I wanted to add a touch of fall to our home this year. For the first time we are living in a place that actually has four seasons and it has inspired me. It always seamed weird decorating for Fall when it was 95 degrees outside.
Here's how I made them:
First have your almost 2 year old roll all over the fabric you just cut, because you got out your camera. Good thing this doesn't need to be all ironed and perfect to work!
Cut your fabric 2 times as long as wide. Depending how big you want your pumpkin. I did mine 24" x 12". It makes a nice medium size pumpkin.
Fold you fabric right side together and sew up the longer side (machine or by hand). Then without a back stitch, sew up 1 of the short sides. Then gather the short side by pulling one string and knot it off once it is nice and gathered. turn it right side out and fill with batting.
Hand stitch the top closed, I just used a running stitch and pull to gather. You'll have 2 kind of points, bring those together and sew together and tie-off. You'll have a weird, misshapen ball.
Now you are going to make this lumpy ball into a pumpkin. Using an upholstery needle (nice and long to go all the way through your pumpkin) thread a long piece of yarn. Go through the top straight through the bottom and then loop your yarn around the pumpkin and go back through the top, pulling tight. Continue all around your pumpkin till you have as many segments that look right.
Make all your cute pumpkin accessories! For the stem, make a mini-pumpkin. I cut a little rectangle of brown fabric and folded it wrong sides together and just hand stitched a running stitch along the side and bottom, flipped and stuffed and hot glue gunned it closed. Cut out a leaf, glued it on top. For the little squiggle, I cut a length of florist wire and put a dot of hot glue on one end and wrapped it with brown yarn - glued the other end and twisted it around a pencil to get the curl. Hot glue all your accessories to the top of your pumpkin and you are finished! Now go make a bunch and start your fall decoration collection (or add to it!)
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