{"id":18344,"date":"2013-05-02T06:03:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18344"},"modified":"2013-04-23T07:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:34:49","slug":"easy-yarn-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=18344","title":{"rendered":"Easy Yarn Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yarnwreath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yarnwreath-130x150.jpg\" alt=\"Yarn Wreath\" width=\"130\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/><\/a>I ran into this wreath in a BHG <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhg.com\/halloween\/indoor-decorating\/halloween-door-decor-28-great-ideas\/\">slideshow<\/a> of outdoor decorating ideas (incidentally, the spider wreath at that link is pretty neat too).  Their method involves wrapping styrofoam balls in yarn and then hot-gluing them to a wire wreath form, which strikes me as overly complicated.<\/p>\n<p>An even easier approach would to be to bend some wire (such as from a coathanger) into a circle and thread balls of yarn onto it.  Tape the ends of the wire together and cover the join with a pretty ribbon.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a crafter you probably have leftover yarn laying around which would be perfect for this project.  It&#8217;d be easy to make several of these as gifts, and the construction is simple enough that kids could help out.<\/p>\n<p>A wall full of wreaths might be an attractive way to store yarn as well; it&#8217;d be out of the way and you could find the color you need at a glance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran into this wreath in a BHG slideshow of outdoor decorating ideas (incidentally, the spider wreath at that link is pretty neat too). Their method involves wrapping styrofoam balls in yarn and then hot-gluing them to a wire wreath form, which strikes me as overly complicated. An even easier approach would to be to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18344"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18357,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18344\/revisions\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}