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Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today we are
going to make a country kitchen wreath to hang on the wall in your country kitchen.
You are going to take your base wreath and weave some ribbon through it. What I have
done with this wreath is to leave two long pieces of ribbon hanging. Whenever you start
weaving, you want to come from behind and cover a joint. This is good for two reasons
for one it will give you strength, extra strength to your wreath and also on those occasions
when you have a joint that did not quite come together, it covers that up and no one will
ever see that there is a space between those pretzels. So you are going to go in and out
throughout your wreath, weaving your ribbon. If your ribbon has two different sides you
want to make sure that the same side always stays up and doesn’t twist, otherwise you
will have different looks and that probably won’t be what you will want to do with that.
When you have gone all the way around with your ribbon, this time you are going to want
to leave some of it hanging so that you can make this little chevron to go on top of the
pieces of ribbon that are hanging down. It is just a little different look than a bow
and to me it was just a little bit more country than a bow would have been. So you are coming
around with your wreath and then cross over and back, take a bead of glue, you can use hot glue
for this, put a bead of hot glue and then turn your ribbon and give it a little bit
of a fold, so that it hangs down the way you want it to. When that has cooled, put another
bead and do the same thing with the other piece of ribbon that is coming out from the
other side, so that you have some hanging down. After you have gotten your ribbon woven
all the way through your wreath you are going to want to embellish it. I found stickers
and I also found little metal pieces, these were in the button section and this was in
the scrap booking section of the store. I like to give my pieces kind of a 3D effect,
so to do that you want to secure something whatever it would be, just in the back of
your piece, can be something solid or it can be something that is a print; in this case
it was the little picture of vegetables. Then lay your pieces around the way you would like
them and keep on putting them around and moving them around until they are just exactly where
you want them. Then take your hot glue and glue them down and then to make this little
chevron, I simply cross the ribbon over, glued it in place and embellished it with a bit
of the metal findings that were left. Then you are going to take a small piece of ribbon,
make a hanger in the back and your country kitchen wall hanging or wreath is ready to
go on your wall decorating that country kitchen.