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Fabric Pumpkins Tutorial

  • Mary
  • Posted: October 11, 2011 - Updated at: November 13, 2022
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Are you looking for an easy DIY pumpkin? Look no further! Here’s a cute way to make them out of fabric. You could even have an older child make or help make them.

To get started, you’ll need orange fabric (cutting instructions below), leaves cut from green fabric (felt or fleece would be ideal), 2″ piece of stick, embroidery floss, heavy-duty thread, and needle, a glue gun, brown or tan raffia, and a sewing machine (optional).

1. Cut your orange fabric into a rectangle. For a rounder pumpkin, the length should be 2 times the width (ex. 10″ wide by 20″ long). For a slightly squattier pumpkin, the length should be 2.5 times the width (ex. 10″ wide by 25″ long).

2. Fold the orange fabric lengthwise with the right sides together. Use a sewing machine or hand stitch along the open edge.

Related: 8 Best Pumpkin Painting Ideas – You Must Try These!

 

3. With right sides still together, gather up the fabric at one of the openings and tie securely with embroidery floss. A rubber band rather than floss could also work but may not be as durable over several years.

4. Turn the pumpkin’s right side out. Loosely hand stitch around the opening of the pumpkin with a 3/8″ seam allowance with stitches around 1/4″ wide. Use a heavy-duty thread, so it doesn’t break when you pull it in step 6. Leave loose tails hanging off at the beginning and the end, and don’t tie any knots.

5. Fill the pumpkin with stuffing until it is fairly firm.

6. Pull the ends of the thread stitched around the top until the opening is closed or nearly closed, and tie several knots. Trim off the long ends of the thread.

7. Take your embroidery floss and tie a tight circle around the pumpkin and leave around a 6″ tail. (For reference, I needed about 4 feet total of embroidery floss for a pumpkin that used the fabric measurements of 10″ x 20″).

8. Next, wrap the long piece of the embroidery floss twice around the pumpkin diagonally from your first line so there are six total segments. Tightly tie the string to the tail left from step 7.

9. Use your glue gun to make a large glue dot in the top center of the pumpkin. I’m using white glue so you can see it in the photo, but clear would be best. Press your stick into the hot glue.

10. Use the hot glue gun to attach your leaves.

11. To finish, wrap a piece of raffia around the base of the stem to hide any excess glue.

12. After this step, you can call it finished, or you (or kids!) could cut jack o’lantern faces out of felt and hot glue them to the pumpkins.

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42 comments
  1. Rebekah says:
    October 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    Very cute and great tutorial!

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  2. Cherise says:
    October 11, 2011 at 2:01 pm

    Great tutorial and awesome pumpkins! 🙂

    Reply
  3. Becky says:
    October 11, 2011 at 3:08 pm

    Super cute!

    Reply
  4. Carla V. says:
    October 11, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    This would be perfect for my daughter to make! Thanks!

    Reply
  5. Jamie says:
    October 12, 2011 at 11:04 am

    super cute & pretty easy to make! nice!!

    Reply
  6. Tara says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    Great Tutorial. I’d love for you to link it to my party:https://trophyw.blogspot.com/2011/10/linky-11-will-craft-forinspiration.html

    Reply
  7. Angela says:
    October 12, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    So simple and cute! Great tutorial!

    Reply
  8. Rachel says:
    October 12, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    How cute is that? Love it.

    Reply
  9. jamieS says:
    October 12, 2011 at 5:08 pm

    I love these, they are so cute! And they look easy too!
    ~JamieS

    Reply
  10. Meredith Resnick From A Mother Seeking... says:
    October 13, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    These are super cute. I always run away when I see needle and thread, but maybe… I should try…
    ~ Meredith From A Mother Seeking Come find me on my blog, A Mother Seeking…

    Reply
  11. Meredith Resnick From A Mother Seeking... says:
    October 13, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    I pinned this!

    Reply
  12. Just Jaime says:
    October 13, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    These look great!

    I stumbled this post!

    Reply
  13. Peggy Banks says:
    October 14, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    I would love it if you would link this to my link party, and any others you may have. Thanks, It just started 🙂
    https://diycraftstomake.blogspot.com/2011/10/whacha-got-weekly-linky-party.html

    Reply
  14. Delightful Deets says:
    October 14, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    These are so cute! Thanks for the step by step tutorial, have a great weekend!

    Reply
  15. Karen Weight says:
    October 15, 2011 at 11:20 am

    I love them! I have started these and need to finish them:) Thanks for the little nudge! Have a fabulous weekend!!

    Reply
  16. Sassy Sites! says:
    October 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    Good morning!! You got a Saturday Shout Out over at Sassy Sites! Come on by and grab a button!! XOXO!

    Reply
  17. Cathy @ My 1929 Charmer says:
    October 16, 2011 at 11:41 am

    Wow, too cute, I’ll be making a few of these myself. This need to be shared, Would you post at my Sunday’s Best party going on now, http://www.my1929charmerblog.com. I want everyone to see these!

    Reply
  18. Amie @ Pinkapotamus says:
    October 17, 2011 at 11:22 am

    These are soo adorable.. and I just love the simplicity of making them.. I think even a sewing like myself could master these! Thanks so much for sharing with the Pink Hippo party!

    Reply
  19. Heather says:
    October 17, 2011 at 12:32 pm

    Very cute!!

    Reply
  20. RACHELLE BALL says:
    October 17, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Hi! I spotted your pumpkins on a linky party. Very cute, my dear! Stop on over Dazed for a visit! 🙂

    Reply
  21. Jill says:
    October 17, 2011 at 5:03 pm

    The perfect simple craft for Halloween! The pumpkins look fabulous!

    Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
    Hope you have a great week!
    Jill @ Creating my way to Success
    https://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  22. Krista says:
    October 17, 2011 at 7:32 pm

    love these and I made some this weekend! Hope you’ll check them out, I linked back to this post!
    https://kristastitched.blogspot.com/2011/10/fabric-pumpkins-and-jack-o-lanterns.html

    Reply
  23. marilyn says:
    October 18, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    these are BEAUTIFUL..

    Reply
  24. Kimberly says:
    October 19, 2011 at 11:17 pm

    These are just plain adorable! 🙂

    I’d love for you to link up to my pumpkin party:

    “Pumpkinspiration Party!

    Reply
    1. Lindsay says:
      October 20, 2011 at 1:04 pm

      Thanks for the invite! Tutorial just added. 🙂

      Reply
  25. Denise :) says:
    October 20, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Just wanted you to know that I think your tutorial and end result is the best one out there on the web! I’d pinned your to my fall board a couple of days ago, but just got around to trying it out today. Thank you so much for sharing!!! 🙂

    Reply
  26. Felicia says:
    October 20, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    Love! I just cleaned out my fabric will have to try with some of the orange I have!

    Reply
  27. Loralei says:
    October 21, 2011 at 2:40 pm

    What a fantastic tutorial – I now know what my daughter and her friend will be doing tomorrow at her play date. Thanks for posting this!! I will post on my blog and link back this weekend :-))

    Reply
  28. Loralei says:
    October 21, 2011 at 9:11 pm

    oops, I left the wrong web address, silly moi. It is http://www.whimsicalmermaid.blogspot.com . The girls are so looking forward to making these tomorrow!

    Reply
  29. Lola says:
    October 22, 2011 at 10:45 pm

    That is so cute, i’m going to make a few for my craft room!!!
    Thanks

    Reply
  30. Loralei says:
    October 27, 2011 at 1:58 am

    Thanks again for the tut – I posted a pic, and a link back to this post today – along with a fat quarter giveaway that I am hosting – we had an absolute blast making these pumpkins!

    Reply
  31. Françoise-Porcelaine says:
    October 27, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    Hello!
    I’m very fond of your pumkins!!! Yes!!!
    Enjoy a nice day.
    Friendly yours.

    Reply
  32. Casandra says:
    October 29, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    My birthday is on Halloween and I love all things fall. Looking forward to making some of these pumpkins! Thanks for info

    Reply
  33. Joquena says:
    January 11, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    These are so adorable I wish it were fall again!

    Reply
  34. debbi says:
    September 13, 2012 at 6:29 pm

    Thank you for this! A former coworker made them years ago and I’ve been looking for a pattern.

    Reply
  35. Donna says:
    October 25, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    Thank you for a very cute idea!

    Reply
  36. Terri says:
    September 14, 2014 at 8:45 pm

    These are so cute! I just had to share them on my latest post along with a link back to this page.

    Reply
    1. Mary says:
      September 17, 2014 at 9:21 pm

      Thanks so much for sharing, Terri!

      Reply
  37. Marisa says:
    September 27, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    Made these with various burlap colors and they turned out so cute! Thanks you!

    Reply
  38. Merry says:
    September 27, 2014 at 8:07 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing. These turn out cute and still look good if you have to piece your rectangle together. I made fatter pumpkins by going about 1:3, for example 10″ x 30″.

    Also, in Step 3, you can use a rubber band to hold the gathers together while you wrap the embroidery floss (I used button-carpet thread) around the bottom of the pumpkin.

    Reply
    1. Mary says:
      September 28, 2014 at 1:51 pm

      Great ideas, thanks for the tips Merry!

      Reply
  39. mary hackney says:
    October 28, 2017 at 5:24 pm

    Kids Made this today from felt in Bible school when I was desparate for a craft. They loved it!!

    Reply

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