Cornucopia of Creativity: DIY Fall Flannel Pumpkin {The V Spot}

• cheesy, fake pumpkin
• old flan­nel shirt
• flo­ral pins
• glue gun
• jute

1. Gather your mate­ri­als. Grab some twine or rope to cover the stem, and cut the fab­ric into three strips.  I’m not going to give you mea­sure­ments… just eye­ball it.

2. I needed 3 pieces to cover the pump­kin. Make sure they are long enough to cover the bot­tom of your pump­kin and then some.  You can always trim it up later.

3. Sort of pleat the fab­ric around the stem of the pump­kin.  You should be able to push the pin right through the pumpkin.

4. Take the next piece of fab­ric and slightly fold over the edge so that you have a fin­ished look­ing edge.  Secure it on the next third of the pump­kin, mak­ing sure it over­laps the first piece of fab­ric just a little.

5. Kindly ignore the messy nail pol­ish and the fact that I’m way over-due for a man­i­cure. Fire up your glue gun.

6. Play with the fab­ric a lit­tle, pulling it down to the bot­tom of the pump­kin and make lit­tle pleats there.  You want the fab­ric to be pulled tight down the sides, and not loose or puffy any­where.  When you fig­ure out where you want it, go ahead and glue into place.  Trim fab­ric after each sec­tion is glued down.

7. Care­fully glue your twine in a cir­cu­lar fash­ion, so that the flo­ral pins are cov­ered and the stem is covered.

That’s it.  

Just a cou­ple of bucks and you have a sweet flan­nel cov­ered pump­kin!  Cheap and easy!

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