easy repurposed dress-to-wreath tutorial

December 5th, 2008

Here’s the tutorial for the repurposed dress I posted yesterday. It’s reeeaaallly easy, so if you’ve got a dress collecting dust in your closet that you’d like give new life to, go ahead and turn it into a wreath. Your door will thank you!

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Here’s what you need:
     *dress
     * foam wreath form
     * batting cut into 4 to 6 inch strips
     * scissors
     * glue gun

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Starting from the bottom, cut in a spiral all around your dress so that you end up with one long piece:

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Roll it up and set aside:

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Grab your batting and use the glue gun to attach one end to your foam wreath. Then start winding around:

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Keep winding until you’ve gone all the way around, gluing ends down as you go:

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Now take the end of your dress and glue it onto the batting:

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Wind all the way around until you get to the end of your dress:

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Uh-oh! Did you run out of dress? It’s ok…just unwind a bit and rewind a little looser this time:

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Once you’ve got your dress going all the way around, trim the tail so that it ends on the inside of the ring. Glue that baby down and  you’re pretty much done!

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I used the straps on the dress to hang it, but I’ll admit it’s still lacking a little something. Use this guide as a starting point and embellish with buttons, ribbons, bows, bells, sparklies…anything pretty!

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Now have fun and enjoy your new wreath!

And, as always, please feel free to comment or email me with any questions!

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