouldn't even use all of the second one and I had some of this on hand and it was a lot thinner than this one and so you can kind of see the difference here between this ribbon and this ribbon but it's okay because my bow is actually gonna go right here so you can't really see it but you can tell that it's like not the same amount of fluffiness but I did want it to be a little bit narrow and smaller on the tip so that you could tell it's a heart instead of it like looking like a weird shape up here so I did want there to be like this open space right here so that you could tell this was a heart so now we're going to move on to the bow and hopefully I can explain this in the easiest way possible so I want to make two four I think I want to make six loops and my boat I want my bow to have you know six little little bows okay but only two tails so I'm gonna pull enough here I'm gonna hold my finger up here cuz this is about the length of the tail that I want and I want to give myself a little bit more in case I need a cut at the end but this is where I'm gonna start to make my loops okay so this is my first tail so I folded it over and now I'm gonna go back so it's kind of like we're doing some figure eights okay do you see that and we're gonna make another loop so there is the second loop so we've actually have three loops so we have this loop right here the second and third loop and now we're going to figure eight back and now we've got four loops and now we need six so here's the fifth loop and now here is the sixth loop so after the sixth loop now you need enough for the tail for the other side so I'm just gonna do a rough cut so now I'm gonna scrunch this up in the middle and I'm gonna take one of my little bread ties it'll be a lot easier to work this way if I can have the center secured and then use my hands too okay so I've got the bread tie in the middle I want to sort of pull my loops apart from each other this would be a lot easier if you have ribbon with a wire edge because this is actually proving to be somewhat difficult and now we're going to try to do the other side okay so now I'll mess with the loops in a little bit but now we need to cover the center because you can see it a little bread tie so we're going to take a piece of the ribbon and cover up the center like this so I just need to cut up just a little bit so I'm actually going to fold this in half and take some hot glue apply to the center and then we are going to make sure it's nice and in half and then we're going to lay it over that hot glue and add some more hot glue I'm gonna go ahead and trim this because it's a little bit long and then fold it over and then this is gonna happen where glue is just gonna string everywhere so let's get our fries and then we will find our spot like this I mean you can put it wherever you'd like I mean I'm gonna put it to the left but to add my hot glue I'm going to cut the tails and I think I'm gonna go at an angle okay so here is what the wreath looks like I mean it's very pretty it's definitely a not you know the most perfect first burlap wreath ever but let me tell you these on Etsy can run anywhere between 30 to 200 dollars so I love that I basically made this in about seven dollars seven freaking dollars I absolutely love this and now I'm gonna put it on my front door I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial if you have any questions just comment below and let me know and I'll try my best to answer all of them I know this wasn't like the best visual whole tutorial I've ever provided but if you do get stuck just look on YouTube I'm sure there's tons of burlap how to's and beginner and I just wanted to keep it simple and classic and so I went with this look and I do have another wreath DIY that's gonna be coming up here in a couple of days so I'm super excited about that one as well and I will see you my next video bye\n"