DIY Felt Pumpkin (with a Free Pattern) [VIDEO]

This super easy and fully hand-sewn felt pumpkin decor is a great project to tackle with children or grandchildren. We have supplied the printable free pattern. All you will need is some orange felt, a little black felt and a tiny bit of green for the pumpkin stem, a little filling and your enthusiasm. If you like you can make a number of these to string together to hang over a door way. If stored well they will last for years, providing Halloween décor fun as people pass under the grinning pumpkins. When you sew thee along with the kids it makes for a great lesson, with a purpose!

This hand-stitched project is really easy and a great one to tackle with the kids. First, watch our visuals to see how simple it is to make the grinning felt pumpkin character. Then, print out the free felt pumpkin pattern and get cutting and stitching to create the character along with kids – they can each create one, then put them together in a garland. All you need is some felt, a little fiber filling, a sewing needle and thread. This DIY felt pumpkin project is a great one to bring the family together as you all prepare for Halloween.

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How to make a Felt Pumpkin

Supplies and tools

• Our free printable paper pattern (below)
• Orange felt for the body of the pumpkin
• Scraps of black felt for the eyes and mouth of the pumpkin character
• Small scrap of green for the pumpkin stalk
• Orange and black thread
• Embroidery needle
• Precision cutting knife and a self-healing cutting board )
• Small quantity of stuffing for the pumpkin
• scissors (or rotary cutter
• sewing clips or pins

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How to Sew a Felt Pumkin Decoration

Watch the diy felt pumkin video first and then follow the written step by step instructions below.
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Felt Pumpkin Decoration VIDEO TUTORIAL

INSTRUCTIONS:

STEP 1:

Print out the free felt pumpkin pattern pieces and trim out the excess paper.

Make sure you download the pattern to your computer and print to 100 % or no scaling.

STEP 2:

Place the pattern pieces over the orange felt for the front and back of the pumpkin and cut them out.

Cut out 2 pumpkin stalks out of green felt and the backing piece out of black felt.

Using a precision craft knife and the self-healing cutting board cut out the eyes and mouth from the front piece of the pumpkin. This is a step best handled by an adult or an older child, with safety precautions in mind.

STEP 3:

Position the black pieces of felt behind the mouth and eyes of the pumpkin, then pin them together to keep the black felt to the back of the pumpkin face.

STEP 4:

It’s time to give your felt pumpkin some character by hand-stitching around the eyes and mouth with the orange thread. You can extend the stitches around the eyes to create eyelashes, if you like.

STEP 5:

Line up the front and back of the pumpkin and clip or pin together. Using a matching orange thread, doubled up, start making small stitches to secure the two sides together, leaving a gap of approximately 1½ inches ( 4cm) on the side of the pumpkin through which to insert the stuffing.

STEP 6:

When you come to the top of the head of the felt pumpkin secure the piece of green felt to represent the pumpkin stalk (or hat) for the character at the top of the head, again using small stitches to secure it to the edge of the pumpkin.

STEP 7:

Stuff the pumpkin carefully, putting in small bits at a time and using a chopstick or the back of a pencil to push the stuffing towards the edges. Once sufficiently full, continue stitching to close the gap.

and here’s how it looks from the back

Your little pumpkin character is complete and can be used as a table décor piece, hung from a cord over a door handle, or strung together with a few other pumpkin characters for a doorway or fireplace garland. Once you have made one felt pumpkin you’ll want to make more – it’s a great project to do with kids as they learn to sew – and the fun part is seeing their sewing efforts on display for Halloween! If you loved making our pumpkin character then please like and subscribe to have more fun projects delivered straight to your inbox. We would love to see what you do with the pumpkin character so please share your photos in the comments section.

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