I found a few gently used holiday wreaths at my local Goodwill. They were a bargain at $5 each, and I love that I'm keeping all this plastic out of our landfill for at least few more years.
You could also make your own from real branches and fill your home with a lovely pine-fresh scent.
I cut the assembly wires on two of the wreaths and straightened them out. I used some 16g wire to wire them together end-to end. Now they're bendable and poseable. I kept the third wreath intact and connected it to the middle of the garland strands with more wire.
Starting at one end, I wrapped the pixel strand around the garland. I went up one side, then wrapped the wreath, then down the other side.
In hindsight it would have been helpful to find the middle of the strand and mark it before I started, since it's hard to tell how much strand you have to work with while you're wrapping the wire. I have 300 pixels so I can wrap pretty densely.
That's all there is to it!
If you've got extra pixels at the end you can cut them off and reuse them for another project.
If you've ever wondered how these garlands are made, here's a short video showing the incredibly cool machine that makes them out of plastic ribbon wrapped with wire. Neat!
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