AUTUMN: Make 'Bumpy' Pumpkins With Loopy Yarn!

I've been so dang busy lately, I haven't been able to to create ANYTHING...
but when I found a hank of loopy green yarn in my stash, I had an idea,
and in a matter of minutes two elements became pumpkins -
so here ya' go, friends!

Continue reading for an easy-peasy tutorial that will help you
make a fun version of 'warty pumpkins' using loopy yarn...

Here's how I made them...

Materials:

loopy yarn - in any color you prefer

two round glass elements - mine are a glass lamp globe + a glass vase

If those glass elements look familiar, they are from a past project...

They appeared in the Fall 2024 issue

of Country Sampler's Farmhouse Style Magazine, 

as new versions of my Original Glass Globe Pumpkins from 2011.

(post linked below)

I found the loopy green yarn at a thrift store, btw.

Method:

1. We'll start with the smaller ribbed glass lamp globe. 
2. Loop the yarn around the top edge and insert a loop through another, to secure it.(Mine has a raised edge - if yours doesn't, use a drop of hot glue to hold the loop in place at the top of the vase you are using.)
3. Continue wrapping the yarn around the vase, as tightly as you can.
4. Each layer of yarn should nestle closely to the last one, 
so the vase doesn't show through the yarn.
5. + 6. The completed yarn-wrapped container, bottom & top.

I repeated this method with the second, larger vase:

Because this vase had a tall neck on it, I didn't cover it.

I was originally going to leave it as is with the twine showing,

but then when I had to come up with a 'stem' for the small one, 
I had another good idea:

I grabbed some of my small terra cotta garden pots
(which were also used in the photos for the magazine shoot)
and used two tiny ones as 'stems'!

They were the perfect scale for this size pumpkins 
AND one covered the twine-wrapped vase neck perfectly.

Then I nestled the pumpkins into a pot and a saucer...
and then I added more (because more is... MORE!)
as props for these photos:

I kid you not, creating these took less than ten minutes.
Two minutes to arrange them, five more to photograph them. 
It's an almost effortless way to create some cute pumpkins for your decor!

...and then it took me AN HOUR to edit photos and draft this post!
LOL. That's always the most intensive part of blogging.

But I do it for you, and hope you enjoy this idea and will give it a try!

Previous Related Content:

Published! New Glass Globe Pumpkins

My Original Glass Globe Pumpkins - 2011

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