Sunday, September 11, 2011

It Just "Felt" Right

As floral wreaths go, I feel I'm still on the fence as to whether or not I actually like them. What comes to mind, initially, are fake flowers, too much ribbon, and a funny moth ball smell. Something like this:



No good! I didn't want to post a link to the above photo because I'm sure there are people out there I'm going to offend. Sorry about that but it's just not my style. The point I'm trying to get to is that I've actually been working on a wreath with felt flowers! The one I'm making is a modification of a couple of wreaths. One from Nest of Posies and the other from NatSprat. What I came up with looks like this so far:




The color pallete I'm going for is turquoise, cocoa brown, mustard yellow, wine red, rusty orange, and possibly deep plum. There are so many flower tutorials I'm having a hard time choosing. Some of my favorites are Holidash's dahlia tutorial and cute little roses that From Will You? To I Do! blogged about. I'll post again after I've decided what other types of flowers to add.