A couple of Christmases ago someone on one of the quilting facebook pages I follow posted a photo of a beautiful Christmas wreath made from fabric, everyone went crazy over it and eventually she kindly wrote out some instructions which are still on Pat Sloan’s website as a free pattern. This was her wreath, isn’t it gorgeous…
I decided to make one, it is actually pretty easy as I remember, just circles of fabric folded into quarters and gathered along the curved edge, the ‘leaves’ were then just pinned into a polystyrene base. I decided to make some of them into Christmas rose type flowers as well, but I did struggle to get it to look right. I wrote about it here. Here was my finished wreath…
Whilst it has been on display each Christmas there was something about it that just didn’t work for me, it just didn’t look as good as I thought it should.
On Sunday I was sorting out some Christmas decorations and I decided to tackle it. I felt the main issue was the flowers, nice idea but it just didn’t work, so off came the flowers. Everything is just pinned on so it was pretty easy to alter.
At first I was pinning them on pretty randomly, now some of you may remember I struggle with random!I hadn’t pinned many back on when I decided to make it a bit more organised, I pinned green ones on the outer and inner edges and the red ones down the centre.
It looks so much better, I feel it works now, so it’s proudly on display above the hearth.
thecraftycreek 
So pretty
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I’ll have to see if I can find a polystyrene wreath form, this is very pretty!
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It looks fabulous!
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The wreath is lovely!
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it is GORGEOUS!! I like the remake much better too!
Happy Holidays from Iowa
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I like it much better without the flowers, that was a good decision. It looks beautiful now!
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Inspired decision to take off the flowers, and to organise them into the green and red parts. Very stylish!
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That’s much better! Well done!
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It looks great.
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Random can be delightful, but perhaps with the eye darting to & fro so much it was a bit… well… maybe confusing for just now. We’re living in confusing times, and perhaps more order is comforting. I think they were both lovely, and this season’s version is very appropriate for This season. (Hope you’re not offended. xx)
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Not at all Del, I just find it hard to do random, I like a bit of order in my life 🙂
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It’s surprising how much effort has to go into placement to achieve a ‘random’ effect, isn’t it? It’s all about balance and real, true-life, actual ‘random’ probably wouldn’t look right. Just to say, you got it right in the end – beautiful!
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