Fancy Little Pumpkins

Hello friends!
Can you believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner?

I can barely wrap my mind around the fact that 2014 is nearly over...wow!

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We all have seen those delightful stuffed pumpkins all over blogland and Pinterest...

...you may even have made some yourself.

The first time I laid eyes on them, I knew wanted to try my hand at making a few. 

So, here it is almost time for Christmas decor and I'm just now getting these little guys made!

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I am not including a tutorial since there are so many out there.
It's basically a circle of fabric, any size you choose, stuffed with beans and batting...
...hand stitched around the edge, pulled tight, secured then the stem hot glued on. 

I started collecting pumpkin stems wherever I could.

You know those huge cardboard boxes at Walmart with pumpkins in them?

If you are lucky enough to find one empty, you will probably find a few.
So I made pumpkins for the stems that I found...four...and I have lots of fabric left.
Maybe I'll make more earlier in the season next year and have a giveaway!!

I wanted to make them all in different shades of velvet

 so I started searching the Goodwill Stores for whatever items I could find for the fabric.

This was not as easy as you might think.

Any other time I would have found many things velvet-ish...

...but we all know what happens when we begin to search specifically for something, right?
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So, after several trips in about as many weeks,

I came across some things that I thought would make pretty little pumpkins.

The green and brown ones were created from velvet turtle neck shirts.

Even though I would have never worn them,

(I don't do turtlenecks plus they were in a size I haven't seen since junior high),

I still have this aversion to cutting up a perfectly good garment.

Well, I quickly got over it and started whacking away!

I really liked the colors and am pretty pleased how they turned out.

The paisley print had been a scarf in it's former life and the other from an orange lace shirt...

...one that I actually could wear...if I wore orange.

I don't do orange nor do I know why...even though pumpkins wear it very well.

Maybe that's the reason why I don't...I might just resemble one if I did!

Anyway, I thought the lace would really make a pretty pumpkin...and well, it's orange...

...how appropriate.

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Then I fancied them up a bit.

I had seen others that had been "blinged out" so I played around with some vintage jewelry.

I thought the jewelry added some elegance to them...



...but decided I preferred them bling-less in the setting that I chose for them.

So...have you bought your turkey yet???

I'm sharing this with Judith at Mosaic Mondays.