How to Make a Vintage Patriotic Wreath

My vintage patriotic wreath was a natural follow-up to my Vintage Look Fourth of July Banner.  I had leftover scraps of fabric and plenty of extra book pages I had stained with coffee, so this made a quick and easy coordinated piece to add to my July decorations.

I had all kinds of scraps left from my banner, you can see in the above piece where I cut out one of my pennants!  I laid out the fabric flat on a cutting mat.

I took my rotary cutter and ran it through the fabric, making strips with a bit of a curve to them to make them easier to adhere to my wreath.

I took a plain styrofoam wreath and sprayed it in small sections with spray adhesive.  I then took the scraps and one at a time I wrapped them around the wreath and stretched and smoothed the fabric around the wreath form.  I overlapped each piece of fabric to cover all of the exposed styrofoam.

Here is my wreath with the fabric scraps all attached firmly to the wreath form.  I simply alternated the star fabric with the vintage print.

On the back side there were a couple of places where the fabric had not adhered where it overlapped other pieces of fabric.  I simply used a tiny bit of hot glue to secure those spots.

I wanted this to match my banner, so I made a few more of my paper rosettes.  If you would like the tutorial for this, you can find it here:  Vintage Look Banner.

I made these in three different sizes and added them to my fabric-covered wreath and it is ready to display!  

Little driftwood sailboats are perfect to accompany the wreath!

I will be displaying my wreath on my mantel.  Where would you display yours?

I will be sharing this at:  Patriotic Party Link Up