Ticking Stripe Pumpkins

 I remember when I first fell in love with pillow ticking. 

My sister and I were on a long distance road trip from New York to Wyoming with my Aunt Janice. 

There was a small feather pillow in the back seat of her Camero. I adopted it. Needless to say, after two weeks of my napping and drooling on it, she gave it to me. 

I still have feathers from that original pillow in one of the pillows around here. 

I love ticking stripe.

 Nothing says Farmhouse or Cottage style like a ticking pillow.

I saw an image from Debra @ Common Ground Blog.
Her blog is adorable.
See my Pinterest board featuring Debra's blog here.
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She had a pumpkin made out of pillow ticking.
Her pumpkin was made by a darling Etsy shop called Timewashed.  
Get yours at her shop. 

I had just bought some ticking and then I saw her image on Pinterest. 
It was perfect for a neutral little pumpkin to be featured in some fall vignettes. 

Y'all know how I feel about too much orange. 

This touch on the squirrel and stem is just enough.

I stitched this pumpkin up before I left for work the other day.
It literally took about 5 minutes.

All you need is a dinner plate, fabric, a needle and thread and some pillow stuffing.

A real stem saved from a decaying pumpkin fit the bill.
It was worth having a rotting pumpkin around for weeks and weeks to get this, let me tell you. 
Can you sense a little sarcasm here?
Y'all are so smart. 

I used a different technique to make one for the little shelf in the living room.
 The pie bird was a find at the Le Creuset Outlet.
He's been chilling since January waiting for his debut.

The hydrangeas were an eBay purchase.

One more week and it will be time for our social link up party.

This is perfect for anyone trying to build a social media platform. You don't have to have a blog. 
It will allow others to see your work so that you can grow your followers list and expand your outreach.   
Just copy and paste the address into the Inlinkz widget that will be on the bottom of my blog post next Sunday at 4:00 p.m. I will walk you through it!
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 That is all for now.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
Katie 

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