Thursday, September 23, 2010

Make Your Own Primitive Fall Twig Wreath

Just noticed only 5 more followers until I reach 400 for my big giveaway!!

I was sitting out on my deck the other day enjoying the birds at my bird feeders when I looked down at the mess of twigs scattered all over. I am constantly sweeping them off the deck. We have several huge trees that hang over our deck. I've always liked those twig wreaths and decided I might try making my very own.

Click on each picture for a more closeup view for the detail.



I used a heavy rusty wire shaped into a 4" circle. You could also use a old wire coat hanger.


Gather up bunches of twigs that are around 6" or 7" inches long. Wrap with rusty wire very tightly. I like to add a few tiny thin twigs for that wispy look. I ended up making around 17 bunches for my wreath.


Then start attaching the bunches one at a time with your rusty wire, laying them horizontal with the wire frame you made. Once you get one attached lay the next bunch slightly down a little on top of your first bunch. And so on and so forth.


You then end up with a wreath that is about 11" across! You could make these any size.

26 comments:

  1. This looks so nice!!! I usually buy them.... guess I need to start gathering sticks!

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  2. That is a nice and simple idea. We have lots of vines that grow along the old barb wire fence, those already have twists and still fresh, so I bet I could twist those around a wreath.

    Debbie

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  3. Looks great! I like yours better than the ones on the store!

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  4. WOW - thanks so much for the instructions! I love these wreaths, but never really thought about making them. They are so expensive in the stores...now I can craft my own. I have lots of branches in our yard and woods to pick from. Thank you again!

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  5. What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing! Patti

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  6. Thanks for the instructions! I love it! ♥

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  7. Thank you so much for sharing the directions for making a twig wreath. I have purchased these wreaths in the past but would rather make my own Goodness knows this time of year we certainly have enough twigs to gather up!

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  8. That is beautiful, thank you for sharing how to make these, I will have to wait until next year when it is our Autumn/Winter, right now my twigs have new shoots all over them... very pretty, could probably make a nice spring wreath but I don't have the heart to cut them off!

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  9. What a great tutorial! I couldn't believe it when I saw it on Kim's Valley Primitives blog roll as I have been searching for this and I am definitely going to try this!
    Thanks so much!
    Love your blog!
    Christine

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  10. I LOVE this wreath....thanks so much for posting the how to's!!!
    Karen

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  11. Now you only need 4 more followers till your big bog give away. :o)
    Love the wreath!

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  12. I always wondered "howd they do that" thanks for sharing!

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  13. My birch trees are always dropping branches they are red so would be perfect. thanks to the info.

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  14. This is a fabulous idea Tammy!
    I just posted a link to this on my blog.
    TFS,
    Tam

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  15. thank you for sharing this wonderful tutorial and I am sure going to have a got at this..XX

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  16. I found your blog from Tammy at A Primitive Place. Thank you SO MUCH! These look perfect, better than the ones for sale and I know we can make them for way less. We live on an acre of huge oak trees, maples and poplars. I've got lots of twigs!! I will add you to my blog and followers.
    Warm Regards,
    Susan B., Western MA

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  17. Thanks for the great tutorial! Hugs.Jen

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  18. What a great idea. The wreath looks better than the ones for sale. Thanks.

    Ellie

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  19. This is great!! I always pick up twigs and have a huge bag that I use for crafting. They are usually used as deer antlers on Christmas reindeers and bottoms for witch brooms but now I know what to do with the rest!! Thanks for sharing ~Kriss~

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  20. love to become a follower but blogger is not cooperating....no follower link to sign up...so sorry..I will bookmark your blog and check back later..love the tutorial!

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    1. Just saw your post. I had no idea my follow link was not there. It has been fixed.

      Tammy

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  21. It looks like this might be a dead thread/blog as I see no posts newer than 2010. Just in case though (smile) I want to say I am really excited to try this project sometime. I've seen others but they all involved a hot glue gun & I am using less glue these days since the packets it comes in are not biodegradeable or recycleable plus a lot of the glues are toxic. :) Thanks for this earth friendlier version!

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    1. Hello, Thank you for visiting my blog! My blog is very much alive. If you scroll down in the right column to "Blog Archive" you can see all my posts for each year. I do admit I don't post as often as I used to. Not sure people read blogs anymore. Glad you like my wreath tutorial!

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