Heart Burlap Wreath DIY

Supplies:

• Heart shaped wire form wreath
• 2 rolls of red burlap
• Burlap
• Dowel Rod
• Hot Glue Gun
• Twine

First, tie a knot onto the wrong side of the wreath form and then for the ruffles, take the burlap and push the strand through the bars one at a time, eventually you’ll have three ruffles. I made the ruffle the height I wanted and made sure to repeat this same size throughout the wreath. Each bar to bar section has three rows of ruffles. If you run out of burlap just grab a new roll, tie and continue with the ruffles.

Once I finished adding the burlap I had worked with the ruffles so that the heart shape would be more predominant. I did this by tucking in parts of the ruffles into the the wreath form.

For the arrow, I already had a white dowel rod from the ribbon holder you can find at the craft store. It broke one day and as you all know I hate throwing things away because you never know what you may need for a craft. I liked it white because it popped on the red background of the wreath.

Originally I wanted to saw into the two ends of the dowel rod so that I could insert the arrowhead and tail to look more like an arrow, but I didn’t have a bandsaw and hand-sawing the slits proved to be hard because I didn’t think to line up the two sides. So I went with the original plan of gluing the arrowhead and tail to the dowel rod.

To make the arrowhead and tail first modge podged the burlap piece and hung them to dry. Once they hardened drew out the arrowhead and tail to the size I wanted on a piece of paper and cut that out to trace onto the burlap.

I cut out two of each and hot glued them together for more stability. After they dried I hot glued them to the dowel rod to make the arrow.

Then I placed the arrow onto my heart wreath exactly how I wanted and tied the two sides to the wreath with twine. I like to use twine because if I ever want to change up my wreath I can just cut it off and add something new without ruining the wreath or the accent piece with glue.