How Do You Make A Live Evergreen Christmas Wreath?
Traditional evergreen Christmas wreaths are always elegant and they put the smell of Christmas throughout the house. If you have a real tree, you can use branches trimmed from the bottom of it to make one. If not, you can usually buy discarded branches cheaply wherever live trees are sold. Soak the tree branches standing up in water for 24-48 hours to make them flexible enough to work with. Work a coat hanger or wire into about a 12-inch circle. Cut three or four 10- to 12-inch sprigs from the branches. Tie these together with the spool wire, wrapping them three or four times tightly around the cut end. Wrap the spool wire around the circle, securing it tightly in place by wrapping it several times. Keeping the wire uncut, wrap it around the branch bundle you made, fixing it in place on the circle. Repeat the process with the same sized bundles of sprigs putting each one very close to the last. You want the evergreen sprigs to be very compact for a full wreath, so push each one tightly
