Description
An easy pillow to create for Autumn.
Ingredients
- ‘Teddy Bear’ fabric in the color of the pumpkin of your choice (Large cut: 12×24″, Medium cut: 10×20″, Small cut: 7×14″)
- Polyester fiber fill
- Regular sewing needle
- Sewing thread (same color as the teddy bear fabric)
- Doll needle
- Craft cord (same color as the teddy bear fabric)
- Green and or natural twine
- Wine corks (1-2 per pumpkin)
- Hot glue gun
Instructions
The Stuffed Pumpkin
- With the teddy bear fabric on the inside fold the cut fabric in half.
- On the opposite end of the fold where the two ends of the fabric meet, sew that together so you get a loop. Use a sewing machine or do by hand.
- With one of the open sides (now referring to as the top and bottom), close the bottom with a straight stitch and pull it closed. You’ll want to run that stitch around the entire fabric (don’t put the fabric together and sew closed).
- Turn the fabric teddy bear side out and you should have what looks like a beanie or winter hat.
- This open part is the top.
- Using the fiber fill, stuff the sac so it’s nearly full.
- With another straight stitch, thread the sewing thread around the opening, and pull closed.
- Now you have a ball.
- Switch to the doll needle and craft cord. Give yourself a lot of craft cord and double up.
- At the bottom of the ball where you made your first straight stitch close, anchor your craft cord.
- In the very center of the bottom, push your doll needle up and through the center of the top.
- Pull the cord all the way through until it’s taught with the anchor stitch.
- Run the doll needle through the bottom again and up to the top. Pull the cord and you’ve made your first two ‘lumps’ of the pumpkin.
- Continue this process until you have about 8 lumps total. I like to evenly split the ball into quarters and then those quarters into eighths for a symmetrical look.
- When the last lump is created anchor the stitch.
- Now you have a pumpkin with out a stem.
The Stem
- Depending on the size of your pumpkin, you may only need one wine cork. For the purpose of this post, my pictures are showing what you could do with two corks to create a lop-sided or larger stem.
- Cut the cork and glue multiple corks together as needed.
- Spread some hot glue around the cork and loop your twine around the glue. You won’t need to glue every time your wrap your twine around, but use your judgement. After my first glue, I went about a quarter of the way up the cork, glued some more, and kept looping and gluing.
- Add glue to the bottom of the twine cork and stick into the top of the pumpkin.
- Congrats! You made a pumpkin pillow.