I thought these were so cute so I was determined to make them. Unfortunately, I did not have a needle and thread so had to steal them from my mother. I spent an entire evening after work making these felt flowers. I thought that maybe I would get a wreath form and cover it in twine and then add them. The next day I went to Michaels and found a form but was unable to find the kind of twine I wanted (I'm sure they have it, I just HATE asking people questions in stores... it's a stupid complex). I did however go to the yarn section where I found this really warm looking grey yarn. I was sold.
I came home and covered the form in the yarn. I then tried to attach the flowers with small pins that I had bought. They were way too small to hold the flowers, which was super frustrating because I went back and forth on them about 34 times. Luckily, I remembered that I had some leftover pearl pins from a project I did years ago. I stuck those into the middle of the flowers and voila it looked great. I said that one of the learnings I have from this is that, like cake decorating, every craft looks better with pearls. :)
I promise you that this photo does not do the cuteness justice. It's super cute in person!
PS, I loved this yarn so much that I wanted to do something else with it. I had just bought some lanterns that were on sale so I thought I would try and cuten them up a little. End result:
Front porch with wreath in the door window and lanterns near the flowers (I need to get better at photo planning, ie. not taking them at night!):
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