Fall Craft: Upcycled Quilt Wreath With Dollar Tree Flowers

I love vintage handmade quilts, and I’ve been trying to come up with a project idea for a quilt I have on the workshop shelf. After bringing home some flower stems and greenery from Dollar Tree, inspiration finally struck.

Always remember when reading through one of my upcycled or repurposed projects that often, the items used in my projects can be substituted for things you have at home or find at the thrift store. Please take these ideas and do your own thing!

This is the vintage quilt. It isn’t in very good shape, but it’s clean. I washed it a few months ago in anticipation of a project.

When I walked into Dollar Tree this week, I spotted the pretty fall-colored flower stems. I also bought the “velvet” pumpkin, but it won’t be making an appearance in this project.

I’ve recycled the green wreath form several times to make seasonal wreaths. I think it came from Dollar Tree, too.

I used my Ryobi battery-powered glue gun, scissors, and wire plyers or cutters for this project.

The first step was to cut several strips of fabric from the quilt. I tried to pick out areas with pretty designs and colors.

Then, I started wrapping the quilt strips around the wreath form and securing them with hot glue on the wreath’s backside.

This is how the wreath looked on my first try. You can see places where the fabric is lumped up or a little loose around the wreath form. I went back and smoothed out the lumps and tightened up the fabric.

Next, I used my wire pliers to snip the orange flowers and the blue leaf stems into single stems and then hot-glued them to the wreath.

I tried to place the floral stems in a nice-looking asymmetrical design.

I burnt one of my fingertips when applying the hot glue. I use anything handy, like the end of wire pliers, the head of scissors, etc., to press the hot-glued edges together, but sometimes my fingertips still get involved. After using hot glue for several years, I probably have no fingerprints left.

I hung the quilt-wrapped wreath with the pretty flowers on the amazing auction chest I shared with you all a week or so ago. I still haven’t come up with a paint plan for the chest of drawers. To hang the wreath, I hot-glued a loop of jute string to the top backside of the wreath. 

The orange flowers were highlighted with a yellowish-gold color on the tips of some of the blooms. The two-tone colors gave the flowers a richer, more expensive look. 

This was a quick, fun project. I’m sure it could have been much neater if I had taken more time, but it looks good just like it is.

This is the perfect Fall wreath. I love the colors and the repurposed quilt. What do you think? Do you like it, love it, or hate it? Thanks for being here, Kathy