This sweet burlap heart wreath is a great addition to your home for Valentine’s Day. This version is made with burlap ribbon with a lace accent, but this wreath could also be made with red or pink burlap using the same technique.
If you haven’t guessed by now, I love to decorate for all seasons, and this craft is an easy one to add a little extra love and joy around your home. This is so simple and can be customized to your own style. Really, you could use any wreath form for the shape, but for Valentine’s Day, I thought a heart would be the best choice.
If you are looking for more Valentine’s Day crafts, I’ve got plenty the kids can do for mom, sweet teacher gifts, class treat bags, canvas paintings, picture frames and more.
You could even make an afternoon of crafting! Grab some hot chocolate, turn on a good movie and go for it.
This one was originally posted over at Darice where I am a paid contributor.
How to make a burlap wreath
This DIY burlap wreath is a super simple craft to hang in your classroom, front door, inside your home, or wherever you need a little more love in the air!
Supplies needed to make a heart wreath
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- Heart Wreath Form
- Burlap and Lace Ribbon (three rolls is just right)
- Scissors
- Floral Wire
Instructions for a heart shaped burlap wreath
First, let’s make sure we understand the different parts of the wreath frame. Here’s a graphic of the different terms for this tutorial.
Basically, this tutorial will consist of looping and scrunching the burlap along the inner and outer edges of the frame. Here we go!
Step 1: Attach the burlap to the frame
First, attach the burlap to the frame. This can be done anywhere on the frame, but the easiest spot is at the crossbar. This way, you aren’t constantly holding the end of the burlap and fussing with the loops at the same time.
Cut a piece of floral wire and thread through the end of one of your rolls of burlap ribbon. Gather as shown below.
Attach this at the crossbar on your heart wreath form.
Step 2: Create the loops for the wreath.
Start where your burlap is anchored to the frame. Make sure your wreath frame is curve-side up. To create the loops, push the ribbon up through the bottom of the inner frame. Then, twist the tail of the ribbon on the underside of the frame, and send another loop through the outer frame.
Here are the looping steps broken down:
- Push a loop through the inner frame. Find desired size by pulling more or less burlap through the inner frame.
- From the underside of the frame, twist the “tail” of the ribbon to prepare for the second loop.
- Then, push the fabric through the outer frame to create another loop (as in #1). Create the same size as the loop on the inner frame.
The twisting helps to ensure that your ribbon does not pull out. The size of your loops will determine how much ribbon your wreath will require.
Continue around your wreath in this same manner and pack your loops really tight.
To start a new spool of ribbon, use a piece of wire to tie the two together then attach these to the wire form – just like when we first began.
Continue until your wreath is completely full of bubbles. As you reach the end, tie the remaining ribbon off by anchoring it to the frame with a piece of wire – just as you did to begin the wreath.
Then just hang your heart wreath on your door to welcome in love this Valentine’s Day.
I am loving this combination of lace with rustic burlap in a heart shape! I hope you will get your supplies and make your own heart wreath.
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Ingredients
- Heart Wreath Form
- Burlap and Lace Ribbon three rolls is just right
- Scissors
- Floral Wire
Instructions
- With a piece of floral wire, attach the burlap to the frame by threading the wire through the end of the burlap ribbon.
- Attach this at the crossbar on your heart wreath form.
- With the wreath frame curve side up, push a loop through the inner frame. Find desired size by pulling more or less burlap through the inner frame.
- From the underside of the frame, twist the “tail” of the ribbon to prepare for the second loop.
- Then, push the fabric through the outer frame to create another loop (as in #1). Create the same size as the loop on the inner frame.
- Continue around your wreath in this same manner and pack your loops really tight.
- To start a new spool of ribbon, use a piece of wire to tie the two together then attach these to the wire form – just like when we first began.
- Continue until your wreath is completely full of loops. As you reach the end, tie the remaining ribbon off by anchoring it to the frame with a piece of wire – just as you did to begin the wreath.
