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How to Make a Grapevine Wreath
by
Monica Resinger
These wreaths make
fine gifts to give to friends and family as is or fixed up with dried
flowers and herbs and ribbons. These wreaths are great to hang on the
front door or on your walls as decorations.
I looked out the back door a couple weeks ago and realized there was
barely a way to get through the arbor because the grapevine had grown so much. So I
took my clippers and started clipping away until there was a nice big opening.
When I was finished, I had a big pile of long grapevines, so I decided to make a few grapevine wreaths.
Making a grapevine wreath is very simple. First, take a fresh vine and form a
circle in the diameter you want the wreath to be. Most likely, you will have
excess vine; wind this excess vine around the vine circle you just formed.
When the vine is to the end, tuck that end firmly inside a space between two
wound vines; on the first round, there might not be two wound vines to tuck the
end into, so just hold the end of the vine until it is wrapped in with the second
vine. Now take another vine, insert the beginning end between two wound vines and begin the winding and ending process all over again.
Keep doing this until you have a wreath in the thickness you desire.
Keep in mind that the wreath will shrink as it dries, so you will want to make it a little thicker than your desired thickness.
When you have finished assembling your wreath, you can lay it in the sun to dry
for a couple weeks, or bring it in the house and hang it to dry.
These wreaths make fine gifts to give to friends and family as is or fixed up with
dried flowers and herbs and ribbons. To learn how to air-dry flowers, please see
my article `How to Air-Dry
Flowers'. These wreaths are great to hang on the front door or on your walls as decorations.
If you don't grow your own grapevine, maybe you have a friend or neighbor
who'd be happy to let you have the trimmings.
Making grapevine wreaths is fun, satisfying and frugal, I hope you'll try it sometime.
Copyright, 2000, Monica Resinger
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