How to Make a Country Kitchen Wreath With Pretzels

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Ginny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village and today we are going to make a country kitchen wreath to hang on the wall in your country kitchen. You are going to take your base wreath and weave some ribbon through it. What I have done with this wreath is to leave two long pieces of ribbon hanging. Whenever you start weaving, you want to come from behind and cover a joint. This is good for two reasons for one it will give you strength, extra strength to your wreath and also on those occasions when you have a joint that did not quite come together, it covers that up and no one will ever see that there is a space between those pretzels. So you are going to go in and out throughout your wreath, weaving your ribbon. If your ribbon has two different sides you want to make sure that the same side always stays up and doesn’t twist, otherwise you will have different looks and that probably won’t be what you will want to do with that. When you have gone all the way around with your ribbon, this time you are going to want to leave some of it hanging so that you can make this little chevron to go on top of the pieces of ribbon that are hanging down. It is just a little different look than a bow and to me it was just a little bit more country than a bow would have been. So you are coming around with your wreath and then cross over and back, take a bead of glue, you can use hot glue for this, put a bead of hot glue and then turn your ribbon and give it a little bit of a fold, so that it hangs down the way you want it to. When that has cooled, put another bead and do the same thing with the other piece of ribbon that is coming out from the other side, so that you have some hanging down. After you have gotten your ribbon woven all the way through your wreath you are going to want to embellish it. I found stickers and I also found little metal pieces, these were in the button section and this was in the scrap booking section of the store. I like to give my pieces kind of a 3D effect, so to do that you want to secure something whatever it would be, just in the back of your piece, can be something solid or it can be something that is a print; in this case it was the little picture of vegetables. Then lay your pieces around the way you would like them and keep on putting them around and moving them around until they are just exactly where you want them. Then take your hot glue and glue them down and then to make this little chevron, I simply cross the ribbon over, glued it in place and embellished it with a bit of the metal findings that were left. Then you are going to take a small piece of ribbon, make a hanger in the back and your country kitchen wall hanging or wreath is ready to go on your wall decorating that country kitchen."