Like a lot of people, it's very rare for me to get excited for upcoming holidays as early in the season as craft stores (and malls) do. BUT, for whatever reason, this year I am SO in the mood, and am already gearing up for cold weather crafting!!
I had been feeling really crafting lazy for most of the second half of the summer...but the recent change in weather and the fact I can smell camp fires again on a regular basis has made me antsy to get back on the sewing machine.
So I thought of making my mom some stuffed, scented pumpkins and wanted to get started early enough so she could decorate with them this year. I knew I wanted Halloween prints, and I've always had good luck with holiday prints at Hancock fabrics. I love how authentic my spider print turned out to be---check out the little fella who ran down my real pumpkin during the photo shoot:
I'm also not well versed on sewing spheres, so I used this AWEsome tutorial from the Purl Bee for the basic ball, then added my own doodads to the top.
Well it never occurred to me that my resident pumpkin patch was also ready for the Halloween season. Since I didn't plant the vine, I had no idea what type of pumpkins I had, so I tried picking one up and it came right off in my hands. Turns out my pumpkins are wee, but I love them.
Hope my mom likes them!
