Hello and welcome if you are new here! This is my second year participating in the 12 days of Christmas blog hop and I am excited to do so again.  On this first day of Christmas, we are sharing some DIY wreaths with you. This year I made this adorable finger knitted Christmas wreath.

You can find the tutorial below, and at the bottom of the post check out all the wonderful wreaths from the many talented bloggers we have joining us for this blog hop.

If you want to see what I have posted for the other days, follow these links:

• Day 2 – 30 Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas
• Day 3 – Rustic Christmas Advent Calendar
• Day 4 – Paper Christmas Cookies Kid’s Craft
• Day 5 – Cream Cheese Christmas Tree with Crackers and Pepper Jelly
• Day 6 – DIY Wooden Bead Feather Ornament
• Day 7 – White Village Christmas Mantel
• Day 8 – Christmas Morning Muffins in a Jar
• Day 9 – Simple Hand Embroidered Gift Tags
• Day 10 – Blush and Rose Gold Christmas Tree
• Day 11 – Homemade Snickers Bars
• Day 12 – Knitted Christmas Stockings

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Welcome to Day 1 of the Fourth Annual 12 Days of Christmas Series!

We have teamed up with 50 plus bloggers to bring you a oodles of DIY ideas and recipes to make your holiday season merrier. There are 12 different posts in the series and we have spread them out over a four week period with three posts per week. Now is the time to subscribe!

GO HERE for the complete list of Dates and Topics plus a collection of the most popular holiday ideas including ornaments, games, recipes and more from all 50 plus talented bloggers!

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I recently became obsessed acquainted with finger knitting! It is such a fun, fast and easy way to knit. There are so many possibilities of what you could do with it. My first project was a finger knitted yarn pumpkin which turned out super cute! If you don’t know how to finger knit, you will want to check out that post so you can make this wreath. I have a video in it that shows you exactly how to finger knit. Once you know how, the sky is the limit!

In addition to the pumpkin, this wreath was another idea that immediately popped into my head and I knew I would be making one for Christmas.

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For this project you will need:

• 18″ Wreath Form
• Lion Brand Hometown USA Yarn – Los Angeles Tan, 2 skeins
• Scissors
• Satin Ribbon
• Ornaments

I was lucky enough to find this wreath form at the thrift store for $2! Don’t rule out the thrift stores for your crafting! You could really use any type of wreath form for this wreath, but this willow type allowed me to not have to use hot glue. I like that in case I want to disassemble the wreath in the future and reuse the wreath form. 😉

I used the same kind of yarn as on my finger knitted pumpkin. The only difference is the color, this one is Los Angeles tan and it is a nice cream color. I used 2 skeins of yarn exactly for this wreath. Finger knit (see finger knitting video in this post) the whole length of both skeins.

Tie the beginning of one of the skeins to the wreath form then start wrapping the length around the wreath form. You can tuck the extra loose end into the wreath.

When you get to the end of your first skein, just tie it to the next skein. Again tuck any loose ends into the wreath.

Tie the end to the wreath form and tuck the loose end under the finger knitted yarn. This wreath was super easy to assemble and I love that I did not even need to use glue!

You can’t even tell where you started or ended! Adjust the thread if needed to cover any open areas on the wreath.

To attach the ornaments to the wreath, I put some tape on the end of a piece of yarn to string the yarn through the ornaments.

String the ornaments onto the yarn. Leave some space in between the ornaments. When you hold the yarn up level, the sides of the ornaments should just touch.

Bring both ends of the yarn together and tie a knot right above the ornaments. Then tie the ends around the wreath form and cut the extra yarn above the knot. Adjust the finger knitted yarn to cover this string.

Take a long piece of satin ribbon and string it under one of the branches of the wreath form. Use this ribbon to hang the wreath. Tie a pretty bow at the top and cut the ends of the ribbon to the desired length.

You can use whatever color ornaments and ribbon that you want to. I used these blue and red ornaments to go with my new blue front door. I LOVE the way the cream wreath looks against the door with the pops of red!

The rest of my front porch will be decorated for Christmas to match with this wreath. It is such a festive and fun color combo!

We are spacing our posts out a little more this year so instead of daily, I will be back in a couple days for the 2nd day of Christmas post. This will help all of us bloggers stay sane! Make sure to check all the other wreaths below!

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