My DIY Double Hoop Embroidered Evergreen Christmas Wreath is easy to stitch, so perfect for the embroidery beginner, and it makes for beautiful DIY Holiday Décor or the perfect handmade gift when completed.
This Embroidered Double Hoop Evergreen Christmas Wreath is the perfect holiday embroidery project, even for the embroidery beginner / beginner sewers. If you're on the hunt for DIY embroidered gifts and embroidery projects for the holiday season, this is definitely one to add to your list! Even if you've never assembled a double hoop, our step by step imagery below, will help you make a double embroidery hoop wreath, in a cinch (it literally takes under 10 minutes to assemble!). The pictured double hoop embroidery wreath uses a 16" embroidery hoop and a 6" embroidery hoop, though you can use any size embroidery hoops you'd like; bigger or smaller. Overall, this took me about 3 days (a few hours here and there) to complete, and all in, it costs about $12 in supplies.
Read on for a full supply list and our easy step by step tutorial (including how to make a double embroidery hoop) below.
Estimated Time Needed: 12 hours
- Scissors
- Embroidery needle
- Embroidery floss in your choice of various shades of green, brown (for branch tips /branches etc.) and burgundy (or another color) for the bow. The amount of each color needed will vary depending on the size of the hoops that you choose etc.
- 2 Pipe cleaners
- 2 Varying sized embroidery hoops (for the pictured double hoop embroidered Christmas wreath I used a 16" hoop and a 6" hoop - though you can use any size hoops that you'd prefer -larger or smaller - your choice!)
- Base fabric in a color of your choice. I used ivory linen for the pictured Embroidered Evergreen Double Hoop Christmas Wreath. The size of the fabric needed with vary depending on the size of the hoops that you choose.
- Optional: felt (sized to cover the back of your hoop wreath.) and low temp hot glue gun / low temp hot glue sticks to finish off the back of your wreath.
- Assemble the fabric in your embroidery hoops to create your double hoop. If you haven't ever assembled a double hoop - refer to imagery above on how to assemble a double embroidery hoop wreath - note once fabric is secured in both hoops continue to pull tight/taught prior to gluing the fabric to the back inside of the inner hoop. Don't glue the fabric from the larger / outer hoop until your are completely finished stitching/finished your wreath and the fabric has been pulled tightly.
- Now, start stitching! In all honesty, I just randomly stitched as I went … I looked at some random pictures of greenery and tried to replicate them using a needle and thread. I generally made one large central straight stitch for each branch and then several small backstitches that overlapped slightly (in a V, starting smaller at the top and gradually getting larger at the base) over top of the large central straight stitch. I wasn't incredibly uniform about how I was stitching either, because tree branches aren't super uniform. Each one is unique! I added small bits of light brown/caramel colored embroidery floss(using one to three small back stitches) - to the tips of each of the darker green branches - to create the look of branch tips.
- To create the bow, I twisted two red pipe cleaners into a bow shape /form, and layered it over top of the evergreen stitching (top center). Then, I simply stitched over top of the pipe cleaner form (repetitively, back and forth, using a straight stitch) until the entire pipe cleaner bow form was uniformly covered in burgundy embroidery floss. This created the fun 3-D look for the wreath's bow.
- I finished the back off by affixing felt using low-temp hot glue (to cover the exposed back stitching.) However, this is an optional step.
- Hang and enjoy your completed double hoop Embroidered Evergreen Christmas wreath and enjoy. OR gift it to someone special!
