Dried Hydrangea Wreath Tutorial
Dried Hydrangea Wreath Tutorial: easy directions with pictures to make your own wreath. Wreath can be made with faux or dried hydrangeas.
More often than not, it’s the simple things in life that bring the most satisfaction. A beautiful fall day, a pot of soup on the stove, all the laundry finished. (The last one is not a common occurrence around here. If it ever did happen believe me, I would get tremendous satisfaction from it!) Anyway, something that has repeatedly put a smile on my face the past few months are my Limelight Hydrangea bushes. I planted them in the spring of 2014 and after just one year I had the most amazing blooms. I was able to fill two big buckets and had enough blooms to make arrangements in my silver urns as well as a wreath. This dried hydrangea wreath took some patience, but was well worth the time and effort.
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Dried Hydrangea Wreath Tutorial
What you need:Â
- 14 inch straw wreath
- a hole punch
- scissors
- about 25 dried hydrangea blooms.Â
A styrofoam wreath can also be used. If you choose a straw wreath, make sure to leave the wrapping on.Â
Lay your wreath base on a flat surface. Using the punch to make a hole first, start placing the dried hydrangeas along the outside of the wreath. Insert the blooms at a slight angle, like the spokes of a wheel. I trimmed the stems of my hydrangeas to about 3 inches. This first layer took 15 blooms and I chose the smallest ones I had.
Continue inserting blooms at an angle on the top of the wreath. I chose larger blooms and used ten. To finish it off, add four or five more blooms on the inside of the circle. This isn’t really an exact science. Some blooms will stick out further than others but don’t worry. Once you have the wreath base full of blooms, they sort of blend all together.Â
Working with Dried Hydrangeas
Even though this project was super easy, it was a little nerve-wracking. I broke a few stems at the start and was annoyed with myself. So I slowed down and made sure I had a good hole before I stuck the stems in the wreath. My blooms were very dry so there was some shedding and a bit of a mess. It was totally worth it though because the wreath is beautiful and full. It’s on my door right now and I think it’s perfect.Â
If you don’t have dried hydrangeas, this dried hydrangea wreath tutorial could be used with silk hydrangea blooms from a craft store. There would be no shedding and the wreath would probably last longer.Â
For more on Limelight Hydrangeas just click the images below!
