DIY Feather Wreath

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This gorgeous feather wreath is the perfect accessory to adorn your mantel or front door this Christmas! The dark green feathers are absolutely beautiful and will accent your Christmas tree and Christmas decorations with perfection! Easy to construct and inexpensive to create, if you can push pins into styrofoam, you can have this amazing and sophisticated feather wreath ready to show off this holiday season!

green feather wreath hanging on round mirror - Christmas wreath

Don’t you just love this gorgeous baby hanging over my fireplace? I cannot get enough of it, I catch myself walking through the living room just to stare! It looks 10x better in real life than in these pictures! For some reason, the ribbon looks bright red, and the feathers look like the bright green stands out but in real life, they look as if they are just dark green and dark red!

I tied it with a different ribbon to see if it would photograh better but it really didn’t! Lol! I love it with both ribbons!

Green feather wreath with red ribbon for Christmas

I wish you could see the richness of these feathers in the pictures that I can see in real life! The deep green is gorgeous!

Dark green feather wreath hanging on round black mirror

What I really can’t get over is how easy it was to make, and yet I almost bought the one from Anthropologie for 79 dollars because I thought feathers would be too hard to work with but come to find out, it was the easiest wreath I have ever made!

Dark green feather wreath hanging over fireplace

Gathering Supplies for the DIY Feather Wreath

All in all this wreath only cost me 24 bucks! I mean less than a third of the Anthro one and I have tons of feathers left over to make other Christmas decor with!

Materials Needed for Feather Wreath:

18″ foam wreath form
3 – strands of feathers
sewing pins
ribbon to hang the wreath – I bought my ribbon at Hobby Lobby but couldn’t find it online, the one I linked was closest to it!
chunky yarn – or you can use anything you have on hand to make the wreath form thicker – grab it at Walmart or Hobby Lobby it is way cheaper than Amazon!

If you LOVE making wreaths as I do check out all these other wreath ideas I have for Christmas and winter! This Christmas Winter Wreath is metal rings and uber classy! This Winter Village Wreath is my upmost favorite front door wreath simply because it is fun and colorful! Add these ice skates to any wreath or swag to have decor that can stay up even after Christmas!

Making the DIY Feather Wreath

This is seriously the EASIEST wreath I have ever made, and yet it may be my absolute favorite wreath I have ever made! The sophistication of the deep green feathers is just unreal!

To get started, just a quick note, I used the sewing pin and not the floral pins because the floral pins were 1.75 inches long and that would poke through if you didn’t get them perfectly centered and keep the ‘legs’ close together! The sewing version is only 1″ long so they are much easier to work with!

Making the Wreath Form Thicker

Grab your supplies, and wrap the foam in the chunky yarn to make the feather wreath fatter! If you want a really thin feather wreath, you can skip this step but I started without adding the yarn and I wasn’t liking the wreath, it looked far too skinny! Once I added the yarn, I felt it was proportioned properly!

Here is the wreath before adding the yarn, just so you can get an idea of the difference!

feather wreath before adding yarn to make it thicker

Once I realized that it was too thin, I just wrapped the wreath form in the chunky yarn, you can really use anything here that you have laying around, I had this yarn left over from when I made this really cute Wooden Deer, and it had gotten some stains while in my closet so why not use it for something where it won’t even be seen! Lol!

To get the wrap started, you can overlap it on itself or you can use a pin! I just overlapped it because I wasn’t sure how many pins I was going to need for the feathers!

adding yarn to make the feather wreath thicker

I just wrapped the whole wreath form, using a pin every quarter of the wreath pretty much!

wrapping the wreath form in yarn to make the feather wreath fatter

Keep wrapping!

wrapping the wreath form in yarn to make it thicker

Adding the Feathers to the Wreath

Now, this is where my phone ran out of storage and quit recording unannounced to me! LOL! So this was as far as the wrapping went on the wreath on camera, but I kept going and started wrapping feathers and pinning them. This is where I stopped because I ran out of feathers, and then realized the camera hadn’t been recording! UGH!

adding feathers to the wreath form to make a feather wreath for christmas

Since I didn’t record the whole start of the wreath, I will just show you, imagine the wreath form is wrapped in the yarn already in the pic below! This is such an EASY process! The feathers are on a 2 yard strand like so!

feather strand for making the feather wreath

I took them and wrapped them around the form to measure, pinch the strand where they meet, and cut it! That EASY!

Keep hold with your right hand so you know where to cut!

cutting the feather strand to add to the feather wreath

Once you have your piece cut, wrap it around the form and then flip the form over. Push the pin into the form making sure to catch both ends of the strand of feathers!

pinning the feather strand to the wreath form

You will never know if they don’t meet on the back, just make sure the pin goes into both ends of the strand!

showing the pin in the wreath form to hold the feathers

You legit just continue this process from the starting point (which is anywhere you want) to the very end! Add one on top of that one making sure they overlap well! Knowing now that I had probably three or four extra rows left over, I would move them slightly closer together than I did! It will keep any of the brighter green from showing through!

adding more feathers to the DIY feather wreath

Once you get back around to the starting point, you will gently need to move the row of feathers out of your way so you can put the last row of feathers under the first row!

moving feathers out of the way to add last row of feathers

Check it over to make sure your DIY feather wreath has no bare spots! You will have a foot or two left over that you can use if you have any bare spots!

Add a ribbon to hang it with!

adding a velvet ribbon to the feather wreath

Hang this beautiful baby wherever you want it and ENJOY looking at it!

Green Feather Wreath with Red Velvet Ribbon

I LOVE it! I swear in person it is way prettier! I found a different strand of feathers (affiliate link) I may try though just so there isn’t any differentiation in the green color but they are stiffer and so I am not sure if they will lay correctly or stick straight out! Lol! I will update you if I try them and let you all know!

I have been having a good time making my holiday wreaths! Are you making any wreaths this holiday season? Let me know in the comments below and make sure and share photos with me if you make this DIY feather wreath, I always love seeing your projects!

Thanks for stopping by!