Modern Christmas Wreath DIY (Felt) ♥ Fleece Fun

This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it’s constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste’s desire. Because it’s made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style. While I have opted to use my Cricut Maker – you can cut the individual leaves by hand.

YOU WILL NEED:

3 – 5 12″ by 12″ Felt sheets in three colors (I like to get my felt here) – you can use card stock for a different look)
Small felt pompoms (like these)
Gold wreath ring
Floral Stem Wire
Wire cutters
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Cricut Maker
Rotary Blade
FabricGrip mat
Scissors
Fleece fun’s free pattern files. Get the free pattern here.

Items listed. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

Modern Christmas Wreath DIY (Felt) Instructions:

Step 1 – Cut out the Leaves to the felt Christmas wreath

Load the free file into Design Space. I have purposely made the SVG so you can easily add or remove leaves to suit what you need.

Roatary blade for cricut Maker. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

Load the rotary blade in to your Cricut Maker and load the felt onto the fabric grip mat.

Cricut maker cutting felt. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

Cut out the leaves in the colors your desire.

Cricut Maker cutting more felt. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

For this wreath I opted to only have a few of the blue green leaves.

Removing leaves from fabric grip mat. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

Remove the felt leaves carefully from the mat. If you are cutting by hand you will want 14 to 28 leaves of each color.

Step 2 – Make the stems to the modern holiday wreath

Cutting stem wire. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

Using wire cutters snip the stems in half. It doesn’t need to be exact. From here there are two ways to make the stem – choose whichever method works best.

Glueing leaves to stem wire. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

The first method: At the bottom of the leaf, next to the slit place a line of glue.

Glueing leave sto wire continued. This modern Christmas Wreath DIY (made from felt) is a whimsical addition to your holiday décor. With a few items you can make this festive wreath. Because of the way it's constructed no two are alike. Make it as full or as thin as your taste's desire. Because it's made from felt, this wreath can be made in an array of colors to suit your style.

Then place the stem in the glue bead.

Fold the other side of the leaf over so it sits on top of the stem, covering it and eliminating the gap that at the bottom of the leaf.

The nice part about this method is that no mater which way the leaf is facing – the stem is covered.

Method two: Draw a bead of glue along the side of the slit at the bottom of the leaf.

Fold over the leaf to create the finished tucked look.

Glue a bead of glue to the back of the leaf and place the stem on it. Be mindful that you will want to make sure the the stem is not facing out when you assemble the wreath. Either method will work – go with what works for you.