Sweater Pedestal Pumpkins
I've seen this cute hot glue technique used on several projects lately so I thought I'd give it a try on a pumpkin.
I'm using a couple of Dollar Tree pumpkins and 2 Dollar Tree candle sticks for the pedestals.
This is an adorable and easy project that can be done in many different patterns.
Take a look...
I began this project by drawing a knit design on a little pumpkin with a pencil, it insured that my rows were even and straight.
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I'm using a small glue gun for this project but I don't think that matters. Some glue guns have thinner tips and I think a thin tip might work even better than the one I used.
I went over the pencil lines on my pumpkin with the hot glue.
Once I was finished with my pattern, I glued the pumpkin onto the candle stick pedestal.
There were a lot of glue strings so I used a heat gun to quickly melt most of them off. You can also use a hairdryer for this.
Now it was time to paint. I removed the tiny stem that came with the pumpkin then used Waverly Chalk Paint in the color Plaster. I dabbed the thick paint onto the pumpkin design giving it a little extra texture like a sweater would have.
The second pumpkin I did in the same way only I made dots all over the pumpkin to look like a pom pom sweater. I heated the strings off then used the same paint to dab 2 coats all over the pumpkin.
A few years back I did a project using an actual old sweater on a pumpkin. It was one of my favorite Fall projects.
Back to the pumpkins... Once both pumpkins were dry I added a real pumpkin stem to the top with more hot glue.
Pumpkin stems can be saved from your pumpkins year to year or if you have the opportunity to visit a pumpkin farm where you pick your own, the stems are all over the place!
It was that easy to turn a simple Dollar Tree pumpkin into a textured beauty with a real stem!!
Lastly, I used a piece of thick jute to tie a large knot on the pedestal under the pumpkin.
You could use a bow or just a line of jute instead like the photos above.
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