How To Make Fabric Covered Pumpkins

Start by cutting your fabric into a rectangle tall enough to reach the middle top to the middle bottom of your pumpkin.

How to make fabric covered pumpkins. Work in small sections to paint mod podge i use matte finish because i love it on your pumpkin. Next cut the fabric in to strips about 2 to 3 inches wide. Pull tight and loop back over the side of the pumpkin back through the bottom. Using a large needle thread the yarn starting at the bottom of the pumpkin up through the center.

Allow the mod podge to dry. Use your fingers to smooth out any bubbles. A small foam pumpkin from the dollar store or craft store scissors a square of fabric a twig from your yard a scrap of twine or faux greenery. Take a piece of fat quarter fabric you can use any scrap fabric but the fat quarters like sold at wal mart and other places are the perfect size.

Fabric pumpkin supplies fabric stuffing twigs trimmings scissors glue gun needle thread and embroidery floss. Continue applying mod podge and layering fabric until the pumpkin is covered. If desired apply an outer coat of mod podge on top of the fabric. Today s video is a diy fabric pumpkin video.

This easy diy project video will show you how to make fabric pumpkins. It s okay if you end up with some wrinkles on the bottom. In this video you will see how i decorate. It helps if you stretch the fabric a little bit and then use your fingers to smooth out the wrinkles.

Place the pumpkin in the middle and literally start pulling the fabric up one piece at a time and shoving it inside the hole. Taper the ends so you have a wedge shape like the picture below. This should be done while the glue is still wet. Once the pumpkin is covered use the palms of your hands and fingers to mold the fabric onto the pumpkin.

Gather the fabric by pulling the stich tight tie off the thread and cut extra thread off.