How to Make a 21in Deco Mesh Ruffle Wreath |Fused 21in Deco Mesh Ruffle

[Music] hey I'm Lori welcome to my Channel today we're going to be doing a really fun method with 21 in mesh a lot of us have 21in mesh kind of hanging around so this method is actually going to be we're going to do Ruffles with 21 in mesh and we're going to be using a method from Julie's wreath Boutique to to fuse it together I will kind of show you how you can do it if you don't want to do that but I was thinking this would probably work really well for this method so I'm going to use a work wreath so this is just a wreath frame that comes with the ties already on it now if you were going to do it with a Dollar Tree or a different wreath frame then you would need to put the ties on yourself so I do 10 on the bottom eight on the top if you're not sure how to do that I do have a video showing how to add ties to the Dollar Tree wreath and it is on my channel in the wreath making for beginners okay so I'm going to go ahead and open these up because when we do get our mesh together I don't want to have to come back and do this okay so just like we normally do we're going to pull our mesh out and I'm going to cut it at 20 in so if you want to do an entire wreath then 20 in is what you want to cut it at because there are 360 in and to get 18 cut them at 20 in so I'm just going to cut them there's nothing special about this I'm just going to cut them using my rotary cutter it is definitely better than using scissors for one it's a lot faster and second thing is it's going to cause a lot less damage to the mesh so I'll cut this up real quick and then we'll get started on how we're going to do it okay so to do this you're going to need a wood burning tool these are really inexpensive uh and it does not take a ton longer to do the mesh but I do suggest you use something like the hot shot to put it on because it will fall and burn your carpet or you so only touch the area that is in the plastic this up here gets hot quick I like this tip it has kind of a little hook on it but any of the tips work there'll be a link for it in the description it's you can get it from Walmart and you can get it from Amazon okay so it kind of rests down there in the little hot shot and you're going to need a temp glass cutting board so there'll be a link in the description for these I suggest that you get the one that's not textured because otherwise you would have to flip it over and then you would have to deal with the little pieces that keep it raised up so I do suggest that you get just the plain one non-tempered I mean non-textured okay okay so if you don't want to use the wood burner this is how you're going to do it you're going to take your mesh and you're going to kind of have a little bit of an edge okay like this so you could kind of push it down all right because you don't want to see phrase so you see how I kind of have it tucked under here on both sides it can be a little tricky so kind of get it together like this clip it off that way you can kind of work your way down I think you see why I would like to try doing the wood burning because you really do have to do this or you're going to see frays on your mesh all right so clip all right clip and clip all right then you're going to fold it in half like that then you can take your Clips off and you're going to go right up just like we normally do with a ruffle okay so this is the 21in ruffle the 21in ruffle is going to have one that's closed one that's open so then you're going to take your wreath frame and you're going to put it down just like we normally do right in the middle and so what I normally do is I will alternate so on this side I'm going to put an open end on this side I'm going to put a closed end and then you'll get more of the ruffle effect okay let's do one using the wood burner so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and flip it over like this get my ends together then I'm going to take my wood burner and I'm just going to go right down and fuse them together so this is going to be a huge time saer don't think my tool was quite ready but all right so look this okay we're going to do that again you'll see it better but as you can see it is now fused together okay so it's not going to fray it's not going to look bad all right let's do the other side okay just like that now both sides are fused so I can just flatten it I'm going to fold it over just like this and I'm going to go straight up the center okay so you can see I now have my open end and my closed end but I like this better because I actually have kind of two pieces of my closed end so it looks more like an actual ruffle and you don't have to tuck it under because you don't have to worry about it fraying so let's do that a couple more times so that you can see it again but you see since these are open there's two pieces of it instead of just one piece I think it looks a lot more like an actual ruffle so this is just doing this method in a different way okay so so normally we fold it like this and do it up but what we're doing is we're Folding It top to bottom okay and we're welding the edges together at Julie's Ruth has a lot of different examples of fusing mesh together if you want to see some others okay I believe the noble touch does as well so I got this end let's do this end I'm just taking off not even maybe a quarter of an inch so it's really not going to make any significance with the ruffle okay this mesh has the little snow and Edge in it but you can see you can still use the fuse technique with this even with the little snow okay now we're going to fold it in half okay go right up the center and there we have see how we have two pieces here all right we go we put it down now doesn't that look like a ruffle I think that looks like a ruffle and since it's doubled up it's much thicker and so it's really going to cover the frame very well okay so let's do it one more time and then I'll do the bottom and we're going to do the top the same way but I will show you at least one or two just to kind of go over it again okay so top to bottom right so you have your finished edges top to bottom okay just kind of line it up and then you just want to go in a couple okay let the wood burner do its little tricks just remember always use the tempered glass because it will burn everything it will burn your table it will burn you it will burn your mat so just make sure you pick up one of these and you should be good to go see how I just go over just a little bit pull it down so it's singing those edges and fusing it together so you can see it's almost like a pocket okay then we fold it up so we're have we'll have our Woodburn Edge to Woodburn Edge and then we just make our little ruffle okay so you can see two on this side and two on this side Okay so I'll finish doing these and I do pull them up and have them kind of go against each other but you can see the difference okay so this is the normal way it's done this is the fused way so you can see I think it looks way more like a ruffle okay so I finished the bottom I did want to give you a couple of extra tips okay so when you meet the two finished edges together flip it over and fuse starting at your folded end it makes it easier just come in a little bit just take your time going down if you see any edges that you don't like just run back over them there we go okay let's do the other side I think this works a lot better so if I see any edges sticking out I just kind of run my little tool right past it okay this seems to work a lot better than starting from the bottom all right so folded Edge just go in a couple so I go in about this much and then run it down that works very well so you can see how I have a few that have little edges I just run the burner down it and that gets rid of those all right so second tip when you fold it over you're going to make the ruffle from the fused Edge so you want to make the Ruffle from The Edge where you fused it so you just go straight up making your ruffle okay and then we're going to put it on the top just like we did on the bottom but look how pretty this is coming out I love it with this mesh this mesh is so pretty okay so let's do one more all right so flip it over get it lined up go from the folded Edge see I go in just a couple just a little don't stress if it's not perfectly straight you're not going to be able to tell okay okay same thing on the other side now if you have a bag sealer you could do the same exact thing with your bag sealer you would just fold it over and then put it in the bag sealer I do think the bag sealer takes a little longer but it is an option okay so fold it over go to the fused Edge and this time I'm going to use my tool so I'm just going to load it in my tool and then just go straight up okay pull it out so you definitely can use the tool with the 21 in mesh I kind of wanted to show you both ways all right I'm going to go ahead and finish up the top and then I'll come back and we'll finish this up okay so we completed it so let's take a look at it I think thiss looks so pretty look at that see how full that is is that just looks so pretty I especially love it with this mesh but this is a super cool method okay now we're going to add some ribbons and our wreath attachment so I made this wreath attachment for my Design Group and I thought it would look so cute in here and I think it really does okay so I have a few little Valentine's ribbons here I think we'll do these two and do these two so I'm going to do 12 in ribbons okay I think I'm only going to do the bottom because the wreath attachment is pretty large and I think it would overshadow ribbons on the top so we'll do 12 in so we'll need five we may do a couple up top we'll [Music] see okay I do want to dovetail them so I just fold them in half and cut up towards the wired Edge just like that I like to do mine two at a time it just saves time [Music] okay so now we're going to take our ribbons and we're just going to alternate so let me put this guy aside so we just take it fold it in half pinch it in the middle and then I like to run my hands under it and we'll tie it in and then I just tend to kind of twist my ties together like that okay there we go just going to go all the way around alternating the ribbon tails and then we'll do the same thing on the [Music] top he I'm going to do the top as well so if it does kind of cover it up I think that'll be okay I'm going to spread them out we may have to move them a little bit when we put our little guy on or our little girl [Music] so we've gotten all the ribbon on and just a couple things to note the mesh is lifted up against each other just kind of pull back like this just to make sure it's going to stand up the ribbons on the top I spread out and the ribbons on the bottom I tend to keep together now you can spread them out once you get everything on but while you're putting the top on will tend to want to crush down so I don't generally do anything until the end I do have some fun things to put in it I have some of these really cute hearts from the Dollar Tree so those are so cute I think we're just going to use the pink and the red and of course this so as you can see it has two places where it has the ties in the back and the back and the front are covered the instructions included the shoes the arms and everything I did make this exclusively in my Design Group so if you wanted to learn how to make breath attachments you can join to do that you can watch them on Facebook or on YouTube not both but you can do one or the other if you want to join it on YouTube you just go to the memberships on my channel okay so I'm going to take this top tie I'm just going to go around this is an extra long pipe cleaner I'm going to go around here okay so you can see where I'm going to tie it right here and I could actually probably tie the bottom from here as well so you always want to go to the frame that's why I'm using extra long um pipe cleaners and like that so I'll just tuck it in all right okay oh he is so cute right so I might need to adjust a few ribbons around him okay then we'll put in some of the cute little hearts there we go okay there all right oh my gosh is he cute okay so let's get our little hearts out [Music] I did see the Dollar Tree also has some little cupcakes as well those are cute you could use something like that any candy related things they have up there I really kind of wanted to stick with hearts because that's kind of the theme of this all right okay I'm just going to trim all these off because I certainly don't need this much I only need a couple inches now when I do my ties I tend to do them so that they end up in a little circle and then I can take any little embellishments and I can glue it into that little circle because because it's going to glue to the actual tie itself that's what it'll stick to so I just get some glue on it and I put it right through that hole and make sure it's in there I'm might have to adjust my ribbons a little that'll kind of alternate see how I just kind of put it right down in in there I will be making more wreath attachments this year that's one of the things that I'll be adding into my group just to give people additional options of things to make and of course things to sell there we go okay then we'll put a few up here [Music] there we go oh my gosh let's look at this it's so cute there he is okay you can see that it's not going to come off look how cute that is so you would never know this is 21 inch mesh would you isn't he adorable okay so let's make a bow I'm not going to put a bow on the wreath but just to have a bow okay so we're going to start with this really pretty one let's do about a 12 in tail and I'll go ahead and dub tail it so pick it up fold it in half and cut up towards that wired Edge okay so 12 in so I put them down sideways in the bow maker and then I twist on the side that I'm going to be making the loop you can go down to the place that you want to start your Loop or the length of your Loop you can actually put your finger there if you're worried about it getting off okay and then I go sideways again and I twist so this side this side stays the same this side twist over so you can see it's on the wrong side this is the right side so again go down Twist on this side okay so you just keep doing this over and over I'm going to make three at this size okay so on the last one you don't twist it you just put it down pull it out trim off and dve tail okay all right so see these are all 6 in Loops let's do two of this one so I can measure out my Tails maybe a little bit longer just cuz I tend to curl these okay then I'll do 6 in again and what I can do is either kind of hover over and see where that 6 in is or I can measure it to the other Loops again we twist in the middle on the side we're going to be making the loop until we get to the last one and then we don't twist we just pull it out okay trim it off okay and we're going to put one Loop of this in right so we did three Loops at six two Loops at six now we're doing one Loop okay so I only had to twist this one once okay then I can put a little bit of pink on top so probably like an 18inch tail I'm going to make these a little bit smaller so maybe like 5 in or 4 and a half and so it's harder to see the board so what I can do is pull these up and make sure they meet in the middle and I'm going to do three Loops of this so the Tails will end up being on the same side but that's okay we can move them okay then I'm going to get a zip tie I'm going to run it under one side all the way under make sure you're under all the ribbon just get it started and then use that to pull it out of the bow maker okay then you want to hold it lightly on one side and slide that zip tie around okay and then what I do is I tend to flatten it and make sure that zip tie is in that channel from the bow maker and I'll start to tighten it I'm just rechecking before it's completely tight I want to put my pipe cleaner wire zip tie whatever you want to use under it and then I'm going to tighten it up really well okay so if you do it this way your Loops should come out the same size the trick is to make sure that they stay in that channel okay then I'm going to pull my ribbons apart this is part of my fluffing process and so pull them apart basically get them where you want them you see how having the three in the middle is really cute okay then I'll just kind of hold it and start twisting so all you're doing is breaking it from the center and allowing it to fluff out Fuller now if you use the zip tie it's not going to come loose don't be afraid to do this step it does make a big difference in how your bow looks okay there we go so if you see any little pieces that are kind of stuck down in there just pull them out doing that that fluffing is going to allow you to pull those out okay just like that now I can curl this up using my thumbs so I just put my thumb inside here and I just kind of walk it up using my thumbs you can use a dowel if that's easier I find this to be pretty easy then you just pull it out lightly okay there we go there and I can trim off my zip tide and I have my bow let's take a look at it okay so you can see our wreath in the back and here is our bow how cute is that so see you could put it down here but I really don't want to cover his legs so I'm just going to leave this separate so we usually put one on our mailbox or on the Rock and chair on our front porch so I hope you enjoyed this make sure to like And subscribe and leave a comment and if you want to know when I'm going live or uploading new content make sure you hit that Bell icon so that you'll be notified when I am going live or I've uploaded something new all right y'all have a great one thank y'all so much for watching bye y'all [Music]