Here are some merry wreathes that you can hang on your front door and that can bring luck to you and your family.
Midsummer Hay Ring
This wreathe allows you to celebrate the height of summer’s glory with a dried flower hay ring composed of dried flowers in many colors. It can be hung on a rustic gate, on an outside wall or set up on a mantelpiece.
As it is made of hay you may prefer it outdoors if allergies are a problem.
Materials
Green twine
10 inches (25 cm) diameter copper wire ring
bundle of dry hay or dry sphagnum moss
selection of colorful dried flowers such as sea lavender, statice, cornflowers, strawflowers and carthamus
scissors
florists silver roll wire
wire cutters
stub floral wires
ribbons in colors that compliment the flowers
Step 1
Tie the twine to the outer circle of the ring. Place handfuls of hay or moss over the ring and bind it securely with the twine.
Step 2
Gather the flowers into small, colorful mixed posies. Cut the stems short and bind them florist’s silver wire.
Step 3
Cut several stub floral wires in half and bend them to make U shaped staples.
Place a posy over the covered ring, loop a staple over the stems and press them into the hay or moss. Bend back the wire ends and twist them around the back of the ring to secure them.
Step 4
Continue fixing more posies around the ring so that the heads of each one cover the stems of the one before. Alternate the colors for the brightest effect. Fold the ribbon lengths in half and attach them to the ring with a floral wire.
You can also make a Striped Rose Ring Wreathe
This is a mass of roses in two contrasting colors that once placed on the ring create the optical illusion of stripes. The roses you use can be of any color. We have only used red and yellow here as an example.
Materials
Scissors
34 stems dried red roses
33 stems dried yellow roses.
4-inch (10 cm) diameter plastic foam ring for dried flowers
ribbon.
This is George Bush laying a striped style of wreath at Ground Zero in New York. Only in this case there are also carnations in the mix.
Step 1
Cut the rose stems to 2.5 inches.
Around the outside edge of the foam ring form a circle of alternating yellow and red roses by gluing their stems and pushing them into the foam. Be sure to leave a small gap in the rose circle for a ribbon to be fixed into.
Step 2
Inside the first circle construct a second circle offsetting the colors in the first ring. Continue building circles of roses until the ring is covered.
Your summer rose wreathe is complete!