Nighttime Forest Winter Wreath

I need all the twinkle lights I can get right now. A lot of the decor in my office starts turning on mid-afternoon and if something doesn’t have a timer, I happily work my way through switches. I still have empty space to fill with lights, so dug through my stash and made this nighttime forest winter wreath. It’s pretty easy to make, although wrapping the yarn does take a little while. It’s an easily adaptable wreath–change the proportions of the yarns, add more decorations to the trees or none at all, the bow is up to you…the point is the twinkle and I’m happy with how it turned out.

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Supplies:

12″ foam wreath
white loopy yarn
Big Twist Twinkle Yarn in Sapphire
fairy lights
bottlebrush trees (mine came from IKEA last year, but there’s no shortage of similar ones out there!)
small tinsel garland (mine was a random HomeGoods fine–this is similar)
glitter bow (mine came from Target’s Christmas section—these are similar but slightly bigger)
straight pins
scissors

Instructions:

Pin down the center pull of the twinkle yarn with a straight pin.

Wrap a little less than half of the wreath with the twinkle yarn. Pin the end point and trim the yarn.

Do the same with the loopy yarn, making sure that the rest of the wreath is covered.

Tuck the battery pack of the twinkle lights into some loops on the back of the wreath.

Wrap the fairy lights around the blue part of the wreath, trying to keep it even, until you get to the other side. I tucked the end into the yarn on that side.

Pull off the bottoms of the trees if they will come off.

If the bottoms are off, just gently poke the trees into the wreath. You may need to push some yarn to the side. If the bottoms are still on, you’ll probably need to glue the trees down.

Take the tinsel garland of your choice and carefully string it around the trees for as much coverage as you want. Attach the bow under the trees. My bows came with twist ties, so I poked the ties through the loopy yarn and twisted them at the back.