Celia, from Sydney, Australia, emailed me this wonderful tip for holding the thread while sculpting the pumpkin. Thank You Celia for sharing!!!
Deb,
Loooove your pumpkins !! I've made 7 today, 3 small, 4 large, out of
wrinkled orange polarfleece that I was going to toss out ! Pretty
good recycling, eh ? They're going to be strung across a stage at the
Halloween disco.
One tip, I adapted a technique I've used making pincushions. When I've
finished sewing the top closed, I sewed a button securely to the top of
the pumpkin. Then I was able to use continuous embroidery thread,
twisting it around and under the button at the top and going back around
the pumpkin etc. The button was then covered up with the stem. (If you
want pincushion instructions for a future newsletter, let me know, they
were very easy). I embroidered the fronts of the large pumpkins with
facial details cut out from black polarfleece. All in all, 7 pumpkins in
3 hours, and an absolute success. Haven't had this much fun since the
basketball pattern ! ;-)
Thanks again, really appreciated this one.
Cheers,
Celia from Sydney, Australia
