Faux Twine-Wrapped Pumpkin DIY
I love the rustic look this Fall, and I made this cute, twine-wrapped pumpkin. How cute would a few other these be on a porch or stairway? It just took twine and rope, some bendable wire, hot glue, burlap ribbon, and a couple of pine cones from the yard to turn an ordinary little fake pumpkins from the craft store into this cutie.
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Fake pumpkins are so versatile and have to much potential, including painting them to look a little more real. For this project, I used a $5 craft store faux pumpkin to make this twine-wrapped pumpkin.
For this project use either super tacky glue, or a low melt hot glue gun. Faux pumpkins are Styrofoam and can melt, so I always apply the glue to the rope or twine and not the pumpkin itself.
To wrap my faux pumpkin in twine, I started at the stem with my heavy twine from the hardware store and just glued and wrapped right under the stem. I twirled and glued and wrapped all the way down. Once I was past half way, I flipped it over and continued on to the bottom.
To create a longer bendy-type stem, so I took some black wire I had, and bent it into a stem-ish shape.Since the pumpkins are some kind of foam, I just stuck it in a glued it a bit to hold it in place.
I started wrapping the wire and base in another size and color of twine for contrast.
 Once I got up tot he top, I just kept wrapping and gluing until I got the size and texture I wanted.
I tied on a bit of burlap ribbon and glued a few pine cones we had and viola!
 A cute little, twine wrapped pumpkin, ready for a Fall mantle and some stray leaves!
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this idea is so clever. I was going to try a few burlap pumpkins this year as well!
Love the textured look! Great idea!!
Such a great textured look! And really cute too! 🙂 Happy week to you! xo Holly
Jen,
Love this idea! I am not sure what I am doing for fall this year.My home is much different than it was a year ago.How to you create a break in your post.Is that what you are doing to make it harder for your content to be stolen.I am trying to figure out how to do that.
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Anne
Oooooohhhh….how cute it that! 🙂 I just love it! I’m kind of confused about the trunacate thing, I have never even heard of this-popped over to the site you referenced and read through—will try n read some more about it. I don’t quite have neat tutorials like this, so am not too sure I need to be worried.
Love the pumpkins…such a neat idea! I’m so excited for fall!!
Sorry to hear you’ve had content stolen too. I’ve been reading quite a few bloggers who’ve had the same promblems. I’m wondering how you’ve found out the blogs that have stolen your content. Since I’m a small blogger, and don’t have project tutorials, etc., I don’t think they’d ever bother with me. But, I’m curious nonetheless.
I have google analytics and I get reports for any pings on my site. I always try to back link in my blog, so that’s how I get an idea.
Your twine pumpkin is so cute, what a great idea! I always lose my battle with HGG too! Too bad that there are people out there who ruin a good thing, seems to always happen doesn’t it. Glad you are taking measure to protect yourself. Take care sweetie!
I haven’t even retired my flip flops yet and now I’m getting ready for fall – my favorite season! What a cutie little pumpkin – pinning this!
Kelly
This is a great idea Jennifer!
Clever idea..
Love the pumpkin..
What a great job! I always wonder what to do with those pumpkins.
Your site is like the 3rd one this week that has discussed ‘truncating’. Whatever it is clicking a few extra links here and there is no biggie. It’s more fun reading the actual blog rather than a feed anyway =D
BTW: LOVE this crafting idea. It’s looks fun and quick. Only question is: do you remember what size (diameter) sisal rope you used??
Love the way you did the stem! Looks great!