Handmade New Year’s wreaths: A collection of festive ideas using shimenawa and mizuhiki
How about brightening up your front entrance or rooms for New Year’s with a handmade wreath? From arrangements inspired by shimenawa ropes, to pieces with a gentle feel using fabric scraps or tissue paper, to stylish designs finished with mizuhiki cords or craft tape, there are countless ways to make a New Year’s wreath.
In this article, we introduce easy, handmade New Year’s wreath ideas you can try with materials you already have.
You can incorporate auspicious red-and-white or gold accents, add lavish decorations to celebrate the new year in style, and create all kinds of variations with a bit of ingenuity.
Let’s get ready to welcome the new year while enjoying heartfelt, handmade creations!
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Handmade New Year’s wreaths! A collection of gorgeous ideas using shimenawa and mizuhiki (31–40)
crocheted wreath
This is a New Year’s shimenawa decoration made using the amikazari (woven ornament) technique.
Even if you think knitting seems difficult, don’t worry.
If you follow the steps slowly, you’ll finish it beautifully.
Choose your favorite color of yarn and use a crochet hook to make the necessary parts.
Arrange the finished rope section, flowers, and greenery in a balanced way and secure them, and you’ll have a cute shimenawa decoration with a warm texture.
If any parts wobble, fix them with a hot glue gun to hold them firmly in place.
New Year’s wreath with a shimenawa base
This is an elegant, Japanese-style shimenawa wreath you can make using materials available even at 100-yen shops.
Prepare a shimenawa-style base and decorate it with artificial flowers, pinecones, and the like.
If you want it to match a Western-style room, adding a lace ribbon is recommended.
Real shimenawa are heavy and require care when hanging, but this wreath uses only lightweight materials, so you can easily hang it up.
Choose and arrange the decorations to suit the place you want to display it and your preferred style.
Colorful shimenawa wreath
How about handmaking a New Year’s shimenawa decoration that’s not just chic, but colorful and cute? Beyond traditional designs, you can use artificial flowers, add jewels or beads—the ideas are endless.
Choose any colors you like, such as pink or purple.
You can easily find faux florals, greenery, tassels, and mizuhiki cords at 100-yen shops and the like.
Both the making and the styling are entirely up to you.
Create a modern, updated shimenawa wreath and brighten the start of the New Year with a festive flourish!
A New Year’s wreath like wasanbon
This wreath is perfect for the New Year, made with a fluffy material that evokes the soft look of wasanbon sugar.
The base is a cozy yarn-wrapped wreath, onto which you attach decorations such as artificial flowers using a hot glue gun.
To bring out a New Year’s feel, the Japanese aesthetic and overall color scheme are key, so be particular about the types of flowers you choose.
Since the base is soft, gentle colors tend to match well, but adding red-and-white accents to reflect the New Year is also highly recommended.
A wreath using a wall-mounted flower vase
How about creating a festive New Year’s decoration using camellias from a wall-mounted flower vase and a New Year’s table ring? You can get everything you need at a 100-yen shop, including peonies, pine, green bushes, chirimen-style fabric scraps, arrangement pick pearls, a hot glue gun, and more.
Cut each item to a manageable length and attach them to the flower vase with the glue gun.
Start with greenery, then add white, and finish with eye-catching colors like red and gold to create a piece that showcases your sense of style.
Finally, make good use of the fabric scraps to heighten the New Year’s mood!
Handmade New Year’s Wreaths! A Collection of Gorgeous Ideas Using Shimenawa and Mizuhiki (41–50)
Plum Blossom Wreath in Origami
This is an origami wreath adorned with cute plum blossoms.
Fold two opposite corners of a square sheet toward the center to form triangles, then fold the piece in half.
Take the resulting trapezoid and fold one end up at a right angle.
Make eight identical units, then overlap and assemble them into a circular wreath.
Using smaller origami sheets, create two fan-shaped parts and attach them to the bottom of the finished wreath to complete the base.
Finally, decorate it with three-dimensional origami plum blossoms and New Year–themed embellishments for a festive finish.
Origami Crane Wreath
This is a lucky wreath made from parts of origami cranes.
All you need is colorful origami paper.
Fold the cranes as instructed, make plenty of them, and you can assemble a wreath.
The method is simple, so it’s enjoyable for everyone—from young children to older adults.
Since it features cranes, it would also make a lovely alternative to a New Year’s shimenawa decoration.
Prepare about eight cranes, overlap and fasten the parts together, and they’ll form a circle.
Then just adjust the balance, and it’s done.
It’s perfect for celebrations and makes a great gift too.