Life & Style

Garlands for Fall

Get your gourds off the ground and present them in a new light as garlands for fall.

garlands for fall

Ingredients

  • 9 gourds of various colors and shapes
  • MATERIALS:
  • Long heavy-gauge needle
  • Heavy-gauge
  • fishing line
  • Hammer
  • Nails
  • Six 1-yard-long
  • pieces of ribbon

Instructions

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1. Drive the heavy-gauge needle threaded with heavy-duty fishing line through the gourds, using a hammer to tap it through if there is too much resistance. Leave 6 inches of fishing line at each end.

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2. Attach the garland to the wall using nails, and tie three pieces of ribbon to each end of the garland to conceal any exposed fishing line.

 

Excerpted from The Wreath Recipe Book by Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2014. Photographs by Paige Green.

The Wreath Recipe Book

by Amy Anderson

From the authors of the widely popular Flower Recipe Book,and in the same successful format, The Wreath Recipe Book provides 100 “recipes” to make with flowering and leafy branches. These aren’t just evergreens for Christmas—the book is organized seasonally, with dozens of projects to make throughout the year.In the spring, a cherry blossom bough gets a touch of whimsy with a colorful ribbon, and a tabletop is adorned with lilacs and olive branches.

 

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