Beautiful Bunnies
Welcome back to Mile Wide Crafts.
We are very excited to introduce our first guest
blogger today. KC does beautiful work using a wide variety of crafting media
and techniques. Today she has brought us two absolutely adorable wreaths that
are perfect for spring. This is KC’s
first blog, so let’s give her lots of likes and shares to encourage her to
write more. Without further ado, here are KC’s bunny wreaths.
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| Floral Bunny Wreath |
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| Spring Bunny Wreath |
Floral Bunny Wreath
So, my first attempt at writing a “blog,”
albeit as a guest blogger… I wanted to try something different than my usual
sewing/photography/baking projects and was inspired by some
Spring/Easter-themed wreaths that I found on pinterest. The first is a fabric flowered wreath, which
I added bunnies to so that it would be more Easter-ish. The second was a bunny wreath that I adapted
a little bit.
Step one:
Choose Fabrics
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| Fabric Options |
I went through my piles and piles of
fabric, trying to find colors and patterns that I liked which and which also
went together in some way. I decided to
go with more pinks and blues, with dashes of yellow. Purple just wasn’t really speaking to me that
day.
Step 2: Find templates
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| Floral Stencil |
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| Ribbon Inspriation |
I looked around for something to pattern
the flowers with. This stencil that I
used to paint the pantry seemed like a good place to start. The ribbon’s spool also gave me some
inspiration. I traced both on a variety
of fabrics, mostly at random. I also did
some free-hand shapes. You’ll be able to
tell which ones!
Step 3: Stack cut shapes
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| Cut shapes |
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| Stacked flowers |
Once I had a bunch of different sizes and
fabrics cut out, I started stacking them.
With some, I placed the smaller shaped directly (mostly) aligned with
the larger shapes. With others, I used
the same size and shape and just offset the petals. I like both ways. I also cut out centers, because I forgot that
I had planned to use buttons for that.
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| Button Centers Added |
Step 4: Stiffen the flowers
I realized that the flowers were going to
be too floppy for the wreath and, since I was being lazy and didn’t want to run
to the store AND I already had some spray adhesive which I had used for another
project, I decided to use up some more of my more sturdy scraps. I used the spray adhesive to adhere the
flowers to the backgrounds. I thought
that using a variety of colors would add interest, even though the background
is really not supposed to be seen.
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| Stiffened Flowers |
Step 5: Wrap the wreath form
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| Wrapping the Wreath Form |
I had two ribbon options and chose the
green plaid. Of course, I didn’t have
enough, so I ended up using both. I’ve
found that mistakes almost always add interest to my projects, no matter what I’m
working on!
I very loosely glued the
ribbon in place. I only glued about 4” at a time so that the glue wouldn’t
harden as I was wrapping the ribbon.
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| Glue in small sections |
Step 6: Place the Flowers
I placed the flowers where I thought they
looked best and used pearl-headed straight pins to attach button centers. Then, it was time for the bunnies!
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| Flowers pinned in place |
Step 7: Make the bunnies
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| Bunny Ears |
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| Bunny Parts |
There are lots of tutorials on how to make
pompoms, so I won’t repeat those directions here. I made 4 large and 4 small pompoms with the
softest yarn I could find. Then, I cut
ears out of felt, bought small white pompoms for bunny tails, and hot glued all
of the pieces together. I had googly
eyes, but decided that the bunnies were cute enough without them! I hot glued the ears, the body parts, and the
tails together.
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| Completed Bunny |
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| Bunny with Friends |
Step 8: Place the bunnies on the wreath
The last thing I had to do was glue the
bunnies on to the wreath. I realized
that they were a bit heavy, so I added some extra ribbon in the back for
support. I used floral wire as a
hanger.
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| Extra Support for Bunnies |
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| Completed Floral Bunny Wreath |
Spring
Bunny Wreath
The spring bunny wreath was much less
complicated. I bought a 6” inch wreath and an 8” wreath, and wired them
together using floral wire. Then, I hot
glued some fake flowers on for ears.
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| Wired Wreaths with Ears |
After that, it was just arranging more fake
flowers until I liked what it looked like, then hot-glued them in place. I’m not entirely sure that I’m finished yet,
though. I might add some flowers to the
head and/or a ribbon around its neck.
Hmmm….
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| Completed Spring Bunny Wreath |
Many thanks to our guest Blogger KC for her beautiful bunnies.
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