DIY Rustic Valentine Wreath with Yarn and hearts

Like I mentioned earlier, my wreath foam was homemade, I made it for my Rustic Christmas Wreath and you can find the tutorial to make one there if you want to save some money too!

Start wrapping the wreath foam with the burlap ribbon.

Secure the ends with twine. I do it like this because I will be using the wreath foam and the burlap in the future so I don’t want to damage either of them.

Cover about 70% of the wreath.

Then I wrapped the other 30% with yarn overlapping the burlap on both ends.

A few loops later wrapping the wreath form

When I reached the other end of the yarn, I cut my yarn and tucked the yarn end into the loops.

My wreath base is ready!

Then I moved on to the fun part.

I made some hand-drawn Hearts in different sizes all over my piece of cardboard. I cut them the best I could.

Alternatively, you can use foam hearts and skip this step.

Using my pink, white and red yarn I wrapped each heart. Some in one color and some I mixed twine and yarn. I end up using one mixed.

Just make loops in random directions until you cover the entire heart and make it look puffy.

When you finish, cut the yarn and tuck it underneath other tarn strings.

Keep wrapping Hearts and you will get something like this:

Then using the same technique I used for my Christmas Pompom Garland, I made some pompoms with those same yarns, white, pink and red.

This time I just made the tie string a lot longer so I could use it to tie each pompom to the wreath.

Once I had enough hearts and pompoms, I made my LOVE word with the wood hearts.

I prepared my pink chalk paint color and painted 2 hearts with pink and 2 hearts with white.

Let it dry.

In the meantime, I prepared the stencil.

Since the letters were so close one to the other I isolated the letters L, O, V and E using masking tape.

If you have pieces of vinyl is good too.

Once the hearts were dry, I put my stencil on top of the heart as centered as I could and painted them.

Removed the stencil and placed it on the next heart. On white hearts I used my pink paint and vice-versa.

Let them dry.

So, now that I have all the pieces done, I started the fun decoration.

This part is completely up to each person. You might want it all at the bottom or on the side like me, even on top. But I wanted the decor mostly on the side.

I put my first pompom about in the middle of the white yarn part.

I placed each pompom where I wanted them to be and then using the ties I made a knot and a bow on the back. Later I would adjust the size and cut any excess.

{Side Note: Use only yarn with the same color as your wreath base for pompom ties… learned the hard way and too late!}

I made my trial and error about how much of the wreath would be covered with pompoms so I eventually removed some at the end.

I wanted the hearts to follow both ends of pompoms so using a bodkin {or a safety pin}. So, I inserted one end of a string of yarn and inserted it through some strings from the back of my heart to have something to tie them to the wreath.

Just like I did with the pompoms I tied 3 hearts to the right towards the top of the wreath and only one on the other side of the pompoms.

For the heart garland, I cut a long string of twine, about 40 cm, and tied it right behind the last heart.

Again, if you don’t plan on using the materials again you can just use a hot glue gun. I just tied it to the wreath behind the heart.

Did the same on the other side. I decided where to finish my banner and using a smaller heart I tied the twine and the heart to the wreath.

The final touch was hanging my cute LOVE hearts! I used pink and red mini clothespins. Folding the heart strings I secure each heart to the twine with clothespins.

There you go! A super cute Valentine’s Day Rustic Yarn Wreath!

Finally, with a twine strip, I hang it the door using a wreath door hanger.