Last year I pulled out a pumpkin wreath form
and decorated it with fall leaves, sunflowers, berries and other doodads. I was majorly unsatisfied because the color of the green leaves is off-putting. The entire wreath was fussier than I intended it to be.
When I pulled it out of storage, I just couldn't get myself to display it again.
So I'm going to try something different.
I was inspired by these two photos I found on Pinterest. This pumpkin wreath form is wrapped in looped yarn. That's an easy and super-fast option.
This one is macrame. The simplicity and tidiness of this wreath attracts me.
So a few months ago I went looking for the loop yarn but couldn't find the quantity I needed in orange. So off to my trusty Dollar Tree I went and found these small skeins of Premier Just Chenille yarn in the color Salmon.
I think it's orange enough for my purposes. I hope it's thick enough. I hope 5 skeins is enough.
I was considering winding the yard around each spine of the wreath form. When I talked it over with Jodie, she suggested I crochet a slip stitch around each spine. I like that idea.
Chenille yarn isn't the easiest to work with because once you get a knot in it, the knot doesn't release very easily. Yarn from the Dollar Tree isn't a very high quality, so it's likely to break fairly easily. I like the fuzzy softness of it, though.
It's all a giant experiment. If it works, it works. If it doesn't ... well ... maybe I'll have to use last year's pumpkin after all.
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