Recycled Blue Jean Denim Pumpkins
Aren't these recycled denim pumpkins adorable?! And they are not hard to make! No sewing involved which is the best part! I took a little bit of several different stuffed pumpkin ideas and made these my own. The best part is that these recycled denim pumpkins were almost FREE!
First I started with the leg of a pair of recycled denim jeans.
These jeans had a little bit of stretch in them, I'm not sure if that makes any difference but these did.
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I cut opened the leg of the pants and straightened out the shape so it was a long rectangle.
I gathered the end of the fabric by just folding it back and forth.
I secured the gather with a 6" zip tie.
I did the same with the other end of the fabric.
Next, I tucked the gathered ends into the middle of the fabric.
Keeping with my free and recycled theme today, I cut open an old pillow to use the stuffing for my pumpkin.
If you don't have an old pillow you can use Poly-fil.
I filled the pumpkin with the pillow stuffing making sure to tuck it into all the folds.
I made sure my pumpkin was plump and round.
Next, I closed the seam with hot glue.
Adding the hot glue about an inch at a time, I closed the seam being careful not to burn my fingers.
You could also use a low temperature glue gun or one that does both, which helps.
Once my pumpkin was closed I grabbed about a 5' length of thin, strong twine and folded it in half to find the center.
I wrapped the twine around my pumpkin pulling it tight enough to create pumpkin ribs.
As I wrapped the twine I criss crossed it on the top then back to the bottom.
I wrapped the twine until I had 8 sections on my pumpkin then tied it off on the bottom.
Now it was time to decorate the top of my denim pumpkin.
I used a circle of hot glue to attach a little bit of Spanish moss then more hot glue to attach a stick from my yard that I cut to size.
My backyard stick stem is cut to about 1.5"-2" long.
I added a little wired pip berry wire as a tendril on the top of my pumpkin.
Now to add a different spin on my pumpkins, and you can certainly leave off this part, I added hot glue to 2 wood slices and attached my pumpkins.
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The wood slices gave my pumpkins a solid base.
I think they are adorable and the best part is that they didn't cost a cent because the decorations on top of the pumpkin were leftover from previous dollar store pumpkin projects.
You could do similar using recycled drop cloth fabric as well!
READ MORE: RECYCLED DENIM PROJECTS
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