How To Make Velvet Pumpkins

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How To Make Velvet Pumpkins

Hey Friends! I’m so glad that you are here today. Can you believe that we are talking about Fall already? As I write this, we are smack dab into the extreme heat of summer. I am definitely looking forward to cooler weather, and do I dare say-wear a sweater? Don’t you just love decorating for Fall? Me, too. One of my favorite decorating items is velvet pumpkins. Have you seen them before? They are so pretty and incredibly easy to make. Come on, I’ll show you how.

Velvet pumpkins are so beautiful. They come in many sizes and colors, however they can get expensive if you want a bunch of them. When you make them yourself, you are only limited by your imagination. Get creative, you have no rules.

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You will need velvet fabric (you only need a small amount of fabric for each pumpkin), scissors, thread, a needle, dry beans, polyfil, a pumpkin stem, and a hot glue gun. By the way, have you seen the new glue gun by Ryobi? It’s cordless and it heats up quickly. And, let’s be honest, it feels like you are using a power tool and that’s just cool.

Step 1: Draw a circle onto the back of your fabric. The bowl that I used was about 12″ across and I got a pumpkin that is about 6″ across.

Step 2: Cut out the circle.

Step 3: Thread your needle and do a wip stitch around the circle. Leave the thread attached as you will need it for the next step.

Step 4: Now you will have to be a bit gentle with this step. You will need to pull on the thread and gather the “pumpkin” into a bowl shape.

Step 5: When the opening is about 3″ across, fill it about 1/3 of the space with the dry beans .

Step 6: Fill up with polyfil.

Step 7: Pull on the thread to close the opening to just enough space for the pumpkin stem to fit and tie off the thread.

Step 8: Using the hot glue gun, attach the pumpkin stem. If you have access to real pumpkin stems, use them for this, they look amazing.

Step 9: Hold the pumpkin stem in until the glue is dry. That’s it! You now have a beautiful velvet pumpkin. Don’t want to use velvet? Feel free to use any fabric.

I just love the look of these pumpkins. They are so colorful and elegant.

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Renae