I used some of the great fabrics available from Makerist to make pumpkins out of fabric as autumn decorations for the home. Before making them, I printed the fabrics using the fun foam rubber stamps.
You need a lot of material for the pumpkins, but in the end they are quite easy to make.
Different fabrics: orange, yellow, white, blue, flowered (I still had yellow and orange corduroy fabric at home, so it's not the same in the pictures as in the link).
Stamps: alphabet, pattern, cat, monster
Fabric paint and brush
Sewing thread and needle or sewing machine
Robust thread, e.g. star thread and larger sewing needle
Filling cotton
Kitchen string
Felt
Wire (optional)
Hot glue gun
First cut out the fabric. To give the pumpkins a nice shape, the cut-out rectangle should be twice as long as it is high. I have cut out different sizes so that each pumpkin is different in size. You can choose any size you like. The fabric for my largest pumpkin is 80x40.
Next, I printed the fabric and then left it to dry. The printing worked best when I applied a generous layer of fabric paint to the stamp with a brush and then carefully placed it on the fabric and pressed it down evenly.
Then fold the fabric rectangle once and sew the open, short side together. This can also be done by hand.
Now the star thread comes into play. Use it to sew a very rough seam along the bottom edge by hand. It works best if you have both ends of the thread together at the end.
Because you can then pull on the ends and crimp the fabric together nicely, knot it, wrap it around the end a few times and knot it well again.
Turn the fabric inside out and repeat the exact same seam on the top edge. Then fill with batting. It is a good idea to fill in as much wadding as possible. Just enough so that you can still close the opening well. But the more wadding there is, the tighter the pumpkin will be at the end.
Now you can also close this opening by pulling the thread together. To close the opening properly, you can sew the thread back and forth a few more times with a needle after tying it. This does not need to be done particularly neatly as it will not be visible at the end.
Finally comes the best part: use the kitchen string to divide the pumpkin into eight segments. I wrapped the string around the pumpkin like a parcel and knotted it tightly after each round. It should be said here that you can pull the string really tight. As tight as you can and it's best to get someone to help you by putting their finger on the knot. The tighter you pull the thread, the more beautiful the segments will be. They can still be tidied up after tying.
There is also a method where you pull the thread through the middle again and again with a very long needle. Unfortunately, I didn't have such a long needle to hand and the second method doesn't work well with very large pumpkins, even with a very long needle.
If you like, you can also make a handle out of felt. To do this, wrap a piece of wire in the felt, glue it in place with hot glue and glue it again in the middle of the pumpkin with a generous dab of hot glue. For my funny monster print, I glued the stem to the wrong end... Silly me!
I think the big, white pumpkin with the cat print is the most successful, because with the smaller ones you run the risk of not being able to see the prints as well.
I like the pumpkins best at home as table decorations. But they also look cute outside the front door. :)
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