Halloween pumpkin: do-it-yourself fun horror story

At the end of October, a meeting of the recently acquired holiday, Halloween, is coming for us in our latitudes. You can have a different attitude to this event, but the questions of young households are “And how will we celebrate the worst night of the year?” make you understand that the event is inevitable, and it’s better to prepare for it, and at the same time to attract especially active curious people to creatively useful work. Run to the mall? But commercial proposals for decorating a monster event are not always encouraging with price, originality and quality of execution.

View of the finished pumpkin from an old sweater

You planned on the eve of the New Year, according to Italian tradition, to get rid of old things, just throwing them on the street? And do not rush to get rid of valuable Halloween raw materials - knitted sweaters and blouses! We have wonderful instructions on how to turn them into funny soft pumpkins of various shapes, sizes, colors and textures.

Bonus - you give new life to your outdated clothes or the one from which your children grew up long ago, you get great joy from joint family needlework, and you get multifunctional decorative accessories.

What is needed

Tools and materials for pumpkin

• old sweaters (any, but preferably, of course, bright cheerful colors will do)
• tailor scissors
• sewing threads (preferably thicker)
• needles (for convenience - with a big eye)
• filler (packing)
• several pieces of wood from tree branches of different diameters and lengths

What to do with all this?

1. Cut (cut) the stick into small pieces (the size will depend on which pumpkin you plan to “grow” - a giantella or a mini version. The trees will serve as the basis for the structure and means of transporting the product from place to place.

Wooden details for pumpkin

2. Cut oval blanks from the fabric and proceed to the formation of the vegetable. We don’t need to look for compasses throughout the house, we don’t need the correct geometric figure. Where did you see a perfectly round pumpkin?

Start assembling an accessory

3. Now it’s the turn of the filler. It needs to be made springy and light. Therefore, remember it in your hands, fluff, give the shape of a ball. Place the "stuffing" on the fabric.

4. We collect the ends of the fabric from the sides and proceed to sewing. Do not forget to make a knot at the end of the thread? Well, if it is green, as a hint of a plant stem or leaf. We make double stitches for reliability.

Finish creating a pumpkin

5. Now we begin to sew, moving to the center to connect all ends of the fabric in the upper part. Leave a small hole for the wooden workpiece.

6. We install the “tail” of the pumpkin, firmly stitch it around the stick, and then several times wrap the core with thread and firmly fix it.

7. We cut off everything superfluous, admire the result and proceed to the manufacture of the next instance.

8. We arrange a multi-colored soft garden around the house and wait for the dark moment of the horror holiday to come.

Watch the video: The Halloween DIY Horror Show ManoMano UK (May 2024).