Leaf Wreath – ARTBAR

I took a walk in our community park this week on the most best fall day. Temps had been minimal 60’s, sky was shiny blue, there was a slight breeze and just the odor of autumn in the air. The trees have been turning for two weeks now but on this day, with the breeze, leaves ended up fluttering to the ground all around me.

I introduced a bag with me to accumulate leaves, as 1 does on best drop days, and I gathered so many that it felt like it weighed a few pounds. I promptly considered of the best plan for my big bag of leaves…. a leaf wreath designed with a wire hanger!

I 1st noticed this leaf wreath thought several years back on my mate Gina’s web site, Willowday. I understood it required a ton of leaves considering that they are stacked, and I’m normally someone who only collects what I can keep, so I haven’t had a opportunity to provide house a major leaf haul right until now!

How to make a leaf wreath with a wire hanger:

1. Gather your leaves and arrange them by color. I should have collected a handful of hundred leaves at least, but real truth be told I *still* did not have ample. I had to cut my hanger a small shorter. So err on the aspect of far too substantially!

2. Use needle nose pliers to untwist the best of the wire hanger. Use your very own arms to bend out the kinks, then to bend it into a circle. To minimize the wire hanger (which you will in all probability have to do unless of course you received 1000’s of leaves!), just bend back and forth a several moments in one particular spot and it will break. You can do this by hand or with the pliers. (You can also use floral wire, like this vine-coated form, as a substitute of a hanger.)

3. Commence stacking and threading the leaves onto the wire hanger. It is pretty simple to do, you can do a bunch at a time.

4. Thread them upside down until eventually you get midway, then thread them correct facet up.

6. When you are accomplished threading, use the pliers to bend the end into a minor loop, then hook it at the top rated to protected the ring.

This wreath will commence to dry up pretty quickly and the colours will fade. If you want the shade to past, test dipping the leaves in beeswax 1st!

xo, Bar

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