Crocheted Christmas Wreath

I make myself wait until after Thanksgiving to decorate for Christmas, but since I have to be prepared for Christmas, I definitely work on projects whenever I have the chance. While in the West Bottoms, I found the "Merry Christmas" sign for $5 and couldn't pass it up. At first, I was just going to hang it on our door with some fun ribbon.  Then I remembered - I wanted to make a crocheted wreath like the ones I saw in Crochet at Home. I purchased a 16" wreath and gathered some Christmas-y yarn and got to work!

I chose the white wreath over a green wreath because I was worried the green would start crumbling.  This was super simple and just took a few hours.  

There weren't step-by-step instructions in the book but I found a great tutorial (with step-by-step pictures!) on goodknits.com (and the wreath on the page is gorgeous). I had never done anything like this so it was really helpful to have step-by-step pictures. I crocheted a chain loop to create the hanger.

For the green edging, I joined with a slip stitch to the first single crochet.  I then chained three and made a slip stitch in the back of every fourth single crochet. Nothing fancy, just nice and simple.  I then used a chain stitch to connect the sign to the wreath.

Merry (early) Christmas!

There are a lot of really cute crafts in the Crochet at Home Book.  I'm looking forward to making the nesting dolls!