Here's what you need:
14" Plastifoam Wreath
2 yds Felt (one color)
1 yd Felt (another color)
Ink Pad
Jar Lid (for stamping)
Straight pins
Ribbon
Here's what you do:
Get you a large amount of felt that you will spend hours cutting circles out of. Just kidding! Ok..I'm not kidding. I think I bought about 2 yards of blue and 1 yard of cream felt. I didn't end up using it all, but I wanted to be sure to have enough. I took a lid from my salsa jar to use as my guide. I happened to have this blue ink pad already so it kind of just worked out! I took the lid and stamped blue circles as close
together as possible all across the blue felt. I recommend an ink color close to the color of your felt so you don't see the ink on the edges if you don't cut exactly right. Then I started to cut the circles out. I cut and cut and cut and cut. I think I cut around 300 - 350 circles out of the blue felt.I didn't have a guide for the cream felt, but I just folded it in half and cut out some circles a little larger than the blue circles. This did take me a couple of hours all together...but it isn't as bad as it seams. Just cut on a movie (one you've already
seen is probably recommended so you don't miss anything!) and just start cutting. I don't recommend having snacks all around you either. You'll find that you've eaten the whole jar of M&M's by the time you get done cutting if you aren't careful. I'm not saying that's what I did....I'm just sayin'. So I cut out my hundreds of blue felt circles and my handful of cream felt circles a little larger than the blue. I thought I'd make a section that sticks out a little further than the blue and popped, hence the cream!Once you've got a substantial
amount of felt circles cut out...start pinning them onto the wreath! I got a 14" plastifoam wreath from Michael's. They are usually about $5.99...but I always use a 40% off coupon. So now what you do is take the felt circle and fold it in half...and then in half again. Stick a straight pin through the folded corner and pop that bad boy right into the wreath. I pinned them all pretty close together to make sure it looked full. I didn't want to see any of the green wreath between my ruffles. And repeat this until you run out of felt circles or until your wreath 
is full, which ever happens first. If you run out of circles before your wreath is full...you guessed it, you must cut out more circles! I recommend pinning your larger circles of a different color on first so then you can fill in the rest all around it and complete the rest of your wreath.After I pinned them all in and ruffled it up a bit, it was a masterpiece! I decided it needed a little something extra so I decided to add a bow beneath my cream circle and I used that same ribbon to hang the wreath.
I folded the end of the ribbon and pinned it onto the back of the wreath.Hang that puppy up and BAM! You are the envy of all your neighbors! Sidenote: After removing my spring wreath after hanging outside for several months...I noticed that it was a hotbed for tiny little pests. Mainly spiders. Yuck! Most of them were dead no doubt from the horrible Florida heat...but still. I don't even want to touch dead spiders. I didn't want to store the wreath with dead bugs on it though. So I took my
handy vacuum cleaner and sucked all the yuck off of my beautimus wreath and voila! Brand new again. Just be careful to not suck up one of your felt circles in the vacuum cleaner. I mean, they are only pinned on...not cemented!
I decided to do this same 'motif' for my 4th of July wreath but with regular fabric and squares this time. So I hopped over to Joann's and bought 1/2 yard of red, white & blue fabric (each)....1.5 yards total. I cut 3" squares out of all the colors and did the same routine as above....pinned on fabric in random order until I was tired of pinning. And poof! You have a firework of beautiful patriotic colors bursting from your front door!
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