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Pumpkin Decorated With Yarn Embroidery

ByJennifer

I had a half faux pumpkin  and thought it would be fun to try to make a pumpkin decorated with yarn embroidery. I thought it would be an interesting spin on stitching with yarn to try. This is a fun idea for decorating a faux pumpkin.

A white pumpkin with an embroidered black cat and bat design, wearing a red bow tie, surrounded by small pumpkins and greenery on a wooden slab. The image has a watermark reading "Jennifer Rizzo.

I decided on a bat with a bow-tie because… why not? It’s kind of fun! Start by makring our your design and then carefully pre-punching your holes in the pumpkin.

 

I found out it’s easiest to first draw your image,mark the holes with a marker and then punch them or carefully drill them out. It saves on the fingers trying to push a needle through a foam pumpkin. The two closest holes are going to be where you create a stitch with your yarn.

Close-up of a crafting project where black cord is being threaded through a white surface using pre-punched holes. Some black dots are visible on the surface, hinting at an embroidered pumpkin taking shape.

to stitch my bat, I just used regular, black and red  yarn. Another thing you can do with a faux pumpkin is add clay and make it look like a faux ceramic pumpkin.

Once the holes were punches out, it was just a matter if going in and out and following your stitch line. The yarn covered up a few of my punching mistakes.

It took about 30 minutes to follow all of the stitching along my lines. I did the same with the bow-tie in red yarn. He’s kind of cute,scary. I placed a drop of glue on the backside to hold the end of the yarn in place.

A white pumpkin with an embroidered black-stitched bat design wearing a red bow tie, surrounded by smaller pumpkins and greenery.

I added some air plants for decoration. I think they are some creepy looking plants. They remind me of spiders.I always forget to give them a soaking. I am one of the few people who can actually kill air plants. It’s a real talent.

I do like the half pumpkins because they come with a hanger already on the back and it make sit easy to embroider, but you could do this will a full foam pumpkin as well by removing the top for access.

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