Crafting Fabric Pumpkins

Hello every one. 

I hope you are having a wonderful Friday.

Whoo hoo!

I have so many fun projects planned for this weekend.

Now that I am back teaching school full time...

 I don't have as much time for crafting and blogging. 

Labor Day Weekend was all about crafting for 

my sister- in -law, Amy and I while the rest of the family enjoyed the lake.

I wanted to make the most of my time off last weekend and Amy had to work on her nodders,

It seemed like a plan to load up the sewing machine and craft supplies and head out of town for the weekend.

I have mentioned the nodders and

how we got them at First Monday Trade Days.

I have been working on those and will reveal a couple of my them in another post. 

So,

Amy and I ran to the Walmart in town because her Walmart doesn't carry fabric and she didn't want to spend 8 bucks a yard for calico at another retailer! 

I thought all Walmart store had a fabric department.

I picked up some fun stuff too.

Here is our work station.

We pretty much commandeered the kitchen table.

It was nice and big and the light was good.

We worked on pumpkins and owls.

I will give more detailed instructions about those later.

Fabric owls

So far my pumpkins have been very smushy and casual.

Fabric pumpkins

Not at all like real pumpkins. I am not patient enough for that.

Amy wanted hers to be more tailored.

 She is much more patient than I am.

We came up with a pattern to make the wedges of the pumpkin and she went from there.

She used all of her calicoes and got this cutie.

Walmart Fabric

She also combined calico and  burlap for a casual look.

Finally, she made three identical pumpkins for her nodders.

All her cute pumpkins will be the foundation for her fall decorating at the lake.

So fun.

Are you not just wild about her old silver? She found that on one of our antiquing jaunts.

I went with white, black and lime for something I hadn't done before.

I had been seeing all these cute white pumpkins on Pinterest.

One of my fall vignettes will be this color scheme.

We worked for the better part two days 

and these are our treasures.

 Banke's Owl

I tried making a raven. The first two tries were a complete fail. My niece called one of them a dove. 

??

I will have to come up with a new story;

"The Legend Of the Halloween Dove."

It will be a best seller just like my; 

"Legend of the Christmas Cockroach."

I'll have to tell you that one later.

It's a long story involving my foot in my mouth.

We had a great time crafting. 

Craft Mania 2012 was tons of fun!

Katie
Linking with,
Funky Junk Interiors 
Pinning Party @ Debbie Doos
Nifty Thrifty Things
1929 Charmer Blog
Craft O Maniac 
Mighty Crafty Mondays