A door wreath made from crocheted flowers and leaves worked in cotton yarn, assembled onto a base. Crochet hook 4.00 mm (G-6). You will also need a glue gun and a few basic supplies beyond the yarn.
Why cotton
Cotton holds a crisp edge, which is what makes crocheted petals look like petals rather than soft blobs. It also takes dye brightly, so spring colours stay vivid. Wool and acrylic both work but give a fuzzier outline that blurs the shapes.
If the wreath will hang on an exposed door, acrylic is the more practical choice – it resists damp and holds colour in sunlight better than cotton, which will fade and can spot in rain.
The base
A foam or straw wreath ring wrapped in yarn or ribbon before you attach anything. Wrapping the base first matters: gaps between flowers will otherwise show bare foam, and no amount of extra flowers hides it as well as a wrapped base does.
Wrap in a colour close to your leaf green so any gaps read as foliage.
Assembly
Lay every piece out on the wreath before gluing anything down. Move them around until the arrangement looks balanced – odd numbers of the largest flowers, spaced unevenly, look considerably better than a regular ring of identical blooms.
Glue the leaves first as a background layer, then the large flowers, then tuck small flowers and buds into the gaps. Working in that order lets the later pieces cover the joins of the earlier ones.
Use the glue sparingly and press each piece for a few seconds. A visible bead of hot glue squeezing out from under a petal is very hard to remove without damaging the crochet.
Storage
Store it flat in a box rather than hanging it in a cupboard, where the weight will distort the arrangement over a year.
