Make a topping-out wreath yourself

If you make your topping-out wreath yourself, you can determine the quality of the materials, the size and the appearance of the wreath yourself.

Make the blank yourself

1. Take copper or steel wire the length you need for the size of your wreath and form a ring out of it.
2. Gradually wrap this wire ring with straw, which you then fix with floral wire.
3. Keep wrapping layers of straw around the wreath until it is at least 5 to 7 cm in cross-section.

So it becomes a topping-out wreath

1. The green for your wreath should be between 4 and 6 inches long.


Tinker topping wreath

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2. From the green, tie together small tufts that contain 2 to 4 branches (depending on the thickness).
3. Now apply these bundles clockwise one after the other and overlapping on the wreath blank.
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4. Each tuft is fixed with floral wire.
5. Remember that you have to completely wrap your topping wreath in green. Make sure you have enough branches so that it is nice and dense.
6. Of course, you can also work in dried flowers or small branches with colored berries between the green.
7. Once the wreath is tied, you can either wrap it with ribbons or tie long, fluttering ribbons around the wreath.
8. To be able to hang up the topping-out wreath, you now have to tie 4 solid cords to the wreath. The ribbons should be knotted well on each quarter so that the wreath does not hang crooked later.
9. Now tie the straps at the end with a tight knot and nothing stands in the way of attaching the topping-out wreath you made yourself.

Since you make the topping-out wreath yourself, you can decide which size and which material and, above all, which one Colours You use.