Mad About Pink: Fabric Pumpkins tutorial for your home

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Fabric Pumpkins tutorial for your home

full tutorial can be found here

Materials:

Fabric
Pillow stuffing
needle and thread
hot glue
scissors/ruler
Something for the stem and leaves
Twine, string or yarn to wrap around the pumpkin.
twine, raffia, felt or extra fabric (in case you need to hide any exposed hot glue around the stem, I only needed it on 2 of my 3 pumpkins.)

Instructions:

Cut your fabric into a rectangle, different dimensions will give different shapes. Technically, a standard pumpkin shape would be width = 2 times the height. I wanted various shapes that would complement each other, so for reference my cut pieces were:

orange fabric: 15.5 wide by 7.5 tall

purple fabric: 32 wide by 13 tall

stripe fabric: 21 wide by 16 tall

Fold your fabric in half, right sides together and hand sew, machine sew or even hot glue the side seam.

Next, sew a wide basting stitch along the bottom of the tube. (I tried to use my machine for this basting stitch, but it works better hand sewn since you can get a much wider stitch.) Gather the bottom up so it is tightly closed and sew a few stitches to secure the bottom.

Flip the fabric right side out and stuff your pumpkin. (To conserve my stuffing, I made a hole in the middle of the stuffing and used plastic bags and fabric scraps, then put stuffing on top.)

Sew a basting stitch along the top and close it the same way as the bottom.
Pull the top closed and add a few stitches to secure it.

Wrap the twine/string around the pumpkin 2 to 4 times (whatever looks best to you.) Wrap it tightly and tie it off on the bottom. The tension gives the pumpkin the the puffiness. If the knots at the bottom bother you, you could cut a circle of fabric/felt and hot glue it over the knots to cover them up.