Finally, a crafting post that has something to do with wine!!!! After many, many years of collecting wine corks, I have finally (re)completed my wine cork wreath. I worked on it last year, had it completed, but my method of laying down the corks did not work so well. The next thing I knew I had wine corks falling all over my floor. So about two weeks ago, I took around the remnants of wreath apart and started brand new.
So here's what I did:
Supplies:
- Wine Corks-lots of them
- Hot Glue Gun
- Wreath Form-I've found I'm a big fan of the wooden flat forms. They work great for great for gluing.
- Take two corks, angle them inward in a herringbone pattern. Continue all around the wreath form. I find that it is best to put the glue on the bottom of the cork, then sneak some glue into where it touches other corks.
- Repeat the same herringbone pattern going the opposite direction of the wreath. Be sure to angle the corks to cover any empty spots from the initial ring.
That's it. Seriously-it was that easy. And no worries, I plan on making some trivets out of the next batch of wine corks I save up. Shouldn't take me nearly as long.
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