Wreath Ribbon Sculpture Christmas Holiday Hair Clip Bow Military Braid Diy Free Tutorial By Lacey

Hi and welcome to my new tutorial today, I'm going to show you how to make a Christmas wreath. So what you're going to need is going to be two 24 inch long pieces of 1/8 inch ribbon. Usually I use grosgrain, but I ran completely out of 1/8 inch green grosgrain, so I'm using just a regular satin ribbon, which is okay too, but usually we use grosgrain you're gon na need a 4 inch piece of 3/8 for the bow. So the way you make this is you have to do the military bright and if you don't know how to do a military braid, let me show you so you take one end of your ribbon. You'Re gon na want to ribbons, make sure you've got two ribbons and not the same end of one Rubin. Okay, you're gon na put loops in the end of each of these ribbons and the supplies you're gon na need they're gon na be scissors and a source of fire to seal your ends, which I've already sealed these, but you just simply touch the end of your Ribbon for the flame, be careful not to burn yourself so anyway, you're gon na take it fold this end over and you want to make a small loop. You want it to be big enough for the other ribbon to go through, but you don't want it to be too big. Cuz then handle it funny, but then it really doesn't matter because you're gon na cover that part with a bow eventually so you're gon na need your hot glue gun, of course, luckily got either gives too much or nut come on. Oh too much see. Well, careful not to burn yourself a big old blob of glue ouch do not want that much slip-up there pedal who that stupid, Oh get off me! Okay, anyway, there's one loop, it's very difficult with ribbon this time, but there it is, there's two loops! No, you take you the two ends with your loops. You put one the one in your right hand, through your left hand, now that you pulled it through your through that loop and your other loop is right here now you take the end of this one. Can you go through that loop and then you pull it back tight and you want to pull it tight at the bottom and then down at the top? Don'T pull it all the way through? Because this is your next loop through your next portion of the breaked. So it's more important for it to be tight down here than up here, so you hold that there, then you take this side. I still have glue stuck all to me and you make a loop and you go through that one and after you go through that, when you pull this one time, you want to make sure that this stays over the top now over. Here you have slack. So you want to pull that tight. Keep that loop over there believe me here a minute it'll start to look like a wreath. This loop, when I go on this, set, pull in that side tight then pull on the bottom up. Hold that tight right there pull that ribbon tight. Then you can bring that back down. Get on this side loop through pull it together, take out all the slack up on the back of that ribbon. Pull it down see you have another look loop on this side. Pull it together, careful, don't let the back come to the front once it's together, tighten up this bottom part but pull in the back, and you can pull your loop down and go to the next side loop through pull it together. Take out that bag slack. You can see it starting to take shape together and you can leave it big like that and go on to your next step, but it's always more helpful to pull it right on down much easier with a grosgrain, cuz they're, a little grip. This is a satin ribbon loop in there throw out that slack, tighten it all up, pull it tight and you can see it's starting to make and you just keep on going until you have five inches of this and you don't want to sit here and watch Me continue to leap to braid this, so that's how you do it again loop through tighten it up, take out the slack in the back shorten that loop yeah, you go to the other side. Tighten it up take out that slack and shorten the loop so I'll be back when I have five inches. Okay, I'm back and I've finished with the two 24 inch pieces of ribbon and we end up with a five inch military break so to end your ribbon. I always like to end with the loop going this way, but it's difficult with a this tiny ribbon. If you found my tutorial too difficult to follow because of the tiny ribbon, there's several tutorials on YouTube on how to do the military brain just look at it. Just look military braids so anyway, you're taking this loop. This string right here, lift it up and try to work some glue down in between there. You definitely want to have a precision tip glue gun, but it's still gon na get on there. It'S not really gon na make too big a deal. This end doesn't look perfect again. It helps to have a good glue gun. It counts too much just put a little bit in there fold it back down. You try to work some there. If you can right between those two ribbons put a little bit on there, get it down in there just enough to sticking it down so that nothing happens when you cut this off cut that piece off now, with this side, you can go ahead and cut your Loop and pull out the top piece, it's a little too much cuz you just got ta put some glue right here on top and fold that over and that is a military break. Now see this end always comes out. Looking really bad like this so down here, you can do the same thing. You can put some glue between the ribbons on the end, just to hold everything together, make sure everything is stuck to everything and make sure you know how to do this before you start in on a 1/8 inch ribbon. Try it on 3/8 first, and you can make a wreath out of 3/8. You just want to make your piece longer than 5 inches probably doubled. That yeah probably be too big for a alligator clip at least you'll know how to do it and then, once everything is stuck to everything you can clip off your excess. You wan na heat seal things to make sure they don't fray same thing down here. At this end, you mainly glued everything down with that one right there it's to be keep sealed. Okay know: you've got your five inch piece and I've got glue everywhere now, you're just gon na bend it into a circle, so I'm gon na bend it into a circle and glue those two ends together. I don't worry about it being all weird, because we're gon na fix that she definitely wan na wan na ends up. You don't want to come in sideways. You want to come in end-to-end like this and leave it like that so mutant. Now you can shape it more into a circle, lay it down flat and there's your circle for your wreath. Now you take our four inches of three-eighths inch red ribbon here and I don't have a bow maker, one of the little spiked pieces of cardboard or whatever. So I use an alligator. You just take your ribbon and fold. It awareness style like that straight come. I wear this style hand over and right there. You hold the center and bring this up here until you have back of it, underneath the finger you're holding in the back now just hold it this ribbon. Here I mean with this Clippy yeah. You know it liked it. I take a piece of red. I have just regular white, he says thick thread, it's like button and carpet thread, but I still double it because I'm really pulling real tight on that ribbon. So that's really good and tight. You take three right here and then through underneath and here's where you're gon na need three hands on the back, tie it well, it's in there squeeze it you'll see it make the ribbon, but the tricky part is: if you let go it loosens up so squeeze It really get it just stay on there, pull that off it real tight and hold it like that. One-Handed make you're, not underneath don't let it go because it'll pop out get another loop. It doesn't matter what color this thread you're using is is we're going to cover the center anyway. So there's a though made with a clip and I used four inches of red ribbon. You can use bigger pieces of ribbon. If you want bigger, fuller, bow yeah, you can either put something in the middle or we can cover it with another small piece of ribbon, we'll grab some 1/8 just a little piece you can use whatever color matches we're just covering this. I think this I want to be a tutorial in its own little bit of glue in the middle cover up that string back trim it down one side, there, that's a down, that's set up and you have a little bone. Yeah like I said. If you wanted that to be bigger, you could have made it bigger. If you want pointy tails cut your tails out the angles completely messed it up. Just a heat sail if you cut anything, come for the race, so put some glue right there on your bow. That covered up all of that ends the start and the finish of the military bright sure it stays a little circle and that's it. You want to decorate it with some little jewels or some bells tiny little bells or whatever you want to put on it. There'S your wreath and partially line an alligator clip. You glue it right on there and you have a miniature wreath. But the most important part of this tutorial is to know that to make this miniature wreath, you're going to need five inches of military braid which to make five inches of military braid with one-eighth inch ribbon, you need to twenty-four inch pieces to start with. So that's it! Thank you for watching and please subscribe I'll, have more tutorials on the way.