I started with a wire wreath frame, three different fabrics, and a spool of ribbon. I bought some Packers print fabric, plain green fabric, plain gold fabric, and football print ribbon. In hindsight, I would have purchased more of the ribbon. I wanted football fabric, but the only football fabric they had was bright blue, which wasn't going to work for me. I bought a yard and a half of each and could have easily been fine with a yard and maybe even 3/4 of a yard of each fabric. I laid everything out and cut the fabric into strips seven inches long by one inch wide. I cut the Packers fabric eight inches long to try and get more of the pattern to show. The ribbon was already 1" wide, so I just cut it into seven inch long strips. For my first set of strips, I just cut one width of the fabric because I didn't want a ton of strips leftover. To finish the wreath, I ended up using three strips from the fabric for each one.
In this photo, you can see everything laid out. To cut these strips, I highly recommend using a mat (you can see mine at the top of the photo) and a rotary cutter. My mat had one inch increments on it, which makes it super easy to cut the strips out.
Once you have all your strips cut, you start tying them on the frame. Be sure to double knot each piece so it doesn't come undone.
Materials for the project:
Fabric/Ribbon- if you are using two colors, I would reccommend getting 1 1/2 yards of both colors. if you are getting three or four colors, you would be fine with 3/4 yard to one yard of each color.
18" wire wreath frame
Cutting Mat
Rotary Cutter
Here is the finished product
When you get closer to the wreath, you can see the Packers ribbon a little better. I love how it turned out and hope this brings the Packers some luck this week on their opening game because it might be a tough one. Go PACK!
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