Sweater Pumpkins

 Good morning ! Today I am sharing my sweater pumpkins ! I made some last year that you can see here .. I wanted some cream colored sweater pumpkins , so I went to the Good Will and got a cream colored sweater. You can make a lot of pumpkins from one sweater.

 I saw the aqua sweater and knew I needed some aqua pumpkins too.. To make them you need some sticks from the yard , or real dried out pumpkin stems, the sweaters, stuffing, some thin wire and twine..and a hot glue gun ..I use a big sewing needle and heavy duty thread.

 You can see where I cut the sleeves into pieces .. each of those becomes a pumpkin..

 

Both of these sweaters had necks that I used too, for a pumpkin.. for the blue one I buttoned it up and just used it like that , so that pumpkin has buttons down one side.

 I got 4 out of 1 sleeve..Last year when I made them I used the whole body of the sweater to make bigger pumpkins.. This time I cut the body into 4 pieces and just sewed a side seam on each of those pieces... the more detail and cables on a sweater makes for cuter pumpkins..

To make a pumpkin , take one of the sleeve pieces , turn inside out..gather the bottom up with needle and thread...
Turn right side out , stuff as full as you want ..Then use your needle and thread to gather the top. before you pull your thread tight , place a piece of branch in the top for the stem. after you gather it and have it sewn shut , you can use hot glue to secure it. I took my needle and make the little indentations on the pumpkin by wrapping the thread around in three different places..  The you can add your little curly cue or leaves with hot glue.

 For the little curly cues , I took wire , put some hot glue on it , then wrapped it in thin jute. I then took the wire and wrapped it around a glue stick to get the curly shape.I added book page leaves to the ends , which I think I am going to change out to burlap.

 You can see in this photo how the thread is used to sculpt the pumpkin.

 I think they are so cute , and if you have sweaters in your closet that you can use that makes it even better :)

 The little blue one with buttons is below , also the white one I made a leaf from some sweater scraps I cut off.

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