Sew simple fabric pumpkin ornaments using scraps of orange or fall fabrics. Make several to hang on hooks or to attach to fall gift baskets for harvest gift-giving.
Approximate Time: 1 hour
Supplies:
- pumpkin shape
- ruler
- lightweight cardboard
- permanent marker
- scissors
- fall fabric scraps
- straight pins
- sewing machine
- iron
- craft glue and hot glue gun
- stick
- wire cutters and needle-nose pliers
- leaf shape
- beige scrap paper
- raffia
- black acrylic paint
- wooden skewer
- paper punch
- large yarn needle
- craft wire
Instructions:
- Find a pumpkin shape. I drew one by hand, but clip art or cookie cutters can also be used and enlarged as desired.
Mine measured 4 inches tall by 4 1/2 inches wide. Trace the shape on lightweight cardboard and cut out.
- Place two pieces of fabric together with the right sides facing.
Center the pattern on the fabric and trace around it with a marking pen.
Pin the fabric layers together. Sew on the traced line of the pumpkin.
Do not leave an opening for turning.
- Cut out the pumpkin 1/8 inch from the stitching line.
Cut a 1 1/2 inch slit in the center of one pumpkin side.
Turn the pumpkin right side out through the opening and press.
- Cut a patch of matching fabric approximately 1 inch wide by 2 inches long. Apply craft glue to the back of the patch. Place the patch over the slit in the pumpkin to close.
- Gather a stick from your yard that is slightly thicker than a wooden barbecue skewer, but smaller than the diameter of a pencil.
Using wire cutters, cut a piece 2 inches long for the pumpkin stem.
Apply hot glue to the back of the stem and attach it to the center top of your pumpkin.
- Cut a 2 1/2-inch leaf shape using beige wallpaper or scrapbook paper.
I used a Cricut die cut machine and a leaf design from the Doodletype cartridge.
A leaf could also be cut by hand using a real leaf as your pattern. Write "FALL" on the leaf using a permanent marker.
Dip the blunt end of a wooden skewer into black acrylic paint. Dot each end and intersection of each letter.
Allow the paint to dry. Using a paper punch, punch a hole centered above the word "FALL".
- Poke holes just below the top edge of the pumpkin and a 1/2 inch from both sides of the stem using a large yarn needle.
Cut a 9-inch length of craft wire using wire cutters. Bend the wire into a "U" shape. Poke the ends through the holes from the back of the pumpkin to the front. Pull 2 inches of the wire ends through to the front.
- Slip the leaf on the left wire end. Grasp the wire end with the tip of needle-nose pliers.
Twist the wire around the end until the entire 2 inches has been curled.
Remove the pliers and repeat with the other wire end.
- Tie a few strands of raffia around the wire curls on the right.
By cyndee kromminga from Winfield, KS
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Dip the blunt end of a wooden skewer into black acrylic paint. Dot each end and intersection of each letter.
Allow the paint to dry. Using a paper punch, punch a hole centered above the word "FALL".
