How To Make Christmas Wreaths Garlands

Give your holiday season a personal touch with beautiful handmade Christmas decorations from the author of Celebrate with a Stitch. This collection of Christmas wreath and garland projects makes the festive period even more special. Celebrated author and pattern designer Mandy Shaw shares her favorite Christmas sewing projects and shows us how to make beautiful Christmas decorations to bedeck our home at this special time of year. The projects feature Mandy’s favorite seasonal motifs, including snowmen, reindeer, holly, doves, and candy canes, along with Mandy’s super simple techniques for making eleven different garlands, wreaths, and Christmas cones. All the motifs and wreaths can be mixed and matched to make endless seasonal variations for a totally unique Christmas project. These projects make the perfect presents for friends and family—or treat yourself and make one to decorate your own home this Christmas!

Stylishly themed in Red & White, Mandy Shaw's Red & White Christmas Projects are sure to inspire you to pick up your needle and thread and start stitching. The book contains 10 stunningly photographed projects and over 25 full sized patterns and motifs that range from quick and effective tree decorations to a stunning quilt.

In A Blissful Nest, celebrated interior designer Rebekah Dempsey offers fresh and attainable design ideas to show you how to discover your interior style and create a home that truly reflects your personality and the way you live.

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Deck The Halls is an Instructional Christmas Wreath-Making Book. Nancy planned, took many close-up, color photos, and wrote precise instructions as she created this gorgeous Christmas wreath. She then wrote "Deck The Halls," which equips and encourages you to find your own uniquely different style. To find your style, it is imperative that you first learn the basics of wreath design. Nancy's goal and desire is to equip you with these basics in addition to all you need to assure your very first wreath will be as breathtaking as this one. She will teach you these basics, along with all tips, ideas and a technique, she alone, has developed during her close to thirty years in the floral & home decor industry. You can be assured that a professional with many years of experience is teaching you to do it the "right way." A beginner with no experience to a professional designer will benefit from this beautiful, well-written, and easy to follow book. Nancy starts with a Christmas Green base. She then adds many loops and curls of a beautiful Christmas ribbon in addition to extra Christmas and everyday greens. Nancy is known for her attention to her fine details in each and every one of her designs - and her Christmas wreaths are no exception - they are SPECTACULAR! Nancy's instructions teach you how to securely attach a pick to a stem, make sure your "critters" such as a birds, ladybugs, nests, & bird houses are anchored securely. And she certainly does not leave out how to tie a beautiful single, double, or triple ribbon bow for which she is so well known. Nancy is delighted to be able to share with you her tips and secrets. She is sure that "You Can Do It," which you now hear so often as her encouraging tag line.

Presents a parable about Santa's elves that involves a hungry polar bear, the water world below the ice, and the miraculous transformation of a ragged, unfinished wreath.

Get inspired to decorate your home with these charming wreaths and garlands. Divided into five themed chapters on leaves and flowers, fabric and ribbon, papercraft, mixed media, and holidays and special occasions, you will find inspiration throughout the year. You can make a berry wreath so you can bring summer indoors, a scented herb garland to hang in the kitchen, a wreath made of paper leaves cut out of vintage books, a delicate pine wreath to hang above your table at Christmas, and many more simple ways to make your home look really special. So whether you are looking for something to make from all the flowers and greenery you have gathered in your garden or to use scraps of paper and fabric you have collected, you will be sure to find a project for every occasion, from Mother’s Day or an Easter wreath, to Halloween, and a Christmas garland.