DIY – wreath base

I found this wreath hack on Pinterest, It was pinned from The Penny Parlor blog. She had the great idea of using foam tubing from Home Depot. When I first saw it, I was so stoked! Do you know how expensive wreaths are at Michael’s or Jo-Ann’s?! Seriously, it was an amazing idea…

wreath from The Penny Parlor blog

until I tried it myself…
wreath

uh, yeah, that is not a circle.

Her tutorial may have worked for you, and knowing me I probably got the wrong type or size of tubing, or just cut the tubing too short for it to form a nice circle (I cut a 6 foot, 1.5 diameter size, tube in half); either way I’m too lazy to go back to Home Depot to figure it out. Plus, I’m on a budget and I wasn’t about to throw away tubing that I just spent a whole $1.97 on… annnnd and I was on a time crunch when I made the original wreath so I had to come up with something! So, if you ran into the same problem as me here is my fix:

Cut the ends of the tubing at slants so they fit together nicely.

Then squeeze the tubing together and cut triangle shapes an inch or two apart along the inner side of the tubing. There is a slit along one side of the tube, which I am assuming is where you cut so you can wrap it around pipes??? I don’t know, I’m not a plumber lol  but you can use the slit as a guide if you’re not sure where to cut.

see that line/slit/cut ↑ that's what I'm talking about.

It doesn’t have to be perfect (as you can see below). The triangle shapes will end up looking like diamonds along the inner side of the tube. This allows the tube to bend into a a decent circle.

yep, looks like a circle to me.

You could easily duct tape the ends together and call it a day, but I wanted something a little bit more secure, since there were gaps everywhere. So I grabbed some packing tape I had on hand and wrapped it up.
wreath wrapped in tape

wrap it before you tap... wait... what?

That’s it and once you have a base for a wreath, the possibilities are endless. You can cover it with yarn, ribbon, or moss and add accents like flowers, little wooden birds, or monograms. I made the one below as a birthday gift for a Giants fan. I wrapped it in black felt and added black, white and orange felt flowers. I think it turned out pretty well considering what I had to work with!

I ♥ Baseball

 

fluke
P.S. Lynniear Equation, if you’re reading this, I know I made this for your birthday two months ago… and I said I was going to mail it to you two months ago, but I forgot, and will be putting it in the mail this week :]

 

2 Comments

  • Aush
    December 1, 2011 - 11:56 pm | Permalink

    hey talented crafty friend,why are you not selling these??!! So cute.

  • Aymie
    December 31, 2011 - 3:16 pm | Permalink

    I had the same problem…I stuffed my tubing with plastic grocery bags. I used an unwound hanger to stuff them inside. It worked perfectly and I ended up with a nice round wreath form (without the cuts as shown here)! Just another idea :)

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