Heart Fabric Rag Wreath Tutorial

Learn how to make a Heart Fabric Rag Wreath with this great tutorial from Simple Simon and Co! It would make a fabulous project for a Valentine’s Day Crafternoon with your friends! Plus, it’s a fabulous fabric scrap-busting project!  If you like this post, you may also like this Simple Heart Banner Tutorial.

Fabric Rag wreaths are the perfect scrap busting projects so when I recently came across wire heart wreath forms I knew it was the answer for my overflowing pink and red scrap bins!

Valentine’s Heart Fabric Rag Wreath Tutorial

Rag Wreath Supplies

All you need to make these cute wreaths are:

IMPORTANT: Before cutting your scraps to size, test a 1 1/2″ x 8″ strip on your specific wreath form to ensure it’s long enough. There is some variation in the sizes of heart wreath forms in stores, and you may need a slightly longer scrap if your form is wider than the one we used.

• A pile of scraps cut roughly 1.5 inches wide and 8 inches long. TIP: You will need more scraps than you think you will! If you’re making this out of fat quarters, I’d start with at least 10. You also don’t need all of the scraps to match! That’s the charm of a project like this.
• A Heart Wire Wreath Form
• And maybe a great movie to watch because all you have left to do is tie! tie! tie!

Heart Rag Wreath Directions

Grab one scrap at a time and tie a double knot around two rungs of your wireframe…making sure to place the knot in the front.

Alternate your knots back and forth between the three rungs of your frame. So one knot between the center and inner rung and the next knot between the center and outer rung.

Remember to slide your fabric knots close together as you continue to tie your way around the frame.

And that is it.  Tie, alternate, slide.

It’s easy, relaxing, and great to work on during your favorite movie.

When you are finished, it will look something like this from the back:

And something like this from the front:

And your scrap bin will thank you for it!

About the Makers:

We are Elizabeth and Elizabeth, two girls who married brothers and ended up with the exact same name.  We are also the same age, both former school teachers, have the same number of children, live in the same county, have dogs rescued from the pound, and share a love for sewing, quilting, and the art of homemaking.

Together we blog over at Simple Simon and Company where we get the opportunity to share tips, tricks, tutorials, recipes, and thoughts with our readership.

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