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Velour Pumpkins

11/14/2014

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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 . .
1. Use a good quality thread when basting, I used some old thread and it broke when I was gathering/pulling the thread up to gather the sides of the material.
2. Do not baste close to the edge of the material, baste a good 1/4" in or even more, that way if you run into any problems the material will not ravel into your stitches. Nothing ever is quite as easy as it sounds or looks the first time I make things.
3. There are many things to use for the stems, such as sticks, actual stems that have dried from real pumpkins or made with material. I actually had made pumpkin topiaries from faux pumpkins (see here) so I saved the faux stems and used them for these velvet pumpkins. Worked beautifully! I think I will probably buy some pumpkins on sale at Michaels or Hobby Lobby, if I can find them cheap enough and use the stems for velvet pumpkins next year.
4. I did stitch under the stem from side to side to make the stem fit better, this was after I had put glue on the stem. The glue will get on your needle after doing this so the needle will be ruined. Time to get new ones anyway.
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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.
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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.
This pumpkin has some moss glued around the stem.
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KC the Kitchen Chopper link
11/16/2014 03:05:36 am

beautiful and elegant. Thanks for sharing at TheWeekendSocial. Hope you'll vome visit again Thursday 9:00 PM EST. http://www.theKitchenChopper.com Pinned!

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Jonni
11/16/2014 11:13:10 am

Thanks for the nice comment.

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Karren Haller link
11/16/2014 12:25:20 pm

Thanks for stopping by today. I love your pumpkins, they look so rich in the velvet fabric!!! You have such a lovely blog to visit!!! Hope to see you often, have a fabulous week!!!
Karren@Oh My Heartsie Girl

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Katherines Corner link
11/17/2014 11:40:28 pm

these are lovely and my favorite color too. Hugs!

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Jann Olson
11/18/2014 01:13:43 pm

I love these! I have wanted to try making some velour or velvet pumpkins, but haven't yet. Thanks for sharing them with SYC.
hugs,
Jann

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Jonni
11/19/2014 07:58:55 am

Thank you Jann!

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Laura Irion link
11/19/2014 12:15:21 pm

Thank you so much for linking up to the Found & Foraged party-- It was great to have you!!!! Please come again on Saturday! xo, Laura

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Kyla @ HouseOfHipsters link
11/21/2014 06:39:47 am

I still just LOVE this! Thank you for linking up at Found & Foraged! We hope to see you again Saturday night at 8PM! Kyla @ http://houseofhipsters.com/

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Jonni Millington
11/21/2014 06:57:46 am

OMGosh!! Did I link them twice? I'm so sorry.

Jonni

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