Thrifty Autumn Wreath

It's been so unusually cool here, it has thrown me into a little Autumn crafting. I've been wanting to make a large Autumn wreath for our door ( and pinning lots of ideas on Pinterest) but wreath making supplies at our Hobby shop are a little too expensive for me at the moment.

At a thrift store this weekend while looking for wool sweaters to felt, I spotted these!  A couple of small wreaths and some "woolesque" yarn in Fall colors.

With some of the lovely wreaths in mind from Pinterest, an image began to form.

I began by wrapping my wreath in this warm, soft, orange.  Next I invaded my stash of felted sweaters and cut out a red maple leaf and two other leaves in dark purple felt.

Then I made some warm yellow flowers from another thrifted sweater. For these I cut a long strip from the sleeve.  This piece is about an inch wide.  It can be as long as you want. The longer  it is the bigger your flower will be.  I glued it in half and then before it dried I began rolling the flower.

After it was rolled, I stitched it together, adding a little glue at the end to keep it wrapped firm.   

To hang it, I finger knit a cord in the thrifted red yarn.  All of the flowers, leaves and cord are stitched and glued on to make sure it stays together through the years.

I love the crafts that come together with things you already have on hand or that you can find inexpensively. 

Are you getting into the Autumn, crafty spirit?  What are you making?

Until next time...