How To Make Velvet Pumpkins
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Minnie's Milestones by Jonni
(IC: blogger)
Loving velvet pumpkins. So elegant and so shabby chic.
I just finished mine after having the material now for several weeks. The suggestion by Patti of Old Things New, was to go to thrift stores and look for clothes made with velvet, I will do that before buying velvet again. Velvet isn't cheap! Also her blog tutorial, (here) I followed almost exactly. I have a few tips though . .
This is the biggest pumpkin and I used a pan that measured 16" across. After drawing up the basting stitches the pumpkins will turn out smaller than you think! I made a small flower with leaves from netting and tucked into the pumpkin with a couple of stitches.
This pumpkin has some moss glued around the stem.
The smallest pumpkin I decorated with a few flower petals. I sewed a pearl in the middle of the petal and then sewed it onto the pumpkin.
I want to make more of these beautiful, velvet pumpkins for fall 2015!
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Published November 14th, 2014 6:23 PM
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