Not only is making your own Christmas wreaths fun, but you can also make them fresh so they can get through the holidays with ease. With individual natural jewelry, you can create your own personal Christmas decoration.

Tie and design your own Christmas wreaths

With a little skill, you can easily tie Christmas wreaths yourself and design them beautifully. So you can be sure that you will get a great, individual Christmas decoration that is also nice and fresh and will survive the long holidays well.

Necessary accessories for the Christmas wreath

For the wreath, you need fir and conifer greens, a metal wreath and iron wire, garden shears and gloves as well as decoration material. The best way to obtain all of the accessories is in a well-stocked hardware store with a Christmas exhibition and garden department. You can use whatever decoration you want, for example, natural elements such as rose hips, red dogwood branches, dried fruit, or small cones.

Binding the base

For the basic work, you first need a wire wreath and iron wire. So that the wreath does not come apart later, first tie about 10 cm of wire tightly around the wreath and place the coil of wire on the outside. Now the work with the coniferous green begins. With the garden shears, you cut the green into oblong tufts. Larger tufts result in a bushy, spreading wreath, and smaller ones in a fine, narrow wreath.

Now place the green evenly on the metal collar and wrap the wire around it. If individual areas are too dense afterward, you can carefully thin them out with secateurs. It is best to lay the green clockwise and keep turning the wreath as you wrap the wire around it, so you can work well if you are right-handed. The conifer green is always laid slightly overlapping. Once you’re all the way around, use smaller pieces to smooth out the transition to the beginning.

Now the fir green comes into play

For the next layer, tie the fir green over the conifer green in the same way. This gives the wreath its Christmassy look. To finish, put the wire in a small loop, wrap it around itself a few times, and then cut it. You can either hang up the wreath or simply hide the loop under a branch.

Finally, decorate the Christmas wreath nicely

Finally, the decoration is attached. To do this, you cut off individual pieces of wire that are so long that you can twist them together on the back of the wreath. Dried fruit or other materials that are not too hard can also be impaled on a piece of wire and inserted into the wreath.