My friend Ann sent me a giant box crammed with roll upon roll of red, pink, and white ribbons. Most of them wired, half of them satin, all of them extraordinary.
Now, I should say, this wreath took a lot of ribbon to make, and yet, I used less than 20% of what Ann sent me in that box, which is extraordinary because Ann she said she sent me less than 10% of her ribbon stash, which is to say, Ann needs to start a blog ASAP so that she can take us all on virtual tours of her ribbon collection. This is something I have to see!
At first I was going to use these ribbons on my pink tree, but alas, the flocking was clashing with anything delicate as ribbons, so I reserved them for roses to use on a Valentines wreath. If you are a longtime follower, you might remember these from the bouquet I made for my bestfriend’s wedding.
These suckers are Eee-Zee Pee-Zee (and yes that is how you spell it).
Materials: Wired ribbon, a wreath base, hot glue. Boom.
- Start with at least 24″ of wired ribbon (sometimes called French ribbon).
- Using your fingers to pinch the wire at one end, push the ribbon toward the center. Repeat on the opposite end.
- Keep pushing and gathering until the the gathered seam is less than one third the original length0 (in this case, I started with 24″ and finished with 8″).
Once you have a piece of ruffled ribbon ready to go, it’s just a matter of rolling, twisting and pinching..
Now that you have the rose all rolled up, twist off the ends to keep it in shape so you can make a bunch more roses. For a 15″ wreath base, I used 35 roses. I could have gotten by with ten less, but it would have looked even cooler with ten more. It’s a matter of preference.
If you like wreaths as much as I do, you have to check out Michele’s Wreath Blog. It’s jam packed with oodles of amazeball wreaths!
